At least that is what the guy in sporting goods just told me.

I DOUBT IT.

Well that's a reliable source...

Me too. They are one of the largest firearms dealers in the country. Maybe that location as I have seen several that have.

GreggH

If true...GOOD!
LGS 100%, and I'll gladly pay the difference.

They apparently stopped selling ammo for “assault style weapons’ in 2019, whatever that is, but all I ever see in stock is 350 Legend.

I couldn’t tell you what WalMart sells. I barely remember what the inside of one looks like.

Walmart, sporting goods stores, or just about any business that is started by folks with a passion for (whatever) eventually gets sold to some BigCorp and run by rootless cosmopolitans with an MBA who have no heart or passion for the original venture.

And then sold off to vampire capitalist venture capital pirates who loot and rape it.

If it is a sporting goods chain, it will morph into a sporting CLOTHING chain because the hand-rubbing bean-counters know f-all about guns or playing sports or gear. Heck, they HATE the people who do. But they do have contacts in the garment district, so lets devote 90% of floor space to sporty-ish clothes from China-stan and put a few items used for sport along the walls. (Any number of sporting goods chains)

If it is a firearms manufacturer, they will have it take on a mountain of debt, cash out for themselves, and then kick the raped and eviscerated corpse of a company on to the market (Remington).

Walmart is more amenable to globohomo capitalist shenanigans given its generalist department store nature, but we saw how its heart was murdered after the Waltons took their payout and hired the usual suspects from NYC to run it while the surviving Waltons live lives of dissipation. Part of that heart was providing flyover folks with stuff flyover folks like to buy. Like guns and made in America items.

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they quit selling ammo.

I sorely wish there were options to Walmutt for just about anything. But don't hold your breath.

They've been tooting that horn for years and years.
BFD if they do. The selection of guns and ammo they
have locally sucks anyhow.
Leaves more for the LGS to pick up.
Would rather not buy from them to begin with

They might think they’d be better off filling those shelves with something they can stock and make money on, except they have many empty shelves to do that with. I doubt it’s the case, they’ll get anything they can sell right now.

Walmart sucks but I hate to see guns and gun culture sanitized from our biggest retailers in an effort to make guns look fringe.

hell, 99% of the time the ones around here don't have schit and then when they do, ya gotta call elmer from paints to come over and open the friggen cabinet. takes 20 minutes to get there and then takes him 10 minutes to go through his keys. whole time he's muttering under his breath.

You mean like this?





to this?



and then this?

Back before the pandemic, when Wal-Mart still had ammo, you could buy a box of 12 or 20 gauge Remington Express shotgun shells for 12.97. The LGS a half mile down the road wanted 21.95. Wal-Marts price on a box of Win. Power Point or Rem. Core-Lokt in .243, .270; .308 or.30-06 was 18.97 while the LGS wanted 27.95. I never have liked the gun shop or it's owner that much.

I thought Walmart already stopped selling firearms. This morning a kid at work said he bought a Savage axis this weekend from Walmart. I was surprised

Eddie Bauer is another one that completely changed direction, and not for the better.

Sears, Montgomery Wards, Woolworths, K-Mart, and Target are also large retailers who've migrated out of the gun-selling business, and yet, gun manufacturers have flourished. I'm 47 grew up in a town of ~50K and we had all of those retailers at some point, and, all of them had gun depts that I can remember visiting.

I've looked a WM in the past for an occasional 4 pack of 20 gauge shotgun shells(that I don't load) for 20 bucks. Or the standard pack of 550 22 long rifles for $19.99.

I honestly think that any shooter beyond that level should have looked beyond them some years ago.

If WM quits selling these things, or things beyond that, should it matter?

Asking.

Yep. From ten gauges to twinks, brought to you from the financialization of American commerce.

What's a twink?

Talked to a dealer in Vermont on Saturday re: ammo and he mentioned that a box of walmart ammo has a WM on it vs other ammo does not. He claims it’s made slightly cheaper than everywhere else. Interesting comment. I never bought any.

Pretty much the way it is here also.

I'm pretty sure Wally World made this decision once before about a decade ago. It lasted about 2 years before they brought it all back IIRC.

actually might be a good thing for Ammo companies...Walmart is notoriously hard on the supply chain pricing..
I would love to see more mom and pop hunting shops come back.

You all mean the same mom and pop that tell ya they aint got schit all the time.
But yet are able to pay 4 or 5 full time family and friend employee's thru all this.

