Wal-Mart Guide to Holiday Gun Buying

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Wal-Mart Guide to Holiday Gun Buying

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) sells guns, and sells a lot of them. Regardless of opinions on gun control, people who want a gun should check out the rifles shown at Walmart.com. These guns are, however, only available in stores. Christmas is over. That does not mean some of the most popular guns Wal-Mart sells are not on sale (if Wal-Mart offers gun discounts at all).

The guns Walmart sells are considered part of its “Outdoor Sport” department.

Wal-Mart has a large selection of Remington rifles, among the most popular in the United States. Included among those available in Wal-Mart stores:

  • Remington Pump Shotgun 870 Express Combo
  • Remington 770 Rifle with Scope, .308 Win
  • Remington 870 Express Youth Shotgun, 20ga

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Some of the guns are built by Savage:

  • Savage Axis 270 Bolt Rifle, Camo
  • Savage Axis 7mm-08 Bolt Rifle SS

For those who need to find the closest Wal-Mart, Walmart.com does have a store locator. However, many of the guns we looked for were out of stock.

Walmart CEO Douglas McMillon told CNN that “Our focus in terms of firearms should be hunters and people who shoot sporting clays, and things like that. So the types of rifles we sell, the types of ammunition we sell, should be curated for those things.”

However, Wal-Mart remains one of the better places in the United States to buy guns, for hunters at least.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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