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Apr 15, 2008 11:17 am US/Eastern

Bloomberg Supports Wal-Mart Toughening Gun Stance

Gun Rights Activists Oppose Targeting Of Legal Sellers

WASHINGTON (AP) ― New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is applauding Wal-Mart for toughening it's regulations for selling guns. Wal-Mart is the nation's largest seller of firearms.

The store says it will make videos of purchases and create an internal log so guns they sell can be traced if later used in crimes.

Mayor Bloomberg has been leading a national campaign called "Mayors Against Illegal Guns."

Wal-Mart didn't say how low it would take to implement the changes in its eleven hundred stores.

The National Rifle Association denounced the company's move. CEO Wayne LaPierre said politicians worried about gun crime should go after illegal gun dealers, not legal sellers.

Bloomberg urged other companies to join Wal-Mart in the initiative called the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership.

The mayors' gun summit also unveiled a new lobbying effort to close what they call the "gun show loophole," which allows sales of firearms without background checks between private individuals at gun shows.

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