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Posted: 10/8/2011 11:07:07 PM
Originally Posted By GB243:
I still think they should sell uppers and lowers separately . They could offer a dozen different calibers and have lay-away on the uppers. I couldn't fathom a chain like Wal-Mart wanting to do that. Way too much liability potential there... |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 11:11:02 PM
Saw one tonight at the local Wallyworld - Bushmaster Patrolman's Carbine; 16' M4 Clone w/detachable carry handle. At 895.00, I was kind of 'meh' - but it was nice to see a legit EBR offered at the local box store - it's been pretty much Fuddville until now.
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Posted: 10/8/2011 11:15:45 PM
Originally Posted By n0zzle:
I'm sure Wally World regrets having that fat sow Rosie as a spokes person. Must have cost them a nice bundle for her stupidity. Wal-Mart never had Rosie as a spokesman. That was K-Mart. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 11:20:17 PM
I always thought the reason they (along with Big-5, K-Mart, ect) didn't sell anything "assault weapony" was because they could easily accidently deliver restricted items to, say, California and the stupid employs would put it out on the shelf and Wal Mart would be in trouble???
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Posted: 10/8/2011 11:24:27 PM
Originally Posted By Hoodooman:
Saw one tonight at the local Wallyworld - Bushmaster Patrolman's Carbine; 16' M4 Clone w/detachable carry handle. At 895.00, I was kind of 'meh' - but it was nice to see a legit EBR offered at the local box store - it's been pretty much Fuddville until now. You'd think with Walmart's purchasing power they could offer them for a lower price. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 11:49:49 PM
Originally Posted By 6winchester2:
Originally Posted By Bama-Shooter:
Originally Posted By nightmare0331:
haha...holy hell...who'd have thought. even for non Wallyworld fans, this just strenghtens the 'common usage' argument if they're being sold at Walmart. What was the price of it? I remember when WM was a regional chain and had Colt AR-15's on the shelf along with handguns.  I once bought a Smith and Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum at AAFES (The Army/Air Force Exchange Service which ran PXs and BXs back in the day - and maybe they still do). AAFES still runs the shit show, they just recently dropped the "P" from all of our px's on post and now theres just an X that says "exchange" under it. gay. Anyhow, knox sells long guns and hand guns, no AK's since the new CG showed up...last time I was at benning they were installing a new gun counter, which hadn't been there before when I graduated OSUT. Infact, I just bought a sig mosquito at the ... X today! |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:28:02 AM
The three Walmarts I end up going to on the rich white-people side of town all sell only ammo. But go to the 'other' side of town and they sell long guns.
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:53:43 AM
Originally Posted By aquaman67: Originally Posted By soonerman: That's about the price I saw too on the one in the pic.I saw the "BMI AR-15" today here in Wal-mart in central Oklahoma... Price is like $867, I believe. What city, if you don't mind saying? |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 2:15:54 AM
Originally Posted By parshooter:
Originally Posted By aquaman67:
Originally Posted By soonerman:
That's about the price I saw too on the one in the pic.I saw the "BMI AR-15" today here in Wal-mart in central Oklahoma... Price is like $867, I believe. What city, if you don't mind saying? Norman, OK |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 2:48:29 AM
Originally Posted By John87:
i really hope no one here would buy an ar from walmart. support your local fun store. walmart already has enough of your money. Most of the "fun stores" around me are run by greedy dipshits who let other dipshits (including cops) hang around because they think they are gun know-it-alls, but all they do is run customers off. And they over charge the shit out of people and get pissed when you want to do a transfer. I would rather go to walmart and pay more for a gun, at least they admit they don't know shit about guns and don't have the gimp at the counter breathing down my neck.  |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:35:04 AM
Originally Posted By Smithy:
Originally Posted By John87:
i really hope no one here would buy an ar from walmart. support your local fun store. walmart already has enough of your money. Most of the "fun stores" around me are run by greedy dipshits who let other dipshits (including cops) hang around because they think they are gun know-it-alls, but all they do is run customers off. And they over charge the shit out of people and get pissed when you want to do a transfer. I would rather go to walmart and pay more for a gun, at least they admit they don't know shit about guns and don't have the gimp at the counter breathing down my neck. Well I think I know which store in OKC you might be talking about  |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:38:57 AM
Noticed a Remington R-15 and my local Wally yesterday. Think it was listed at $997 or something like that. Reminded me again of how much I hate the finish Remington puts on those things.
