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Kroger joins other big retailers, tightens gun restrictions

Bagged purchases from the Kroger grocery store in Flowood, Miss., sit inside this shopping cart on June 15, 2017. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
A person exits a Kroger grocery store in Flowood, Miss. on June 15, 2017. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
Bagged purchases from the Kroger grocery store in Flowood, Miss., sit inside this shopping cart on June 15, 2017. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
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Kroger is raising the minimum age to buy guns at its Fred Meyer stores, the third major retailer to place restrictions on gun sales that exceed federal law.

Like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods a day earlier, Kroger says it will immediately limit gun and ammunition sales to people 21 and older.

The nation’s largest grocery chain said Thursday that recent events show that gun retailers need to take action.

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Fred Meyer sells guns at 44 stores in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. Assault-style guns sales were ended everywhere but Alaska several years ago. Special orders for those guns are now unavailable in Alaska.

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