Walmart is the largest firearms dealer in US; has roughly one-a-week firearms incidents

[gejohnston]

184. who said I was a defender of Wal Mart

WalMart, compared to say CostCo, or other big box stores is a bad corporate citizen.

I totally agree

While they SAY they go above and beyond they have yet to live up to any of these agreements. They also have a shit load of lawyers they throw at legal battles. Multiple judges who have had cases involving WalMart have described their legal representation as suffeing from a corporate culture of perjury and law breaking - on the record.

It wouldn't surprise me, that is true of a lot of multi national corporations.

They have been in trouble for corporate corruption internationally - most recently in a big scandal in Mexico, they have been prosecuted for forcing employees to work 'off the clock' - to work unpaid - to keep their jobs, they have violated every kind of law and statute and ordinance you can think of, and they made what you called a 'non-binding' agreement as part of a settlement in litigation for wrongful deaths as a result of their gun selling practices, and then failed to honor that agreement. The routinely hire illegal aliens. They engage in foreign labor practices that result in tragedies like the 120 people who died in that factory fire. They violate environmental law. If there is a law in the way of them making money - they violate it.

I'm no defender of Wal Mart, but the wrongful death suits are bogus unless Wal Mart broke the law. If the ATF pulled the FFLs from Wal Mart, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I seriously doubt my local Wally World does as much gun business as the locally owned Ace Hardware.

The list of what WalMart says, in contrast to what WalMart does is shocking, appalling and horrific.

yeah

It is not accidental that WalMart has worked to avoid prosecution and being held accountable for those actions through their ALEC corruption where they effectively buy /bribe large numbers of state and federal conservative politicians, and act in secret to draft legislation - including a lot of gun legislation.

I agree, so does Home Depot. So do south Florida sugar farm owners.

So WalMart SAID they would go above and beyond. So what - they DON'T. Your assumptions about prosecution for FFL licenses when it comes to Wallyworld are a bit optimistic. They have a record of NOT obeying the law - and getting away with it for too long, and when finally nailed, of negotiating their way out of it by dumping a lot of money on the problem -- and then making it back by either doing the same thing, or something different.

so are you saying Wal Mart bribes local ATF agents? The Walton family bribe or pressure DoJ, or the Treasury Dept (ATF was under Treasury until 2004)?

It is not an accident or a coincidence that other stores that do not engage in the kind of practices and policies that WalMart does do not have these gun incidents. It is specific to WalMart for a reason.

I think it has more to do with their size, poor security, and locations.