The same mom and pop that sell all their firearms and ammo they get in on gunbroker under accounts not associated with their shop????

Or do you guys mean the mom and pop shop that buys ammo and guns at walmart and charges at least a 50% mark up.
Even more when bought on brick seek clearance.


Those mom and pops or mee maw and pee paw shops ???


Some of you guys are extremely naive on what has been going on.

Facts

Wal-Mart has handled their firearms business in odd ways over the years.

They have sold Weatherbys, closed them out, brought them back, and closed them out again.

In 2016 WM closed out Ruger Americans for under $200. In 2018 basic Weatherby Vanguards were closed out for under $200 in some places, $250 around Omaha. In 2020 they closed out their Savage Edges for as little as $125 in some places. I bought 2 of them 'cause the price was so low.

WM has moveda huge volume of rifle and shotgun ammo over the years and although they don't have much ammo on their shelves, they have bumped the prices on Winchester centerfire ammo by between $5 and $10 per box of 20 rounds. Just last week I noticed that Winchester Deerseason XP 30-06 was selling for $29 per box of 20 rounds, up from around $22 a years or so ago. As long as they can make a profit and keep their investors happy, I doubt that they will stop selling ammo and accessories in fly over country.

not mee maw and pee paw??? wtf, is nothing sacred?

Best and most accurate post of the day.......

The same mee and pee paw shops that use the same distributors in the area as the shops around town that have ammo and guns???

Mee maw and pee paw playing da game...........

fugh em !!! I have not been in a walmart for 7 yrs ! dont intend to ever go in there again ! they do nothing but ruin every neighborhood they bust into. on top of driving out every mom and pop shop around just cause the great american dumbazzez are too stupid to support american companies. so lets just get all our chit in a tangled mess out on the coast so everyone can fret and waite for their china crap to get here !!! and then the trash moves in around them cause walmarts is easy pickens . jmho!

Our Walmarts haven't had much for a year or two. If they do occasionally have a box of ammo you Hage to look all over for an employee that then has to look all over for a different employee that had the keys. Always seems to take at least 30 minutes which isn't worth the wait fir a 3 box limit.

I miss the old days when they occasionally marked down guns and then you had to fight with the staff to get one. I still have s new 11-87 12 gauge I got on a clearance about 3 years ago. I should have put it on gun broker last winter when they were selling well.

Bb

Fed auto match .22 325 rds went from 18.97 to 21.47 last week here.
Not just walmart but everywhere ammo is inching up again.
Went down mar to early aug.
Joey,s little Russian import ban driving up schit again across all ammo markets.

Honk for Joey....

Western_Juniper

A lot of things that WM sells are made to WM's specs, but I don't believe that U.S. ammunition manufacturers would go to the trouble/expense of changing over produciton lines to make a differentiated product specifically for WM. WM is notoriously difficult for manufacturers to work with, because they want manufacturers to cut their wholesale prices nearly every year. The problem for manufacturers is that they let WM become such a large buyer of their products that loss of the WM accounts would cause them major financial problems, so they dance to WM''s tune.

Plus 1

Fuch Walmart.

Walmart was given essential status privileges and most of their competition forced out of business last year. They made record profits along with limp wristed jeffrie bozos.

May those corporations go out of business and brick/mortar stores reopen next year.

Funny how things change. Used to be a Whatamart regular for groceries, garden stuff, small hardware. Been in one once since the Plague began and walked right back out because they didn’t have the garden stuff I needed at the peak of the season. Looking back, I realize what a giant time-waster shopping in that store was. Too big to shop efficiently, constantly moving stuff around so I had to search for it, and then the long checkout lines. “Associates” huddled up here and there goofing off, and blocking aisles. The sporting goods department was ill-stocked and understaffed. Their online store is the worst. Half the stuff isn’t even theirs, and the search is just awful.

No plans to go back.

I hope they stop selling guns and ammo

Guarantee they won’t stop selling Chinese crap.

Within the last month I have purchased two guns for a heck of a lot less from Walmart then you could get at a dealer within 50 miles of me. A Savage A22 lr. One of the most accurate 22’s I own and a Henry h001 just as good as they sale at high dollar gun shops!
Savage was $224 and the Henry was $278

WGAF

We all like good deals like that.
Just keep in mind that they were pioneers at destroying the american business economy and placing the industries here into the hands of communist billionaires. Slavery provides our cheap goods from commie labor.

