Walmart increases age for arms to 21

Supermarket chain Walmart stops selling weapons and ammunition for people under the age of 21.

Walmart already stopped selling finger arms and semi-automatic weapons in 2015, such as the AR-15. This was the weapon that the shooter Nikolas Cruz used to create a massacre at a school in Parkland, Florida. Since the shooting in Parkland, there has been a fierce debate in the US about stricter weapons legislation.

'We take our duty to be a responsible seller of weapons very seriously and now go further than federal law, by making it mandatory for consumers to go through a check,' the chain says in a statement.