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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like how they make this sound like it's unusual.

Walmart sold ammo for years, and here, local chains like Bi-Mart still do.

The only interesting bit is the vending machine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Outside of the rural south this is very unusual

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I live in a progressive urban area far from the Southern US. I can think of at least 2 different stores near me that sell groceries and ammunition. From my experience, groceries + ammo is pretty common for many big-box stores in the suburbs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I stand corrected. I don’t think I’ll understand the south’s love of guns

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's for them to rise up and defend themselves if the US government ever gets authoritarian.

Well, unless it's their kind of authoritarian. You know, white Christofascist ethnostate authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

In pretty sure our canadian walmarts sold ammo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Every Walmart outside of the big city sells ammo in my blue state, then again there aren't any Walmarts in the big city.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Walmart sells ammunition in more than half of their stores.