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Walmart, the country’s largest retailer, announced Tuesday that it will stop selling handgun ammunition and ammunition used in assault-style weapons.

The company will also request that customers no longer openly carry guns in its 4,700 U.S. locations or its Sam's Club stores.

Walmart will continue to sell rifles, shotguns, and the ammunition for those firearms.

"It's clear to us that the status quo is unacceptable," Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a memo to employees on Tuesday.

"We will treat law-abiding customers with respect, and we will have a very non-confrontational approach," McMillon added. "Our remaining assortment will be even more focused on the needs of hunting and sport shooting enthusiasts."

Walmart is also encouraging Congress to "move forward and strengthen background checks to remove weapons from those who have been determined to pose an imminent danger."

Do you support Walmart ending handgun ammunition sales?

On the Radar

McConnell Says Senate GOP Would ‘Absolutely’ Fill a 2020 SCOTUS Vacancy

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday reiterated that Senate Republicans would “absolutely” confirm a new Supreme Court justice if a vacancy occurs in the midst of next year’s presidential election.

McConnell has been criticized by Democrats for blocking President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016 following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. In an interview with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt, the Senate majority leader said that a prospective 2019-2020 nomination could go forward because there is no longer divided government:

“You have to go back to [the] 1880s to find the last time a Senate of a different party from the president filled a Supreme Court vacancy created in the middle of a presidential election," McConnell said. "That was entirely the precedent… So look, they can whine about this all day long. But under the Constitution, there is co-responsibility for appointments.”

Should the Senate confirm a SCOTUS justice if there’s a 2020 vacancy? 

Under the Radar

Dorian Gray-Market

As Hurricane Dorian begins battering Florida, states of emergency have been declared in the Sunshine State, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Governors and Attorneys General in the states are warning against price gouging.

We're continuing to update this story. But on Tuesday, we asked:

"If you support a free-market system, why shouldn’t businesses be allowed to charge whatever price consumers are willing to pay?"

Here's how you answered:

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Should businesses be allowed to price gouge?

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