Petition Asks Walmart to Stop Selling Guns
By: Amanda Ashley
Updated: January 4, 2013
More than eighty-five thousand people have signed a petition asking Walmart to stop selling assault weapons.
It's part of an online effort by SomeOfUs.org asking the Bentonville based retailer to pull the Bushmaster AR from store shelves. It's the same high-powered rifle linked to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting. Walmart has already pulled the listing for another Bushmaster rifle from its online store since the shooting.
Dick's Sporting Goods has also pulled rifles off its shelves in the wake of the tragedy. It stopped selling semi-automatic rifles just four days after the shooting.
It's part of an online effort by SomeOfUs.org asking the Bentonville based retailer to pull the Bushmaster AR from store shelves. It's the same high-powered rifle linked to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting. Walmart has already pulled the listing for another Bushmaster rifle from its online store since the shooting.
Dick's Sporting Goods has also pulled rifles off its shelves in the wake of the tragedy. It stopped selling semi-automatic rifles just four days after the shooting.
