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Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods put new limits on gun sales

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Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc, one of the US’s largest sports sellers, is ending the sale of all assault-style weapons in its stores in the wake of the recent massacre at a high school in Florida.

Later Wednesday, Walmart joined Dick’s in tightening company controls on gun sales, raising the minimum age at which customers could buy firearms and ammunition to 21 years. The US retail company, which stopped selling assault-style weapons in 2015, said in a statement that it was also removing items from its website resembling such weapons, including non-lethal airsoft guns and toys.

“We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms and go beyond Federal law by requiring customers to pass a background check before purchasing any firearm,” Walmart said, adding: “Our heritage as a company has always been in serving sportsmen and hunters, and we will continue to do so in a responsible way.”

Dick’s CEO Ed Stack, in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, said the company would no longer sell assault-style firearms or high-capacity magazines. “We’re taking these guns out of all of our stores permanently,” Stack said. He also announced that Dick’s would impose a ban on sales of guns to those under age 21.


Source :- theguardian
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