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Walmart to stop Alaska handgun sales, end sales of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammo nationwide | Fox News

Walmart is set to end sales of handguns in Alaska and will discontinue the sale of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammunition in stores nationwide, the super chain's president and CEO announced Tuesday afternoon.

The store said it will gear its focus toward long-barrel deer rifles and shotguns, supplying much of the ammunition they require and providing hunting and sporting accessories and apparel, Doug McMillon wrote in a memo.
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Time to stock up on your .223 rounds, troops. Gun nut barber told me once that if you didn't own 10,000 rounds of ammo, you were just out of luck.
 
Excellent. Some sanity.

And Walmart is too big and too rich for the NRA to threaten.
 
10,000 rounds...

Well, I guess. That seems a bit excessive to me, but I suppose some people shoot more than others. But if you are buying 10,000 rounds at Walmart, you are spending too much. I'm sure you could get a bulk supply elsewhere that would cost less.

Me? It's been a long time since I bought ammo for my Lee-Enfield. I got 300 rounds at a gun show almost 10 years ago. I don't shoot much...once or twice a year...and I reload what I do shoot, so I still have that 300 rounds. It works for me.
 
JacksinPA said:
Walmart to stop Alaska handgun sales, end sales of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammo nationwide | Fox News

Walmart is set to end sales of handguns in Alaska and will discontinue the sale of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammunition in stores nationwide, the super chain's president and CEO announced Tuesday afternoon.

The store said it will gear its focus toward long-barrel deer rifles and shotguns, supplying much of the ammunition they require and providing hunting and sporting accessories and apparel, Doug McMillon wrote in a memo.
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Time to stock up on your .223 rounds, troops. Gun nut barber told me once that if you didn't own 10,000 rounds of ammo, you were just out of luck.
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USED to buy a lot of my 7.62x39 and 9mm at Walmart up until a couple of years ago. Found a better place with out the hassle they were starting. Sportsman's Warehouse. Also as a side note no more Winchester .308 either "hunting" round or not.
 
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zsu2357 said:
USED to buy a lot of my 7.62x39 and 9mm at Walmart up until a couple of years ago. Found a better place with out the hassle they were starting. Sportsman's Warehouse.
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My local Wal-Mart only seemed to stock the bottom shelf Tula and Wolf trash. When they did have a box of halfway decent ammo in you were limited to one box and the half hour wait to be helped wasn't worth the 10cents I saved. The owner of the local gin shop I frequent has a much better selection and great deals on bulk purchases. Shop at locally owned business and keep the community alive.
 
JacksinPA said:
Walmart to stop Alaska handgun sales, end sales of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammo nationwide | Fox News
Walmart is set to end sales of handguns in Alaska and will discontinue the sale of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammunition in stores nationwide, the super chain's president and CEO announced Tuesday afternoon.
The store said it will gear its focus toward long-barrel deer rifles and shotguns, supplying much of the ammunition they require and providing hunting and sporting accessories and apparel, Doug McMillon wrote in a memo.
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Time to stock up on your .223 rounds, troops. Gun nut barber told me once that if you didn't own 10,000 rounds of ammo, you were just out of luck.
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Didn't even know Walmart still sells handguns ...
 
Chillfolks said:
My local Wal-Mart only seemed to stock the bottom shelf Tula and Wolf trash. When they did have a box of halfway decent ammo in you were limited to one box and the half hour wait to be helped wasn't worth the 10cents I saved. The owner of the local gin shop I frequent has a much better selection and great deals on bulk purchases. Shop at locally owned business and keep the community alive.
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Never had any problems with Tula or Wolf but everybody is different. If I remember right they did carry SUPER X (not really a fan,but that goes way back when I bought it as a teen in .308 at an original G.I. store). Half hour wait? Damn. Here I got sick of showing I.D. to prove I was 21.
 
zsu2357 said:
Never had any problems with Tula or Wolf but everybody is different. If I remember right they did carry SUPER X (not really a fan,but that goes way back when I bought it as a teen in .308 at an original G.I. store). Half hour wait? Damn. Here I got sick of showing I.D. to prove I was 21.
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Tula is hit or miss, just not a fan of steel casings with Wolf IMO it causes excess wear. But a mag full of wolf is better than an empty one.