Concur

It’s good for a poor guy like me I can’t afford those $1500 and $2000 guns like you guys buy! Small town lgs’s try to rip you a new one like bend over and take it dry kind of thing!

Right

Prices got ridiculous the past year. I'm not judging you for the good deal. Just passing along to the younger generation what some older have seen when there were half a dozen or more competing shops around town and good paying jobs out of high school.

Back when Sam Walton was alive he was still doing mostly made in America products. Then his kids got ahold of it and now it is exactly what you said!

Things Sure have changed since then.
Those 22s were a great deal and ammo affordable.
Maybe your 22 is featured on this guy's channel. It's pretty entertaining.

[video:youtube]https://m.youtube.com/c/22plinkster/search?query=Savage%2022[/video]

Glad I got all I want/need

I won’t step foot in some Meemaw rip off joint. Not when their fat ass retard son and daughter in laws were buying up all the ammo in Walmart.

Then selling it to fools for triple markup

Haha, “it’s so worth it, I’d suck Meemaw’s clit just so could support local business”

I haven't been in a Wal-Mart since the last ammo shortage. Gave up on them when they never had 22 rimfire ammo. Used to buy the Federal bulk packs of 500 for $6 back in the '90's. Wal-Mart sold mostly made in the USA products back then.

Walmart isn't the problem. If the Supreme Court upholds the 2nd Amendment for all 50 States, they'll get right back into it without missing a beat. The problem is the Corporate dicks at Vista Outdoors don't believe in the 2nd Amendment themselves and they're irritated that Americans want to buy ammunition and primers. Just listen to Jason Vanderprick last year complaining that he's tired of getting hate mail.

A pro-2A ammunition company would be ramping up production capacity for as many as 20 to 30 million new gun owners and backing 50-State Constitutional carry all the way. Instead, they've been adding zero capacity through one of the longest and most severe shortages in history. They know there is no competition and they can take as long as they want just to fill the backlog. The President of Federal/Speer/CCI division comes on his Youtube channel to say, "I'm tired."

Even if a foreign competitor were to begin to gain market share, they'd just lobby to have the liberal administration expand the ban of imports so they can continue to suppress the market. I'd rather buy Chinese primers than primers from the domestic Communists.

Haven't been in a Chinamart for years. Didn't know they still sold guns or ammo.

Never liked going to Wal-Martinez.

Be careful what you wish for. Guns were once "mainstream commerce" in America.

All those nationwide chains mentioned previously, like Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward, Kmart, Western Auto and many more, once sold firearms, ammo and hunting gear. All quit selling firearms and ammo years ago.

Few of them remain in business. Our last area Sears is closing this fall. Boscov's is a fairly big chain here in PA, that once sold firearms and hunting gear. They dropped them years ago and nearly went bankrupt within a few years. Their aging founder came out of retirement to save the chain. I haven't spent a dime in one since they dropped firearms.

Point is, the less "mainstream" firearms become, the more likelihood that the demise of the ownership of firearms will continue to exist over the long haul. The Left continues to succeed in vilifying guns, to the point that major retailers have abandoned them as products they wish to identify with.

Never bought a firearm from Walmart. Most of my guns were bought from LGS operations and private sales. Have bought one helluva lot of ammo from Walmart, based on price and selection. Our local Wally's still has firearms in the cases. Ammo, not so much lately?

So you want Walmart to continue to sell firearms but don't shop there or buy their inventory to support your idea.

This is a uniquely American internet position.

In WI they'd be Fleet/Farm, Walgreens, Woodmans, and Scheels. They're all closer to me than Wal-mart, and while Woodmans is even more ghetto, they're food selection is way better.

The only one that I'm aware of is the Federal shotshells that come in a maroon box, rather than blue. I don't think anything is different except for the packaging.

Those WalMart only shotshells are made from the shot and powder they sweep up from the factory floor.

I know lots of folks shoot them, but if you test and see the difference yourself, and it matters, you'll probably spend a bit more on shotshells...

"This is a uniquely American internet position".


Don't care if someone buys a firearm at Walmart. I haven't "had to" yet, because I've found what I wanted at gun shops, or from private sales. Most of my guns were bought used, many of them from shops I have had personal relationships with over many years. Bought one rifle from our local Kmart over 30 years ago, when they had that rifle on sale.

