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6 Aug 2019

Author:
Kate Gibson, CBS News

Walmart will still sell guns after 2 mass shootings in one week

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Gun control advocacy groups hope Walmart, one of the nation's top sellers of firearms, will reconsider its role in weapons sales in the aftermath of a shooting rampage that killed at least 22 people at one of its stores in El Paso, Texas."Walmart has a history of moving in the right direction, but what happened in El Paso shows they need to go further," [said] Igor Volsky, executive director of Guns Down America... almart has no such plans, company spokesman Randy Hargrove told CBS MoneyWatch. "There is no change in any company policy," Hargrove said. "No retailer is immune to violence," he added of Saturday's bloodshed, which came days after an employee shot and killed two other workers at a Walmart in Southaven, Mississippi... Walmart employees take computer-based active-shooter training when they first join the company, and repeat the training quarterly... Walmart last month said it would no longer sell guns in New Mexico after a state law took effect requiring background checks for nearly all private gun sales except antiques and between relatives. The law lets federally licensed gun sellers, including Walmart, provide background checks.

... Walmart said in a statement at the time that its "heritage as a company has always been in serving sportsmen and hunters, and we will continue to do so in a responsible way." 

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