https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/30/walmart-guns-stores/
Walmart backtracks, begins putting guns back in stores
The move comes one day after the nation’s largest retailer announced it would remove firearms displays over fears of “civil unrest.”
[Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart said Friday it will return gun and ammunition displays at its U.S. stores.]
Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart said Friday it will return gun and ammunition displays at its U.S. stores. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
By Abha Bhattarai
October 30, 2020 at 3:21 PM EDT
One day after announcing it had removed all guns and ammunition from store shelves because of fears of “civil unrest,” Walmart said Friday it had begun putting those items back on sales floors.
The retail giant said it originally instructed store managers to move firearms and ammunition from in-store displays to a secure location in the back “in an abundance of caution.” The company said several of its stores had been damaged earlier in the week during protests. According to local media in Philadelphia, at least one Walmart location had been ransacked after rioting broke out following the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man whose family said he was in the midst of a mental health crisis.