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:43:47 AM
This definitely puts Bushmaster into Tier 1
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:44:47 AM
Originally Posted By Kharn: Very nice! MD requires a special license and an 8-day wait for ARs, so I bet they won't be in our stores. Kharn What? Man, that is fucked up.  |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:48:31 AM
Originally Posted By DSRV: Originally Posted By Roadhawk: OMG...it has the dreaded 30 round banana clip!  Walmert selling bullet hoses? Next thing you know they will be promoting the shoulder thing that goes up! FIFY The folks at the Brady Campaign will go crazy. Black machine guns at WM.  That's racist. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:48:48 AM
Hearing tales of how WallyWorld mandates manufacturer's pricing...and companies scaling back quality in materials and labor practices to meet these prices...I'll pass on buying fiearms there.....YMMV
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Posted: 10/9/2011 9:57:22 AM
Originally Posted By Kharn:
Very nice! MD requires a special license and an 8 7-day wait for ARs, so I bet they won't be in our stores. Kharn Fixed it for ya. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 12:51:11 PM
Walmarts around here seem to be all reworking their stores.
Smaller shelves, wider aisles and removing a few things. Ammo being one of those few things.
Guns vanished quite a few years ago due to some settlement between walmart and the state of Ca for improperly documented firearms sales (they turned in the store FFL in exchange for the state dropping some kind of lawsuit/civil action). But for the rest of you, yeah... Nothing says "common use" to me more then a product being available at wallyworld. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 12:59:04 PM
Originally Posted By Kharn:
Very nice! MD requires a special license and an 8-day wait for ARs, so I bet they won't be in our stores. Kharn I have an M16 and I don't have a special license. You need to move. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:09:47 PM
This is a good sign of the times. ARs at Wal Mart make me happy. The local ACE Hardware here has a huge gun room with all sorts of evil weapons. It's basically a full gun store inside the ACE complete with upgrade parts for many popular weapons. I go there for a $3 box of screws and come home with $1500 worth of guns and ammo. 
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:11:51 PM
Originally Posted By gmtmaster:
Originally Posted By Kharn:
Very nice! MD requires a special license and an 8-day wait for ARs, so I bet they won't be in our stores. Kharn I have an M16 and I don't have a special license. You need to move. You dont have a BATF tax stamp for your M16? 
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:12:42 PM
I don't shop at Wal-Mart, but I am very happy to see ARs sold there. Definitely ammo for the common usage argument, no pun intended.
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:15:49 PM
Awesome. I wont buy one there, but I still like to see it.
