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  • 2022-09-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Did an Old Toys 'R' Us Building Later Become a Gun Store? (en)
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  • On Sept. 21, 2022, Twitter user @patriottakes tweeted, This old Toys 'R' Us location in Yuma, Arizona is now a gun store. The tweet displayed two pictures. One of the photos displayed the old Toys R Us sign, and the second picture showed the same building later as a gun store, Firearms Unknown, still with the former toy store's colorful rainbow extending over its entrance, exit, and front windows. This was all true. A second tweet also showed how signage near a main road was updated from Toys R Us and Barnes & Noble to instead show the company name, Firearms Unknown, as well as Guns & Ammo. The second picture appeared to come from Yelp. The address of the building was listed as 801 W. 32nd St. in Yuma. According to Google Maps, the old Toys R Us was still empty and unoccupied as of March 2021. In February 2022, the building reopened as Firearms Unknown. Photographs of the inside of the store showed walls of guns and ammunition in the same space where children and their parents used to browse toys. On July 8, a Facebook user posted about the contrast between the building's former and more recent owners, saying, Many many years ago, this used to be a Toys 'R' Us. Not anymore. I find it humorous that they kept the color scheme outside of the building. #pride #guns. When did the Yuma Toys R Us store close? According to the Yuma Sun, the toy store appeared to have shuttered around April 2018, and many other store closures for the toy retailer followed as the company faced bankruptcy. The Sun's newspaper article was published on Jan. 25, 2018, and began, in part, as follows: In sum, it's true that a building in Yuma that was formerly occupied by a Toys R Us store for children later became the gun store Firearms Unknown. (en)
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