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

[Dog Gone at Penigma]

203. they have a long list of law suits that they have settled, admitting guilt - notably the examples I

provided of the settlement they reneged on with the Brady campaign, and the example I provided of the Indiana store that violated their agreement with a municipality.

If you really are so gullible as to believe that simply calling a hot line on Walmart would be all it takes, you're a fool.

Walmart in ALL the areas they violate the law - and there are many - has perfected the art of violating the law. Sometimes they get away with it, lots of times they have a lot of lawyers who settle, with the promise of not having further infractions.....until they have further infractions. EVERY damned time they claim that those infractions do not reflect their policies -- like the bribery scandal in Mexico for example. Except that increasingly it is obvious from whistle blowers that it is EXACTLY their policy.

Here's what I predict will happen in Indiana. The next round of elections for the city council, Walmart will fund candidates who are Walmart friendly who will NOT enforce that agreement. In the interim, they will half-heartedly sort of go through the motions of improving their security for guns and ammo, and maybe be a little more careful of who they have staffing that area, making sure they are of legal age to sell, know what checks they are supposed to do, etc.

But only for a little while, when they will return to their earlier practice that violated their agreement. They want to sell as many guns and as much ammo as possible, and the law be damned if someone who shouldn't either does the selling or the buying, so long as the sales happen.

In federal cases, they are notorious for dragging out cases so that they deal with lots of changes over time in who the prosecutor is, as well as changes in venue to judges more favorable to them, until they can wear down prosecutors to settle. They are even better at that when it comes to civil suits for wrongful death.

Other sellers are much more careful in how they train their staff for things like doing NICS checks, maintain better security for firearms and ammo, and are much more careful about abiding by laws and regulations at all levels. They do NOT have the rate of law suits anything remotely like those that Walmart does. Nor do they have the incidents with firearms. Their business models and corporate culture do not involve the kind of conduct that Walmart engages in, and they do not promote people who engage in it - as Walmart does.

If you believe otherwise, write something that shows Dicks or Gander Mountain has anything even remotely like this kind of incidence with guns in their stores, or law suits relating to guns. Since they don't, why don't YOU try to explain why?

One of the next posts I'm working on for the gungeon is an actual list of the gun-related law suits that I can find for Walmart.

You can be pro-gun, and still condemn these Walmart gun incidents and their sales practices. That you don't shows that you are not really all that concerned with safety or lawful conduct when it comes to guns.