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Walmart Didn’t Solve Its Gun Problem This Week
The retail giant faces fair questions about how much that past relationship with guns should continue to inform its present.
So long as Walmart sells guns, it will have a problem.
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Walmart Inc.’s problem with guns isn’t about the ones in video games.
The past week brought that into sharp focus, first when its El Paso, Texas, store was the scene of a mass shooting that left more than 20 people dead. Even as the weekend turned more deadly and attention shifted toward a second incident in Dayton, Ohio, scrutiny remained on the retailer, which plays a role in nurturing gun culture by being among the nation’s largest sellers of firearms.