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Walmart halts gun sales in California

In California, Wal Mart stores statewide have agreed to temporarily halt gun sales following the findings by the attorney general’s office that six Central Valley stores had committed 500 violations of the state’s gun laws, including selling weapons to felons and releasing firearms to buyers before the end of the required 10-day waiting period.

“There have been a number of changes in firearms laws in California over the past two years,” said Wal-Mart spokesman Robert McAdam. “All the violations are not in the nature of giving guns to people that shouldn’t have them. Most of the violations have to do with our failure to complete the proper forms or to complete the forms in their entirety.”

The most common violations included failure to electronically scan buyers’  drivers licenses, failure to obtain thumbprints and selling before the end of the waiting period.

McAdam says many of the waiting period violations occurred because the employee  started the clock the day the customer came into the store, rather than on the following day as mandated by law.