Let me rephrase it: Why did no one at Walmart realize that something was wrong with this picture before allowing customers to see it?
Maybe they didn’t notice that someone had messed with the sign until someone pointed it out.
You think someone messed with the sign??
Absolutely, what would the alternative be? That Walmart intended to label guns as back to school items? For what purpose, what would they stand to gain? I’d bet it’s either an edgelord customer who thought it would be funny (similar to moving the Bible to the fiction section in a bookstore) or a rogue employee that doesn’t give a shit about his soul-crushing job and really can’t wait to be fired. I’d say the the former is much more likely than the latter, but it’s still a possibility. Either way, low level employee is as far up the ladder as it goes.