Smith’s stores in Utah will stop carrying magazines about ‘assault rifles’

A Utah gun-rights advocate is criticizing a move by a national supermarket chain — which operates Smith’s Food and Drug stores across Utah — to take magazines featuring so-called “assault rifles” off its news racks.“It’s an ill-conceived idea to restrict the First Amendment,” Clark Aposhian, chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, said Monday.The Kroger supermarket chain, based in Cincinnati, announced last week it would begin removing magazi