Stat, if you really think about it, gunshops aren't hurting much if you buy guns from walmart. If you think of where a gun shops major regular income comes from, you'll see why. Shops live on little stuff, ammo mostly. While a good week might see 10-15guns sold, it's going to see a hundred boxes of ammo, a bipod, a scope or two, a few cleaning kits, some gun oil, a set of mounts, a few slings and holsters, etc. Guns are expensive, but their mark up usually isn't huge, so while they make $100 on one gun, they only make about $2000 a week on guns, which isn't half of what they'd make on their other stuff.

Walmart also doesn't sell handguns, used guns, or "fancy" guns, if you really look at what they sell, they don't have much of anything. They've got basically only the guns a beginning shooter/hunter would want or need. If gunshops stopped carrying every gun that walmart sold, they likely wouldn't be hurting much. Certainly not as much as they'd have you think.

I've worked at a few and my old man was a silent partner in two when I was younger, I know a bit of the ins and outs, and while they do lose business to Walmart on bread and butter stuff, the fact that they still have the cream keeps them afloat.

Basically Walmart only speeds up their death, it doesn't kill them. If they die because of walmart, they were going under in the first place.