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How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter's AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America
http://www.thenation.com/article/171808/how-walmart-helped-make-newtown-shooters-ar-15-most-popular-assault-weapon-america#
..... Sadly, this isnt the first time the country has had to deal with the aftermath of a horrific shooting spree, nor is it the first time weve encountered an AR-15 in this context: only days earlier, it was the weapon of choice for a shooting at an Oregon mall that killed two people. Five months earlier, it was used by James Holmes in an attack that wounded fifty-eight people and killed twelve in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. And several years before that, a man and his teenage accomplice used a Bushmaster AR-15 to terrorize the Washington, DC, area with a series of random shootings.
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the model is familiar to many Walmart shoppers. Its on sale at about 1,700 Walmart stores nationwide, though the retail chain pulled the weapon from its website early this afternoon. While last weeks deadly rampage in Connecticut has finally and unmistakably highlighted the madness of making these weapons so readily available, its a concern many people with a Walmart in their community have been trying to address for much longer.
Earlier this year, the Rev. Greg Brown had a troubling conversation with two members of his youth group from the northwest side of South Bend, Indiana. They were honor roll students and little young folks that love the Lord, Brown recounted. One of the kids came up to me and said, Rev, you aint gonna believe what happened the other day at Walmart. The kids went on to describe how, on a recent visit to the big-box store, a man asked them to fill up a gym bag with ammunition and sneak it out of the store for him. They declined.
Walmarts ammunition sales have troubled Brown since at least 2009, when two teenagers shoplifted bullets from the local Walmart, shot at an employee who tried to stop them in the parking lot, and then embarked on a citywide robbery spree .......
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the model is familiar to many Walmart shoppers. Its on sale at about 1,700 Walmart stores nationwide, though the retail chain pulled the weapon from its website early this afternoon. While last weeks deadly rampage in Connecticut has finally and unmistakably highlighted the madness of making these weapons so readily available, its a concern many people with a Walmart in their community have been trying to address for much longer.
Earlier this year, the Rev. Greg Brown had a troubling conversation with two members of his youth group from the northwest side of South Bend, Indiana. They were honor roll students and little young folks that love the Lord, Brown recounted. One of the kids came up to me and said, Rev, you aint gonna believe what happened the other day at Walmart. The kids went on to describe how, on a recent visit to the big-box store, a man asked them to fill up a gym bag with ammunition and sneak it out of the store for him. They declined.
Walmarts ammunition sales have troubled Brown since at least 2009, when two teenagers shoplifted bullets from the local Walmart, shot at an employee who tried to stop them in the parking lot, and then embarked on a citywide robbery spree .......
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How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter's AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America (Original Post)
Coyotl
Dec 2012
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CraftyGal
(695 posts)1. That is so, so scary! n/t
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)2. I wonder how many gun shops Wal*Mart has nationwide.
They may be one of the biggest suppliers of weapons and ammo in the world??