WalMart Suspends Ammo Orders

[Craig1056]

You people are beginning to embarrass me. Walmart hasn't said that they will never sell ammo again. They are simply waiting for the dust to settle before placing any more orders. If you don't like it shop elsewhere. This was brought on by the democrats in congress and the White House. Walmart isn't your enemy.

Are you not a bit concerned that the largest retailer of ammo in the US is so quick "wait for the dust to settle". Seems to me this is a bit more than Chicken Little screaming embarrassing things.

I agree Walmart is not the enemy here but they obviously are quickly influenced by the anti-gun leftest who have no problem doing whatever it takes to get Walmart to roll over. Think it's time the rest of us let this "for profit" company that any decisions they make (yes- they haven't yet) regarding future policy changes might have an effect on their bottom line.

That or we can just be quite and hope for the best so as to not embarrass ourselves.

[OldLincoln]

I believe that Americans are voting with their wallets in buying new guns. They wouldn't buy one just to hand it over so the message is very clear that we will oppose any action to take away our guns.

So I think he will once again skirt the real thing to put obstacles for ammo, registration, etc. Heck if he added a complete Psyc audit to confirm stability that would price most out of the market. Of course it may open a heck of a mail order market for on0line psychologists. (Reminds me of the Texas Ranger Psyc Interview).

[RWillieK]

I have gone to three different Walmarts today looking for .22lr 9mm and .380....I found nothing at all.

[chrish]

I have gone to three different Walmarts today looking for .22lr 9mm and .380....I found nothing at all.

If all the online places are out, you can bet your butt most all retail outlets are bare. Even bigger 'gun' places like sportsman's warehouse are rationing it here. Them and the LGS here are only handing out 1 box per customer of some calibers (.223/5.56) and no more than 3 of other things (9mm, .22).

If you can find it, buy it. It will definitely 'come back' in stock, but many backorder notes online are showing June/July timeframes. But when it does come back in stock, who knows what restrictions there might be by the time EOs and Congress does its thang on it.

[getsome]

What we are seeing now is just a glimpse of what could and IMHO will happen when the SHTF...all ammo will be gone overnight along with food, water, gasoline and anything else we take for granted will be there anytime we feel like buying it....This is a good lesson in stocking up and staying prepared for a general emergency....

Most of us have enough ammo without resorting to hording and it will come back on the shelves just as it did in early 2009 after the election shock wore off but when it does come back this time it will be much more expensive than before and some calibers may take longer but my point is to get ready and stay ready cause I got a feeling in my old bones we are going to see some tough times ahead....

As for the Walmart fill up a shopping cart with frozen food and leave it in sporting goods deal, that sounds like fun but is too wasteful and theres already shopping carts all over the store so they won't even notice that...What WILL get their attention is for everyone to take a big crap in a brown paper bag with 2nd amendment written in magic marker on it and leave those next to their empty ammo case...Hard to miss what thats all about!!!

[Bawanna]

I think you need a psychiatric evaluation. My appointments at 4, maybe I'll see you there?

[RWillieK]

I have searching online for 9mm FMJ, and can't find it in stock anywhere.....I wanna go play at the range!!

[Tinman507]

+1 on that. Focus your frustration and hopefully down right anger on the root cause of all this. President Barrack Obama and his disciples.

Hope everyone is happy, I didn't call him monkey or missing link or anything.

Oh crap, guess I did. I hate myself.

[GROTMAN]

Bawanna.. it's ok to be a racist after all.

[muggsy]

Put your energy, time and money into doing something constructive like writing and calling your legislators. Support the conservatives from both sides of the aisle who support your constitutional rights. Walmart isn't in a position to take your rights away from you.

[JustinN]

There isn't any official sources for this yet. Every site I've seen talking about this is all citing investment watch blog. I'm going to wait for an official comment from Walmart before jumping all over the boycott them wagon. Walmart is the only store in my Whole town that carries ammunition....

I also don't see how the "rumors are true" based on one unofficial source on the internet. Walmart doesn't have ammo because it is unavailable. Now, I can see they may wait the 8 days to place any new ammo orders, but have they canceled current order? Who knows what sort of threats/etc Biden gave them the other day, perhaps they don't want to by millions of dollars of inventory they won't be able to sell in a couple weeks. Either way, i'm far from boycotting them, and I'm also far from exclaiming "The Rumors are true!"

I mean, if one site stated "One person standing near another over heard a phone call from Obama saying all guns are illegal and anyone caught with one will go to prison immediately!" are you going to burn all your guns/try to turn them in? At a time like this, I really don't see Walmart as the enemy, we have better places to focus our rage during all of this than one of the largest retailers that still has guns on the shelves as of now. In the end, they are a business, and will make decisions that keep their doors open.

[gulfwarvet]

Hummm... Must have some other forum readers living nearby. My wife and I were at WM this afternoon and were walking down the sporting goods isles when we came upon a fully loaded basket just sitting there. We were on that isle for a good 2-3 minutes and never saw anyone. My wife commented that someone must have gotten mad and walked out.... but now that I have read this. If they fold - BOYCOT!

[Scoundrel]

In the end, they are a business, and will make decisions that keep their doors open.

Average WalMart store square footage: (http://corporate.walmart.com/our-sto...-states-stores)
182,000 square feet

Square footage for a WalMart ammo case (estimated, based on the ones I have seen in Western Washington State:
100 square feet

Number of guns I usually see in WalMart display cases:
10 (all long guns)

Even if every gun owner stopped buying anything at all at their stores in protest, discontinuing guns and ammo will NOT put Walmart out of business.

[Planedude]

Are we sure Wallyworld can even get ammo right now... especially since they would only buy at a super low price point for the bulk they stock at the warehouse/distrbution level. These wally guys are super cheap buisness guys and if they can't get it at an uber low price, they don't buy.

Anyone seen any cheap ammo for sale lately???

[tuck3r53]

I think a lot of that has to do with it just not being available right now..

http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/walmart-r...ed-ammo-story/