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Stop with your thoughts & prayers, STOP SELLING WEAPONS ACCESSORIES AT WALMART!@iche_me @CitizensFedUp @exoticgamora @TaggartRehnn @moveover4me2 @ShopSmartResist @stuffbusted @MsEmmaPeele @davidhogg111 @Emma4Change @GunDeaths @CSGV @EFSGV @ZeroGunViolence Please, RT4change pic.twitter.com/MBB0bkKkb4

— Im_The_Dude_Man🖕 (@ImTheDudeMan1) August 4, 2019

How many Walmart shootings will it take for you to stop selling guns?

— Dave Hogg (@stareagle) August 3, 2019

Boycott Walmart and every other non-specialist store until they stop selling murder weapons for profit.

— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) August 3, 2019

Actress Alyssa Milano and venture capitalist Chris Sacca were among the prominent Twitter users to urge Walmart to stop carrying guns.

Hey, @Walmart! This would be a great opportunity for you to take a true leadership position and stop selling guns. https://t.co/JcQ6BvTbUe

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 3, 2019

Hey @walmart, maybe you could, hmm, I don’t know, stop selling guns? https://t.co/DqsbR7PnJ7

— Chris Sacca (@sacca) August 3, 2019

Walmart announced in 2015 that it would stop selling AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles, and in February 2018, following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and staff members were killed, Walmart was among multiple chains that announced it would raise the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21.

In addition, Walmart requires background checks to purchase a gun and has stopped selling toys that look like assault rifles -- including airsoft guns.

There is no evidence to suggest the alleged gunman in the recent shootings purchased weapons at a Walmart.

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Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove declined to comment on the recent outcry but told ABC News that the company has been a \"responsible firearms retailer.\"

\"Our focus has been on being a responsible seller of firearms, and we have policies and guidelines that are within federal and state laws and even exceed them,\" Hargrove said.

Hargrove said Walmart requires customers looking to purchase firearms must pass a background check before a sale is completed.

\"We make sure that background check gets passed,\" Hargrove said. \"That's just one example of what we do.\"

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence states on its website that a \"dangerous gap in our federal gun laws lets people buy guns without passing a background check.\"

Representatives for the National Rifle Association, Everytown for Gun Safety and Brady, a gun violence prevention advocacy group, did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

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