More Wal-Mart stock guns

Wal-Mart stopped selling guns to about 500 of its 3,600 stores in 2006 Wal-Mart told us, it will soon bring the sale of weapons, firearms, including rifles and shotguns, more than 500 of its U.S. stores.

Giant retail ceased to sell weapons to fire hundreds of its 3 600 stores us in 2006, citing slumping consumer demand.

But a spokesman said guns would be tantamount to the shelves in the "framework of the overall thrust to bring 8000 products."

Thursday news comes two months after Wal-Mart announced a decrease in seventh straight quarterly sales us.

Hunting and fishing

Wal-Mart goes stocking more goods in a wide range of its stores in an effort to "offer customers the widest assortment of our possible products", spokesman Lorenzo Lopez told the BBC.

He added that firearms should be part of this thrust, which, he said, it had been planned for the month.

"A few years back... we were trying to streamline the assortment," Mr. Lopez said, referring to the decision in 2006 to stop firearms storage in many Wal-Mart stores.

Wal-Mart currently sells rifles, hunting rifles and ammunition to about 1,000 of its locations in the United States.

Which will increase to about half its 3,600 us stores under the changes described Thursday.

Mr. Lopez said that Wal-Mart is concentrated on the regions of the country where the hunting and fishing are popular.

Canon followed by the Federal Government sales grew more than 12% in the first quarter of 2011. However, growth has mainly been seen in handguns, Wal-Mart does not.