The wait was ridiculous. Wait for a clerk then they had to go find the key then keep handing me the wrong ammo. It just became to annoying when 5 minutes up the street the gun shop would be on point and had knowledgeable staff that would recommend different brands based on experience of what you were shooting it out of.
 
Chillfolks said:
Tula is hit or miss, just not a fan of steel casings with Wolf IMO it causes excess wear. But a mag full of wolf is better than an empty one.

The wait was ridiculous. Wait for a clerk then they had to go find the key then keep handing me the wrong ammo. It just became to annoying when 5 minutes up the street the gun shop would be on point and had knowledgeable staff that would recommend different brands based on experience of what you were shooting it out of.
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Now I understand what you meant by wait. That has happened to me also, but I for some reason thought you meant some kind of verification. I thought but should have been thinking.:3oops:
 
Chillfolks said:
My local Wal-Mart only seemed to stock the bottom shelf Tula and Wolf trash. When they did have a box of halfway decent ammo in you were limited to one box and the half hour wait to be helped wasn't worth the 10cents I saved. The owner of the local gin shop I frequent has a much better selection and great deals on bulk purchases. Shop at locally owned business and keep the community alive.
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I do not use 7.62x39 but fire 7.62x54r and for me wolf and tula have been trash as well. I buy now monarch from academy for bulk ammo which uses barnhaul from russia for steel cased and ppu for brass cased. For my rifle the monarch steel cased actually shot better and was often cheaper, 12-14 bucks for 20 rounds with wolf and tula, or 7-9 bucks for 20 rounds from monarch. Also monarch has less issues with sticking the bolt on my mosin, as all 3 use laquer finish, I forget which ones are all laquer and which ones were laquer over copper wash, But I do remember the laquer on the cheap wolf ammo would get hot and glue itself to the bolt making it a pain to operate the bolt without slamming it open to extract the shell.


Monarch is also usually stocked very well at academy, while tula and wolf are usually scare, like at my local walmart if I wanted a case I would have to check daily and the stock was usually gone the same day it arrived.
 
zsu2357 said:
Now I understand what you meant by wait. That has happened to me also, but I for some reason thought you meant some kind of verification. I thought but should have been thinking.:3oops:
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I think he definitely 100% meant the slow walmart wait. Heck I stopped buying any ammo from them when I found academy always had everything they had plus a crapton more at far lower prices and in better stock. Last time I bought a gun from them was a shotgun and it must have taken six hours because it seems every walmart has a policy of one person for the outdoors section who also runs other things and almost requires inside knowledge on when he will be there.

Besides that their gun selection is aweful, I remember when I was younger walmart used to have a fairly big gun sales department, now it is just a tiny handful of guns, a tiny selection of ammo in most stores, long wait times and poor service, in which I can drive right down the road to academy or many local gunshops and get service much quicker and often cheaper and with a better selection. Walmart seems to be going the way dicks did, Went there yesterday looking at kayaks, but noticed the one where I live did not sell any firearms or accessories anymore.

Last time I went to dicks where they sold firearms it was 1-2 bolt action rifles and a bunch of over-under shotguns, I guess you can not make a profit selling guns anyways if you do not sell what people want, I mean side by side and over under shotguns sell, but not in great quantities and it helps when someone besides elmer fudd is in charge of choosing what firearm selection to sell.
 
JacksinPA said:
Walmart to stop Alaska handgun sales, end sales of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammo nationwide | Fox News

Walmart is set to end sales of handguns in Alaska and will discontinue the sale of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammunition in stores nationwide, the super chain's president and CEO announced Tuesday afternoon.