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:17:15 PM
Originally Posted By Sylvan:
lulz. You guys would stroke out up here. I'll get a pic one of these days. I miss it up there, everywhere sold guns. I got a $99 SKS at the BX. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 1:31:53 PM
Originally Posted By 556A2:
Originally Posted By Redarts:
What caused walmart to go back to selling them? $$$$$$$ AR-15s are big money these days. The only other firearm with as many makers is probably the 1911. They have a R-15 at my local Wal-Mart, and the other one started back selling firearms (used to only have ammo). Plus that whole "Common Usage" thing in Heller really helped us. Walmart is all about the profit. All the silliness about Walmart being commie liberals is BS. Really? The Largest retail organization in the world? They are the biggist capitalist Pigs in the world. Everything they sell is designed to maximize profit. U.S made, Chinese, whatever makes Walmart money. If you dobn't have guns in your local Walmart, it's because Walmart has determined that the profit margin is not there for stocking them there in your liberal, commie city. Walmarts are very regional oriented In town here they mimic Target. Go to a rural store and it looks like Redneck Disney World, tree stands, animal mounts and every hunting gun under the sun. Whatever make 'em a dime. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 5:09:51 PM
Originally Posted By Smithy:
Originally Posted By John87:
i really hope no one here would buy an ar from walmart. support your local fun store. walmart already has enough of your money. Most of the "fun stores" around me are run by greedy dipshits who let other dipshits (including cops) hang around because they think they are gun know-it-alls, but all they do is run customers off. And they over charge the shit out of people and get pissed when you want to do a transfer. I would rather go to Walmart and pay more for a gun, at least they admit they don't know shit about guns and don't have the gimp at the counter breathing down my neck. This COULD BE the beginning of going down down a slippery slope. Let's just say Wally World gets into AR's in a big, big way. Most AR owner's being frugal will usually buy at the least expensive place possible, which could very well end up Wally World. Well we've seen the devastation Wally World has virtually wiped out the mon n' pop retail stores, so what's to keep them from doing that here. How happy would you be if Wally World was the ONLY place in your community to buy an AR? Don't kid yourself. They have such a tremendous buying power, that they could easily be the controlling power of purchasing the AR platform for sale to the public. I'm convinced the mgmt. of WW won't be happy until they control virtually all mdse. purchases, and a good bit of the service industry first in the USA, then spread to other countries. It wouldn't surprise me if one day Wally World was selling Harley Davidson mototcycles. All I"m saying is Wally World are a greedy bunch of rattlesnakes that bear watching. Bang-Flop |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 5:14:27 PM
Originally Posted By Tango7: Still no guns on wally world shelves here.  Here either. |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 5:19:46 PM
I predict Walmart will never stock:
1. Lowers 2. AKs 3. Boutique ARs (LMT, RRA, 9mm, A1, etc) or other black rifles (FN, Robinson, etc, I bet the only reason they're stocking Bushmaster is because Bushmaster and Remington are owned by the same company so it wasn't like they needed to go do a contract with a company that only does black rifles) 4. High-end accessories (Magpul, etc) I wouldn't put AR mags on the list, I think they could go either way on selling 20/30 round mags in the store. But, they sell Mini14s and I've never spotted a >5rd Mini14 magazine in the store IIRC. Kharn |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 11:00:00 PM
Originally Posted By John87:
i really hope no one here would buy an ar from walmart. support your local fun store. walmart already has enough of your money. Screw that...I buy from whoever gets me the best deal for my money...But hey, some people call me an EVIL "CAPITOLIST"... |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 11:04:16 PM
Originally Posted By soonerman:
Originally Posted By parshooter:
Originally Posted By aquaman67:
Originally Posted By soonerman:
That's about the price I saw too on the one in the pic.I saw the "BMI AR-15" today here in Wal-mart in central Oklahoma... Price is like $867, I believe. What city, if you don't mind saying? Norman, OK I need to check the one in Moore..last I looked there gun displays were still not up |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 11:08:59 PM
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Good for Wal Mart.
These are the guns with the plastic bolt carriers right? |
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Posted: 10/9/2011 11:09:25 PM
Originally Posted By soonerman: Originally Posted By parshooter: Originally Posted By aquaman67: Originally Posted By soonerman: That's about the price I saw too on the one in the pic.I saw the "BMI AR-15" today here in Wal-mart in central Oklahoma... Price is like $867, I believe. What city, if you don't mind saying? Norman, OK $944 at Walmart in Bartlesville, OK.  They also had 3 ammo cans stacked up with Federal 5.56 - 420 rounds for $149. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 3:30:21 PM
Originally Posted By Redarts:
Inb4 people claim that Walmart is just selling junk factory second guns with no evidence
Wal Mart is just selling junk factory second guns. I have no evidence. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 3:37:39 PM
Originally Posted By AZFats:
I'll be excited when I can get an Eotech on black Friday for $199 Lol, that's something I'd stand in line and fight through a dozen fatties for. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 3:38:08 PM
Now the local gun store owners can buy their AR's at Walmart at the same time that they buy their ammo.
