Rev. Dr. James Cooper, Rector of Trinity Wall Street Church, wants investors to be able to question Wal-Mart’s gun sales policies. (Photo: NY Daily News) A federal judge ordered Wal-Mart to let shareholders vote on a proposal for tighter oversight for selling firearms with high-capacity magazines and other potentially offensive products. U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark ruled last week in favor of Trinity Church, which filed the lawsuit in April after the retail giant refused the proposal and the Securities and Exchange Commission said it would not punish Wal-Mart for excluding it.

Stark, a 2010-appointment to the District of Delaware by President Obama, …read more