The store said it will gear its focus toward long-barrel deer rifles and shotguns, supplying much of the ammunition they require and providing hunting and sporting accessories and apparel, Doug McMillon wrote in a memo.
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Time to stock up on your .223 rounds, troops. Gun nut barber told me once that if you didn't own 10,000 rounds of ammo, you were just out of luck.
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I think that this is a business decision. I could see in the future lawsuits against the seller rather than the makers of guns and Walmart does not want to be involved. I suspect gun sales are not a major art of their business.
 
JacksinPA said:
Walmart to stop Alaska handgun sales, end sales of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammo nationwide | Fox News

Walmart is set to end sales of handguns in Alaska and will discontinue the sale of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammunition in stores nationwide, the super chain's president and CEO announced Tuesday afternoon.

The store said it will gear its focus toward long-barrel deer rifles and shotguns, supplying much of the ammunition they require and providing hunting and sporting accessories and apparel, Doug McMillon wrote in a memo.
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Time to stock up on your .223 rounds, troops. Gun nut barber told me once that if you didn't own 10,000 rounds of ammo, you were just out of luck.
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Yea, I heard that on the local radio today. It won't effect me. You wouldn't catch me driving into the parking lot of a Walmart, much less inside one of their stores. I load my own, except for .22 caliber rounds that I buy. I get those from the gun store where I buy my powder, shot, primers, and bullets.

According to the radio announcement, they also asked that no firearms be brought into their store - even though they are continuing to sell rifles and shotguns. To make it official, they will need to post it publicly outside their building, otherwise nobody will know. Any business, of course, has the right to refuse to serve any customer for any reason they like. Just as the customer has the right to shop at another business.
 
Mycroft said:
10,000 rounds...

Well, I guess. That seems a bit excessive to me, but I suppose some people shoot more than others. But if you are buying 10,000 rounds at Walmart, you are spending too much. I'm sure you could get a bulk supply elsewhere that would cost less.

Me? It's been a long time since I bought ammo for my Lee-Enfield. I got 300 rounds at a gun show almost 10 years ago. I don't shoot much...once or twice a year...and I reload what I do shoot, so I still have that 300 rounds. It works for me.
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It would take me approximately 40 years to burn through 10,000 rounds of .44 mag. at the rate that I shoot each year. I'm own by Ruger Super Redhawk for 34 years, which works out to ~8,500 rounds I've fired thus far. I practice with my other firearms as well, but I'm weakest with the handguns, so I spend more time practicing with them.
 
Chillfolks said:
My local Wal-Mart only seemed to stock the bottom shelf Tula and Wolf trash. When they did have a box of halfway decent ammo in you were limited to one box and the half hour wait to be helped wasn't worth the 10cents I saved. The owner of the local gin shop I frequent has a much better selection and great deals on bulk purchases. Shop at locally owned business and keep the community alive.
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I haven't seen Tula, but I made the mistake of buying Wolf ammo for my SKS once. They varnish the damn round. It choked up the chamber and barrel so badly that by the fifth round it began jamming and shooting in 6" groups at 100 yards. I made certain never to repeat that mistake again.
 
Glitch said:
It would take me approximately 40 years to burn through 10,000 rounds of .44 mag. at the rate that I shoot each year. I'm own by Ruger Super Redhawk for 34 years, which works out to ~8,500 rounds I've fired thus far. I practice with my other firearms as well, but I'm weakest with the handguns, so I spend more time practicing with them.
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my wife, myself and a father and his daughter that we take steel shooting with us go through about 400 rounds of 9mm a week shooting steel. a steel match is typically 75 rounds or so and that assumes no misses so 85 to 90 is standard for a match. On a given Friday night, I will shoot two 9mm Pistols, my wife one, the father one, and the girl one (my wife and the girl also shoot a 22 RF event). we also have several other matches a month. I have a big Dillon 1050 and a commercial loading company sells me primed and resized used 9mm brass pretty cheap (the priming system on the early 1050s leave lots to be desired). I can load about 1200 rounds an hour on that rig if I am really cranking but I generally load 150-200 rounds two or three times a week. The father runs a PCC so we use generic factory 9mm for that rather than the "Black Bullets International" lead bullets I run in the handguns. I buy 9mm by the case lot at least
 
