Walmart to raise age requirement to purchase guns and ammunition

Dick’s Sporting Goods announced on Wednesday it will also stop selling high-capacity magazines and will not sell any guns to people under 21.

Now, it will pull those weapons from all of its stores.

Grief counsellors were on hand as students and teachers arrived at the campus, two weeks after 17 of their peers were shot dead by an expelled former student with an AR-15 rifle.

The change comes one day after Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods, both prominent gun sellers, tightened their company policies, and also a day after students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, for the first time since the shooting there.

In addition to banning assault-style weapons, Dick’s Sporting Goods also raised the minimum age at their stores for customers to buy any gun. Most folks Fox 10 News asked about the decision were fine with it whether they were gun owners or not.

“My reaction is it doesn’t matter”. It also says it doesn’t sell handguns, except in Alaska.

“It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting”, the CEO wrote.

The massacre spurred a youth-led wave of protests, and state and national officials are considering whether to pass stricter gun control measures. Probably not. So what distinguishes the guns that Dick’s not only has stopped selling but wants Congress to ban?

“Nothing like 2013 or the past election but it has boosted sales again”, he said.

“I don’t know how long it’s going to last, honestly”, Leghorn said.

DWYER: Well, as you mentioned, there have been a host of major retailers who have actually ended their corporate relationships with the National Rifle Association in the past week.

“That is not addressing the problem we have today and that is the misuse of firearms by children and adults of all ages”. A few who came to the Homestead location said they came because of them, like Linda Ehrenreich of Point Breeze.

Longtime youth shooting sports instructor Barry Hartman said he sees no practical benefit in banning sales to anyone under the age of 21.

“If you can be 18 and serve our country, you should be able to buy a weapon”, said Kendall Boots. “They’re just going to shoot each other or make an accident”. They may be correct – but if common sense reform is enacted and even one life is saved, it will have been worth it. “A lot of people are afraid their Second Amendment rights will be taken away from them but that’s not the case. I’m definitely pro assault rifle”, said another shopper.

Outdoor goods retailer Bass Pro Shops, which acquired Cabelas Inc a year ago and sells guns under both retail brands, did not respond to requests for comment. “It can save the community”, another Dick’s customer said.

He echoed Hartman’s comment on restricting sales of shotguns and rifles to anyone under the age of 21. “The politicians who are supposed to be representing us and the country and the people, they’re now doing what I think the majority of the country does feel and I wish more politicians would actually represent what the majority of what the people feel”.

Still, Dick’s represents just a tiny fraction of the roughly 64,000 licensed gun stores registered with the federal government.

“Not all sportsmen are constitutionalists”, he said.