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Meme Misleads on Walmart Gun Sales

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A social media meme inaccurately claims that Walmart will no longer sell rifles. Walmart stopped selling “military-style rifles such as the AR-15,” in 2015, and has announced it will no longer sell ammunition for “military-style weapons.” It still sells “long guns for hunting and sport shooting.”


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After this summer, Walmart that it would stop selling handguns in the only remaining state where the

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