Walmart returns firearms, ammunition to U.S. store floors ahead of election
Source: Reuters
Walmart Inc said on Friday it has begun returning firearms and ammunitions to the floors of its U.S. stores a day after the world’s largest retailer said it had removed these products to protect customers and employees as tensions across the country rise.
“After civil unrest earlier this week resulted in damage to several of our stores ... we asked stores to move firearms and ammunition from the sales floor .... As the current incidents have remained geographically isolated, we have made the decision to begin returning these products to the sales floor today,” the company said.
A Walmart spokesman declined to comment on why the decision to place firearms and ammunition back on U.S. store floors was made days before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3., with many worried that the result could be contested or spark violence.
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I've gotten prescriptions there (it's the closest pharmacy near me) so I double checked online and there was nothing. I definitely would have noticed. 
We have enough gun shops here in Philly and in PA in general as it is. 
Though there is a gun shop on the way to my dentist - in Albany.
and I grew up with Field & Stream mag in the house. But with both having been vets (WWI and WW2), there was none of this nonsense of prancing around with rifles slung over their shoulders and brandishing like you see some of these idiots doing nowadays. Most of those camo-wearing fakes have never served a day in the military.
When I was a kid, I went to summer camp on Lake Champlain in Vermont (all girls) and riflery was one of the "activities." A couple of my friends (who I'm still in touch with) used to shoot, but I was all freaked out by it. The counselor kept me late one day and asked me to give it a try so I wouldn't be afraid of it - and it turned out I was good at it, so I kept it up.
I was on the team at camp (obviously all girls) and because there was a team at school, at a PTA meeting my mother asked the coach if they ever had girls on their team and he said that they didn't, but there was no reason why they couldn't, so I joined the team at my school (as the first and only girl) and we did pretty well. I was "second man," the one who they put in at the end to make up points if we needed to.
But that was a long time ago, when I was still in my teens. And there was an unwritten rule at camp that we never shot anything living (lots of woods around) - and no one ever did. As for my stance on gun control, no one needs a gun - and since most people don't know how to use one, they're more dangerous to them than anything else.
and I think the Girl Scouts offers a badge for it (I was one for 6 years and my mom was a Brownie leader). We had archery in high school but I just never got into those types of things beyond occasional fishing.
My mom eventually gave my father's old hunting rifle to her uncle who was also a WW2 vet (on the oldest age range of those vets). Her brother still packs pistols (I remember he used to keep a 38 and ammo in his car and would pop open the glove compartment to display them). He literally emailed pics last week of himself holding something - am guessing some kind of 20 gauge shotgun and a pic of a 9 mm (that he calls "a little pea shooter" ) that he bought for his housemate. 
He just turned 77 this year and lives in MN.
I had a boyfriend whose brother inherited his grandfather's guns and he did some target shooting with them. Since he knew I shot, he invited me to try them and the heaviest gun, the 30-30 actually knocked me down!
No one else in my family ever had guns and I was forced to give it up after my years at camp and when I went to boarding school, there was no team there - and considering the mentality there, I'd say that was a good thing!
The one guy on my team who I could rarely beat, he was "first man," LOL. They come from a big family of doctors, the Mom was a pediatrician and the Dad took my tonsils out one year after school ended which made me late for summer camp. And all the kids became doctors. I didn't know this guy, but I told him that I'd been on the QHS rifle team with his brother and to say hello. We were both on the same team so we were friends. And if he forgets my name, Peter will know if he mentions the rifle team since I was the only girl. 
I think just based on how they are designed, it would be easier for guys to use them anyway due to the shoulder thing they have going. I can imagine poor little you with those guys, but "standing your ground" regardless! 
And since you mention having your tonsils out, THAT is probably why the sinus issues. One of my sisters had her tonsils out "late" (I think she was like 19) and she always had sinus problems.
My grandfather was a dentist and had a "summer" home out in West Chester, PA (which is in what is still a somewhat rural county although the developers have been swarming all over it making it an "exburb" ). He used to have beagles that he would take with him when he went hunting, so he was apparently really into it. 
It belonged to the school, but they let me take it to camp with me. My parents were going to buy it for me if there was a team at my boarding school, but of course there wasn't so that was that. The other sport I participated in was riding, my camp was mainly riding and swimming - being right on the lake. But of course that school didn't offer that, either. *sigh*
Nobody on my team hunted that I know of, it was strictly target shooting, except the coach so of course I had to give him grief. But he was always extremely nice to me, since I was the only girl, there was a girl in the rifle "club" who wasn't good enough to be on the team and we were good friends, so I wouldn't be the only girl there, the coach (also our chemistry teacher) let her come to all the meets with me. It was his idea. 
And even though I graduated from the boarding school, when I came to teacher recommendations for college, I asked my coach. 
and even if you haven't done it in decades, some of that training would inevitably come back to you if you had to actually pick one up again and use it! Glad you had a good relationship with the coach too. That definitely helps (he might have had a daughter or daughters himself, so was more patient )!
people want the security of owning guns. Lots of guns. And lots of ammo.
Walmart wants to sell them those things.
But what is the security they provide? The thought of being able to damage and possibly kill another person?
Where is the 'security' in that thinking?
Oh yeah, zombies. And marauding groups of upset people. Civil war. Go buy guns! It will solve all your (in)security problems! 
Actually, if there is civil unrest around the time of the election, guns will be a major part of the problem, not the solution.
