In the wake of a recent deadly shooting in an El Paso, Texas Walmart, customers and employees of the company are pressuring it to reconsider its position on selling guns.
But despite two deadly shootings in two different stores, Walmart has not yet announced a change in its gun sales policies. And some are getting frustrated, taking to social media with the hashtag #boycottwalmart. A petition created by gun-control advocacy group Guns Down America is urging Walmart to remove all guns from its stores, though it is unclear how many signatures it has.
Attention is now also turning to other large chain retailers that sell guns.
The anti-Trump and generally progressive #grabyourwallet social media campaign has added stores that sell guns to people under 21 years old or assault-style weapons to the list of companies on their radar. Organizer Shannon Coulter urged people via Twitter to reach out to Academy Sports, Bass Pro Shops, and more to call for a change in their policies
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Federal law requires only that customers intending to buy a gun be over 18 years old and pass a background check. But some big box stores already have changed their rules about gun sales to make it more stringent than that.
Big-box retailers like Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart changed their policies after pressure from activists in the wake the of the 2018 Parkland, Florida shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that claimed 17 lives. Policy changes included raising age minimums for gun purchases and stopping the sale of certain weapons.
The Kroger-owned Fred Meyers chain stopped selling guns altogether in 2018 after customer feedback and declining sales convinced management it wasn't worth keeping them around in its 45 stores.
Walmart is one of the largest sellers of firearms in the country, NPR reported. Mass shooters often buy their guns at local non-chain gun stores, though sometimes they get them from private sellers, gun control advocate David Chipman told NPR.
Despite the mounting pressure due to recent events, no stores have announced any recent policy changes related to gun or ammo sales.
Representatives for the companies in the list did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
Here are the policies of seven major stores that still sell firearms in the US.