Last three new guns were bought at two LGSs I've dealt with for decades. Shop owners have been friends for that long. When the Ruger American rim fires came out, none of the chains had any in stock A LGS I've dealt with for 40 years, got one in and I bought it for less than the chains were selling them for, when they eventually began to stock them

Per the rumors about substandard ammo at WM, they've sold 550 count Fed. Value Packs of 22LR for years. Like the shotshells mentioned, they are also in maroon boxes, not blue. Same 22LR ammo comes in 525 Value Packs in blue boxes, elsewhere. Have literally shot multiple thousands of rounds of that 22 ammo from WM over the years.

Whatever... Those were never their strong suit..

I looked in ours yesterday. The only centerfire ammo they had was 223 and 9 mm. Ours recently added a reloading section.

the local WalMart stores stopped all gun and ammo sales right before the 2020 election.

Schit it must be true then.

The only ammo I can remember buying at walmart was a 100 round pack of 20ga #8 shot.

I did buy an absolutely junk Hatfield shotgun there about 3-4 years ago for $69. It was priced $60 too high as far as I can tell.

Naïve? No. I have the ability to walk away from ridiculously priced items. But I would rather $5 more at my local shop than buy it at walmart. I could give 2 chits if walmart stops selling guns and ammo. Or leaves town altogether.

Well...it is a nice clit,

Our local Wal-Mart has an area for guns and ammo. They usually have eight or ten long guns but never more than a couple boxes of shotgun shells and no other ammo. CAL Ranch is a good alternative to walmart but they dont have groceries. They always have a large selection of guns, ammo, hunting, archery and camping supplies. Reloading supplies are hit and miss. Kinda like a high end Tractor Supply. The CAL Ranch store in Sierra Vista is a nice store.

They indoctrinate their employees with critical race theory now, so the guns have to go.

LOL...!! rene be battin' clean-up for the Wally World team today....... Surprise, surprise............

As with most things, not all "mom and pop" gun shops are bad places. In my realm, I know of three LGS that have very good competitive prices and an inventory that a Wally World "gun shop" patron would drool over. Store fronts that don't try to compete with the competition don't last long around here.

One of the "bad mom and pop" shops had a sign on the door a few years back that stated (paraphrased). "We don't price match with Walmart, so don't come in here just to ask. For your shopping convenience, Wal Mart is just down the road". They did then and still do have a brisk customer travel into the business. Why? Good prices and a good inventory.

During the present and recent pass situation, none of them have gouged prices on what inventory they were able to get. Now all three are steadily returning to a more normal look with a decent inventory of items you likely won't ever find at Wal Mart. And WM is still pfishing their customers for what they should or shouldn't sell.

I usually hit the one in Show Low when I pass through.

Soft yellow cake with a cream filling.

Looked in your what? Walmart? I thought WM stopped selling handgun and EBR ammo a while back. Maybe that’s just a local thing, but I thought it was nation wide.

Bull Crap-----Lots of ATA trap shooters like my self shoot Walmart Shells---whether it's Federal Top Gun, Remington Gun Club, Winchester Super Target , Winchester Universal or Federal field or target ammo---they break clay pigeons just fine. I'm an A shooter in singles & shoot from the 26 yardline in caps. These days you shoot what you can find. FYI at the last registered ATA shoot----My score was 99 in singles & 95 in handicap.

Walmart also sales Winchester AA's, Federal Gold Metals and Remington Nitro's.

Right around mid 1981 J.C. Penney decided they would literally drop everything and go straight for the yuppie trade. I know because my late wife worked there. She called me one morning and told me what was happening. She said they were clearing out all the guns for their cost and as she was an employee, as her husband entitled to another 10% off. Came home with tow Remington 700s, an ADL and BDL in 30-06, and two 30-30s, a Model 94 Winchester and a Model 336 Marlin. Total price for all four guns was $350 IIRC. I gave the ADL to my stepson for his birthday and a friend wanted the Marlin so let him have if for just enough to give me a small profit. It was still less than what they sold at retain.
The upshot of Penney's decision was and still it this. They're fighting to keep their heads above water and not doing a very good job of it. Serves them right. I guess the yuppies didn't flock in in droves like their bean counters though they would. Woke hurts.
Paul B.

Cant sell what's not in stock

If this is actually a fact it raises a question. If they fail to take a stand in support of the 2A and continue to be a major outlet for chinese should we initiate a campfire boycott?

LOL


mike r

Our WM hasn't sold handgun and 223 ammo since late summer or fall of 2020, which is when they sold out what was in the supply pipeline. Pretty sure it was a nationwide decision, so if someone just saw 9mm and 223 in a Walmart, they must not sell much ammo, to have that in stock at this late date?