Wal-Mart ammunition limit: three boxes a day
Walmart has started to limit sales of ammunition to three boxes per customer per day due to limited supplies, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Sales of guns and ammunition have risen across the United States since the Dec. 14 shooting at a Newtown,聽Conn.,聽elementary school.
Walmart U.S., is the largest unit of聽Wal-Mart聽Stores Inc聽the world's largest retailer and the largest U.S. gun seller. The聽Bentonville,聽Arkansas-based retailer had said that it works to strike the right balance between serving hunters and sportsmen and ensuring that it sells firearms 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聽told Reuters on Wednesday.
Walmart was a charter member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's coalition against illegal guns and adopted a 10-point code established by the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership that goes beyond what the law requires.
Data released on Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Instant Criminal Background Check System showed that nine of the top 10 days for firearms checks from Nov. 30, 1998, to Jan. 27, 2013, including Dec. 14, 2012, occurred since聽Adam Lanza聽killed 20 children and six adults at聽Sandy Hook Elementary School聽and then shot and killed himself. Lanza also killed his mother before the school massacre.
The Wal-Mart ammunition limit was reported earlier by The City Wire, an聽Arkansas聽news outlet.聽
