http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/13/1364246/-A-New-York-church-is-challenging-Walmart-s-sale-of-high-capacity-gun-magazines?detail=email
New York City's Trinity Church, one of the wealthiest churches in the world with over $2 billion in real estate holdings, is taking on Walmart by using their status as a shareholder:
The church’s rector, Rev. Dr. James Cooper, says he isn’t seeking a ban on the sale of assault weapons at Walmart. Rather, he’s fighting to force the world’s largest retailer to include a shareholder proposal in this April’s proxy materials, to be voted on at this summer’s annual meeting.
Trinity’s proposal would require Walmart’s board to oversee the sale of “products that especially endanger public safety and well-being, risk impairing the company’s reputation, or offend the family and community values integral to the company’s brand,” as the document first filed with the Security and Exchange Commission last year reads.
The action to move Walmart to more oversight was taken after parishioners expressed outrage in the wake of recent mass shootings. Rev. Cooper began doing research:
Davis was keen to learn how the retailer decides, for instance, that it won’t sell CDs with Parental Advisory warning labels, but will sell assault rifles with the capacity for 30 rounds of ammunition.
“If it were a video with somebody shooting up a school, or a rap song with somebody talking about shooting up a school, they wouldn’t sell it,” he said. “So why sell the gun? It doesn’t make sense.”
this is interesting most notable looks like NRA has no voice here if so it would not be a regulatory issue. good analogy about the videos not selling because of violence but selling the instruments of that violence. the game video will be seen regardless online and bootleg so the gun being the final acquisition before the ultimate acts they are doing little to support their not selling the videos in fact offering the the final nail in somebody's coffin. to much money in guns for them to just pack up but hopefully this move by the church will force their hand and make it more difficult to kill another with a gun. wonder what enthusiast will chose God or gun???
