Another Walmart tin thread

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I got two more 112 tins in Long Island NY today ( last two they had ) I have 8 now, but the first Walmart I went to stopped selling firearms and the girl told me ALL Walmarts will stop selling guns next year!!!!! I went to the next Walmart about three miles away and bought a Remington 870 Magnum 12 ga with a rifled barrel for $284.00....where will you get those gun prices when Walmart caves in to the anti gunners next year? When will they cut back on knives next?
 
I am not a big Walmart fan for how they treat workers and kill small businesses, but I always gave them credit for having a good sporting goods department. If they stop selling guns and ammo and cut back on knives they will be doing sportsmen all over this country a great disservice. I was amazed the first time I shopped at a Target and found little to no sporting goods- no guns, no knives, no fishing Poles!!! Why pick the name Target and not sell guns???? lol
 
I live on Long Island (Nassau County) also and all Walmarts in Nassau County do not sell guns, ammo, or gun safes. Tom, you must live in Suffolk County where I have to drive to buy my ammo. Well, I guess next year I will have to rely on Dick's Sporting goods for my knives and ammo. What a sad state of affairs and the Dems aren't even sworn in yet.
 
buddah88 I live in Levittown, Nassau, but as you stated I have to go to Suffolk to shop at a Walmart that carries guns and ammo. The Kmarts in Nassau use to sell guns, but the one by me closed.
 
Springfield, NJ Wallyworld has less and less knives... no guns either. I am out of luck :( , I really want a holiday tin knife.
 
Wal-Mart sells shotguns/rifles??? :eek: Not around here... :(

I remember Sears used to sell hunting rifles/shotguns...the Ted Williams brand, I believe...(don't recall who actually made them)...no more...

My first .22 was a Sears/J.C. Higgins single-shot rifle...still have it, rusting away somewhere... :rolleyes:

I can remember back in the '50's, my dad and I went into the basement of Jenss Bros dep't store; they had wooden barrels full of greasy old Enfield SMLE's...He bought one for $10... :eek:

We shot it for 40-someodd years...

That one disappeared after being loaned to a friend... :( (he died, and all his/my weapons seem to have evaporated)... :grumpy:
 
I have been into two stores recently to buy shells. They no longer had any 3-3.5" shells. The guy told me they were only selling 2 3/4" shells now. I told him that sux, and he said "you haven't seen anything yet". Doesn't look good.
 
There was a thread about this on one of the gun forums a while ago. If I remember right, Wal-Mart was pulling guns and ammo from certain stores. Wouldn't surprise me if they decided to do it nationwide. Around here, Dicks and Gander Mountain have comparable prices and better customer service.

My local Wal-Mart has several dozen tins. I'm waiting for a clearance sale in exactly 3 weeks :)
 
It's probably a good thing, it means more chances for the smaller independent gun stores.
 
DaveH said:
It's probably a good thing, it means more chances for the smaller independent gun stores.
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Yup. Fewer Walmarts selling guns means more possibilities for independent gun shops, and the less chance people across the country have to settle for one of the same guns sold in every Walmart (not saying they I think they are good or bad, but variety is best). I don't generally hate Walmart the way a lot of people do (free market, except for their shady land dealing rumors), but damn they just have the same stuff all the time, and often not the stuff I want.

I don't actually know how their gun prices compare, but two of my local gun shops have knife prices that are usually almost as low as online prices. Walmart has a few knives cheaper than anyone, like the Spyderco Native, but most of their knives aren't significantly cheaper than some other places. Academy has about the same price for a 110. I was just looking at an Adrenaline on Amazon.com for $33, I think walmart has it for $30.

Please Walmart, stop selling guns. Stop selling knives too. Stop selling everything except for canned food, plastic dishes, and toilet paper.
 
Since the explosion of online shopping my local gun stores are having a hard time staying in business. Don't get me wrong I support my local gun store but when you can get knives, holsters, ammo etc. online for cheaper and no sales tax, it's hard to resist. Walmart and online prices usually blow away the local mom and pop stores. I have notice the attitude of my local gun store change recently. Let's just say that they are much more willing to negotiate on prices now and before they had a "This is the price, buy it or leave" attitude. Sorry for being off-topic.
 
I agree that we all want our local gun shops to survie, but all The long Island, NY guns shops had the take my high price or get out of my store attitude, then Walmart, Kmart, Sports Authority and now Dicks came to town. Now they charge a somewhat more realistic price ( still 20% more than the big boxes). Competition is good for the consumer, and with the lack on gun shows on Long Island in the last few years, they will be raising the gun and knife prices again.....
 
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