Walmart is under fire after Dick's Sporting Goods banned assault rifles — but it stopped selling those guns 3 years ago (WMT, DKS)
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- Walmart stopped selling assault-style weapons in 2015, citing sluggish demand.
- Many people are unaware of Walmart's decision, however, and are now flooding the retailer's Facebook page with requests to ban the guns.
Now that Dick's Sporting Goods has banned the sale of assault-style weapons in its Field & Stream stores, many people are looking to Walmart, the nation's largest gun seller, to follow suit.
People are begging Walmart on its social-media accounts to stop selling automatic rifles like the one used in the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17 students and staff members earlier this month.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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