Several other chains have followed suit. I can carry until you tell me not to. A spokesperson for Walmart tells TIME that management will soon receive guidance and training on exactly how to deal with customers who walk in to a store with a weapon. If people report feeling uncomfortable, however, managers would follow various protocols to resolve the situation, the spokesperson said.
At CVS, the details on its new announcement are still being hammered out, according to a company spokesperson. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management, says that as private businesses, Walmart and other stores have the right to post signage completely banning firearms and to enforce that rule through trespassing laws and other regulations. However, there are exceptions. Retailers will still allow law enforcement officers to openly carry firearms.
Get the latest news, sports and weather delivered straight to your inbox. Click here to sign up for email and text alerts. If someone opts to openly carry a gun into one of its stores, it's up to the store manager's discretion as to how to react.
In states like Alaska or Wyoming, where "open-carry" is more common, the manager might pull the customer aside and ask him or her to leave the gun in their vehicle the next time, the spokesperson said.
But the reaction might be stronger "if it's a situation where it's causing alarm," he said. In addition, Walmart will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition, such as. The company will also end sales of handgun ammunition. The actions are Walmart's first major moves since shootings in stores in Texas and Mississippi killed 24 people. Until Tuesday, its only response involved clearing its stores of violent video game displays.
Before the carnage in El Paso, two Walmart workers were shot to death in July by another employee at a store in Southaven, Mississippi. Walmart stopped selling assault-style weapons in and raised the minimum age to buy firearms and ammunition to 21, from 18, in It stopped selling handguns everywhere but in Alaska in , and ended its sales of rifles like the AR in
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