BUSINESS & AG LIFE
2B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Walmart
says it will discontinue the
sale of handgun ammunition
and also publicly request
that customers refrain from
openly carrying firearms in
stores even where state laws
allow it.
The announcement comes
just days after a mass shoot-
ing claimed seven lives in
Odessa, Texas and follows
two other back-to-back
shootings last month, one of
them at a Walmart store.
The Bentonville, Arkan-
sas-based discounter said
Tuesday it will stop selling
short-barrel and handgun
ammunition after it runs out
of its current inventory. It
will also discontinue hand-
gun sales in Alaska, marking
its complete exit from hand-
guns and allowing it to focus
on hunting rifles and related
ammunition only.
“We have a long heritage
as a company of serving
responsible hunters and
sportsmen and women, and
we’re going to continue doing
so,” according to a memo
by Walmart’s CEO Doug
McMillon that will be circu-
lated to employees Tuesday
afternoon.
Walmart is further
requesting that custom-
ers refrain from openly
carrying firearms at its
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new car? Did you just get hit with a big
medical bill? Now’s the time to figure
out how that fits into your financial
plan.
—Thorn: Talk openly and honestly
about any challenges getting in the way
of your goals.
—Earth: This is the big picture stuff
— your goals and visions for the future,
a Group and any steps you need to take to
achieve them.
Stick to your time, even if you don’t
- get to everything on your agenda. Bet-
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Station will serve lunches
starting at 11 a.m. and
dinners in the restaurant
between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The bar will be open from
11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday
through Thursday and from
11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and
Saturday.
Although the Smiths are
starting out with lunches
and dinners, “We’re going to
introduce a breakfast menu
beginning Sept. 7 and 8,”
stores unless they are law
enforcement officers. Last
month, a gunman entered
a Walmart store in El Paso,
Texas and killed 22 people
using an AK-style firearm
that Walmart already bans
the sale of. Texas became an
open carry state in 2016, al-
lowing people to openly carry
firearms in public.
Walmart’s moves will
reduce its market share of
ammunition from around
20% to a range of about 6%
to 9%, according to Tuesday’s
memo. About half of its more
than 4,000 U.S. stores sell
firearms.
The nation’s largest
retailer has been facing in-
ter to carry things over than to carry on
for hours, getting tired and frustrated
as the meeting drags on.
“You’re not going to solve everything
in the first meeting, or the third, or
maybe even the 10th,” O’Keefe says.
“Write down the things you still need
to talk about and come away from each
meeting with an action plan.”
3. SET THE MOOD
Turn off your phones. Turn off the TV.
Turn on some music. Pour yourselves
a drink — wine, beer, White Claw, you
pick. Sit down next to each other and
talk.
“You want to get into the good vibes
Randy said.
The Elgin Station cur-
rently employs 15 part-time
workers, 14 of whom live in
Elgin. They are also hiring
Oscar Tenario of Eugene as
their kitchen manager. He
will be joining the staff the
first week of September.
“We’re always looking for
good people,” Randy said.
The Elgin Station may
be reached during business
house at 541-437-0100, and,
Phill added, they will be open
every day except Thanksgiv-
ing and Christmas.
creasing pressure to change
its gun policies by gun con-
trol activists, employees and
politicians after the El Paso
shooting and a second un-
related shooting in Dayton,
Ohio that killed nine people.
A few days before that, two
Walmart workers were
killed by another worker at
a store in Southaven, Mis-
sissippi.
In the aftermath of the
El Paso shooting, Walmart
ordered workers to remove
video game signs and
displays that depict violence
from stores nationwide.
But that fell well short of
demands for the retailer to
stop selling firearms entirely.
of your relationship unit,” Mattenson
says. “Sitting next to each other, it’s like
the two of you working together on an
issue, rather than against each other.”
Agree to be honest, kind and judg-
ment-free. And be attentive to any ten-
sion bubbling up. If you’re getting tense
or your partner is getting defensive, call
a timeout. Acknowledge the tension, de-
fuse it (a hug does wonders, Mattenson
says) and get back to your agenda.
“If you get into negative talk, pause
and go back to kind words,” Mattenson
says. “Remind yourselves that the most
important thing is the relationship and
that you’re in it together.”
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