Walmart reports strong earnings, defends gun sales

Walmart reported improved results Thursday on solid US sales and e-commerce growth and again defended its decision to keep selling some guns after a mass shooting at a Texas store.

Comparable sales in the U.S. rose 2.8 percent, while U.S. e-commerce sales surged 37 percent.

Walmart has limited some firearms sales over the years following mass shootings, halting sales of military-style weapons in 2015 and raising the age limit to purchase a firearm to 21 in 2018 after an attack at a Florida school.

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