Walmart to Curtail Ammunition Sales After Store Shootings
- Retailer will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammo
- Company asks customers to stop openly carrying firearms
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Walmart Inc., for years among America’s biggest sellers of handguns and assault-style weapons, promised Tuesday to stop selling bullets for some of them after two deadly shootings in its stores.
The company will discontinue sales of .223 caliber ammunition and other sizes that can be used in assault-style weapons after it sells through its inventory commitments. It will stop selling handguns in Alaska, the only state where it still sells them, and won’t offer bullets for them anywhere after its stocks are depleted. And it’s “respectfully requesting” that shoppers refrain from openly carrying their firearms in its stores.