Glitch said:
I haven't seen Tula, but I made the mistake of buying Wolf ammo for my SKS once. They varnish the damn round. It choked up the chamber and barrel so badly that by the fifth round it began jamming and shooting in 6" groups at 100 yards. I made certain never to repeat that mistake again.
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I buy the TULA 9mm when I get get 100 rounds for 12 bucks at AIM SURPLUS. we use it for training ammo out of PCCs since they don't like lead bullets. My son also runs them through his SIG 365 CCW pistol. I don't use them in the $2400 dollar match pistols I compete with since the "bimetal" bullets (they attract a magnet) are a bit harder on barrels than lead..For the most part, I have had no issues with TULA, nor the wolf-though on a PCC, the steel cased wolf will sometimes stick if you go awhile without running a bore-snake down the barrel.

when I shoot open division, I have a ton of Hornady 9mm loaded into Russian Steel cases with 145 grain bullets using Hornady components and US powder. These are great in muddy conditions where the empty cartridges are going to be impossible to retrieve anyway.
 
Glitch said:
It would take me approximately 40 years to burn through 10,000 rounds of .44 mag. at the rate that I shoot each year. I'm own by Ruger Super Redhawk for 34 years, which works out to ~8,500 rounds I've fired thus far. I practice with my other firearms as well, but I'm weakest with the handguns, so I spend more time practicing with them.
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Some people I know would take 100 years to burn through 10k rounds yet they have around that. Their reasoning was the whole .223 and 5.56 shortage where scalpers where buying up all stock upon hitting store shelves and selling them at gun ranges and massively inflated prices giving the option of pay my price or you do not shoot, they did the same with 22lr after the 5.56 market stabilized and stocks returned.

For them it was simply that if it took 100 years to blow through that much ammo, it was 100 years they did not have to deal with scalpers or waiting in line in hopes they may get a single 20 round box before stocks ran out. This stuff literally happened with 5.56 .223 and .22lr, as well as 7.62x54r after obama era rules banning surplus ammo and also to 5.45x39 ammo as well.
 
TurtleDude said:
my wife, myself and a father and his daughter that we take steel shooting with us go through about 400 rounds of 9mm a week shooting steel. a steel match is typically 75 rounds or so and that assumes no misses so 85 to 90 is standard for a match. On a given Friday night, I will shoot two 9mm Pistols, my wife one, the father one, and the girl one (my wife and the girl also shoot a 22 RF event). we also have several other matches a month. I have a big Dillon 1050 and a commercial loading company sells me primed and resized used 9mm brass pretty cheap (the priming system on the early 1050s leave lots to be desired). I can load about 1200 rounds an hour on that rig if I am really cranking but I generally load 150-200 rounds two or three times a week. The father runs a PCC so we use generic factory 9mm for that rather than the "Black Bullets International" lead bullets I run in the handguns. I buy 9mm by the case lot at least
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I don't shoot competitively. That's the difference. I only go to the range once or twice in a year. Always sometime around late-July, just prior to caribou, grouse, and moose season. I zero my rifles at 150 yards, practice with some skeet, and shoot about 150 rounds of .44 each visit. I find that I'm more accurate with the .44 than I am with the 9mm. The .44 is much heavier, and I think that helps with the stability.

I use a MEC 650 for reloading shotgun shells. For my rifles and handguns, I use Lee. I can't get anywhere near 1,200 rounds an hour. With the MEC 650 has an auto-primer feeder, and I can crank out ~200 rounds an hour, if I only use the same hull. If you change hulls you have to readjust. The Lee Loader is really bare bones, everything is manual. I can reload maybe 20 rounds of .44 mag. in an hour. It takes ~3 minutes per round. My bear load for my .44 mag. is a 240 gr. soft point Speer, with 24.4 gr. of H110. You definitely do not want to be standing within 3 feet next to the revolver that fires that round.
 
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