A Walmart in Bentonville, Ark., on Black Friday last year. The retailer is halting sales of assault rifles.Walmart said on Wednesday that it would no longer sell high-powered rifles in its stores in the United States. The decision followed years of public pressure on the retailer to stop selling som …

“Our public money must not be invested in companies that fundamentally undermine our public safety.”NEW YORK — New York City may divest hundreds of millions of dollars from Walmart and other big-name stores that sell guns and ammunition less than two years after it yanked investments in the country’ …