In the wake of many gun violence acts in recent months-none more horrendous then the Sandy Hook School shooting that took place in December. Wal-Mart announced its new policy to "limit sales of ammunition to three boxes per customer..." said a Wal-Mart spokeswoman on Wednesday, according to The New York Daily News.
However, the limitation of ammunition isn't for the reason one might think-"due to limited supplies," the spokeswoman said, according to The New York Times.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer and U.S. gun seller has claimed that it is working towards a balance between serving hunters and selling guns responsibly,
"In order to take care of as many customers as possible, starting Thursday, Jan. 24, all ammunition sales were limited to three boxes per customer, per day as supply is limited at this time," spokeswoman Ashley Hardie told Reuters on Wednesday,
The statement doesn't seem to say much, but to their credit, Wal-Mart was a charter member of Mayor Bloomberg's coalition against guns. They even adopted a 10-point code established by the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership that "goes beyond what the law requires," according to The New York Daily News.
Sales of guns and ammunition have skyrocketed in recent months, "you can't find a stock of .22 or 9-mm ammunition for sale anywhere in this town. For every box of .22s, you have 100 people who want that box," said Jay Hill, owner of Classic Arms, an 8-employee shop in Cordova, Memphis, according to finance.comcast.net.
Rhode Island gun writer Robert Farago, publisher of the blog, The Truth About Guns.com, said, "It's kind of a perfect storm. Its part of a general fear in the country. It's not specific to ammo."
Last week, when a father of a Sandy Hook School shooting victim spoke during a meeting about gun control, many gun-activists scolded him, which begin the debate on all of the 24-hour news networks-are guns that important that they would yell at a father who just lost his young son?
Having the "right to bear arms" (U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment) is one thing, but when profit gets in the way of life-affirming measures-when is enough, enough?
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