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Posted: 10/14/2011 3:48:15 PM
I expected the Fudd-15s but full blown terrorist rifles now?
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Posted: 10/14/2011 3:49:45 PM
Interesting- I might have to check our local WM this weekend.
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Posted: 10/14/2011 3:58:19 PM
Originally Posted By sleepdr:
Originally Posted By cervelorider:
was it $627 or was that the mini-14? Looks to me like the $627 tag says Ruger Mini 14 Ranch. It does. Wal Mart is selling the Bushmaster patrolman carbine for $897 at several Wal Marts I've visited this week. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:02:33 PM
Someone needs to help that poor girl in the back seat. She is having a seizure. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:15:02 PM
Originally Posted By Furious:
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Originally Posted By Kharn:
Very nice! MD requires a special license and an 8-day wait for ARs, so I bet they won't be in our stores. Kharn I have an M16 and I don't have a special license. You need to move. You dont have a BATF tax stamp for your M16?
a tax stamp is just proof of registration and that tax was paid. it is NOT a license. i also do not have a "special license" for my RR M-16 |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:26:25 PM
Originally Posted By Backnblack:
Originally Posted By Kharn:
Very nice! MD requires a special license and an 8 7-day wait for ARs, so I bet they won't be in our stores. Kharn Fixed it for ya. I do think, or at least there used to be, an exception for flat top ARs and HBARs. I bought my first AR at a gunshow in MD as a WV resident, I couldnt buy the 20" A2 I wanted but did get a bushmaster varmiter, no wait. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:30:08 PM
I went to two walmarts today looking for the American Eagle 5.56 ammo ( $5.96 a box btw ), the closest to me didnt have an AR on the shelf or the ammo I wanted, the one on the other end of town had a Bushmaster patrolman carbine on the shelf, $879. Had my ammo as well, bought 6 boxes.
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:31:48 PM
Only problem is you have to go to wal-mart.
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:38:42 PM
Originally Posted By John87:
i really hope no one here would buy an ar from walmart. support your local fun store. walmart already has enough of your money.
Capitalism, how does it work? Occupy Wall St. Much? Just because someone is 'small' or 'local' does not mean they deserve my dollars over anybody else, likewise for the opposite. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 4:41:41 PM
Originally Posted By P400: Now the local gun store owners can buy their AR's at Walmart at the same time that they buy their ammo. Zing, probably wouldn't affect their resale prices either. |
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Posted: 10/14/2011 10:10:09 PM
Saw one today at our local wally world
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Posted: 10/14/2011 10:22:10 PM
I never had any doubt they would be there. Only a matter of time.
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Posted: 10/14/2011 10:35:56 PM
Originally Posted By discworld717:
Originally Posted By sleepdr:
Originally Posted By cervelorider:
was it $627 or was that the mini-14? Looks to me like the $627 tag says Ruger Mini 14 Ranch. That's a really good price for a mini and very close to wholesale. It might be a really good price for a Mini 14 Ranch Rifle but it is still $300.00 more than it is worth.
I was surprised to see the AR in the pic was black and not a Camo R15. 
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BigDozer66
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Posted: 10/14/2011 10:37:49 PM
Originally Posted By AKengineer:
Originally Posted By discworld717:
Originally Posted By sleepdr:
Originally Posted By cervelorider:
was it $627 or was that the mini-14? Looks to me like the $627 tag says Ruger Mini 14 Ranch. That's a really good price for a mini and very close to wholesale. Walmart probably pays some insanely low price by ordering them literally by the thousands. They are probably factory seconds!
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Posted: 10/14/2011 10:38:17 PM
Saw one tonight at the Walmart here. Almost $900. Bushmaster.
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