Wal-Mart to end sales of assault-style rifles in US

By Hiroko Tabuchi
Updated August 27 2015 - 3:13pm, first published 2:15pm
A Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas. The retailer is halting sales of assault rifles.  Photo: Gunnar Rathbun/Invision for Walmart, via Associated Press
A Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas. The retailer is halting sales of assault rifles. Photo: Gunnar Rathbun/Invision for Walmart, via Associated Press
Walmart said its stores in the United States would stop selling modern sporting rifles, which are like the AR-15 assault rifle, above, but are refashioned for the hunting market.  Photo: Credit Alex Brandon/Associated Press
Walmart said its stores in the United States would stop selling modern sporting rifles, which are like the AR-15 assault rifle, above, but are refashioned for the hunting market. Photo: Credit Alex Brandon/Associated Press

Wal-Mart said Wednesday that it would no longer sell high-powered rifles in its US stores. The decision followed years of public pressure on the retailer to stop selling some of the most lethal weapons associated with many of the nation's mass shootings.

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