Walmart laws

[geargnasher]

A few months ago, I got carded for masking tape at an Ace Hardware store that I've been shopping at with my own money since I was six years old. I'm 36 and probably look it. I noticed they never card me for using my Visa, even though I wrote "see photo ID" in the signature line.

Masking tape? Really? What's next, mouthwash?

Gear

[geargnasher]

The mistake you refer to was made in 1934. The Constitution is fairly clear on the point, "...shall not be infringed." No conditions, no limitations, no exceptions.

Restoration of Constitutional government as established by the framers SHOULD be the first and only priority of our elected officials and if it was they'd have no reason to fear the Second Amendment.

No one has ever put it better than that. You should send that to the NRA and they should make it their slogan.

Gear

[Bret4207]

I pick up a mixed bag of dropped 22s the only issues I've had w/any of them save 10 or so of the last couple 1000 was dirty guns ,and damaged parts. Recoil spring in 1 firing pin in another.

Wal mart is special ,about 3 years ago just and hr or so before opening day shooting hrs a greeter stops me on my way out and says "sure glad that holster is empty I couldn't have let you in",no laws resticting open carry here unless posted as out side of the business and Clark county. They carded me for booze on my 45th birthday ,we have this new drivers license system I didn't have the new 1 yet the old 1 had expired and my inbetween paper work was not readable enough for them. so they declined to sell to me . The guy behind me says I'll get man this is stupid , the cleck flag a manager that reads this guy the straw purchase riot act finishing w/and don't think I won't call police. Really. Serious,it really happened.

Wow, I'm going to remember this the next time someone tells me how dumb NYs laws are!

[jcwit]

Whats the problem with masking tape?

[shaune509]

Two years back family and I areat Wlly's world after christmas and the 12 yo son picked out an Airsoft pistol, go to the check out and I with the 3yo in my arms walk just past the son as he is at the till, the teller says he can't get the gun as to young, I step up and say I as the parent allow it, the teller says he can not get it as he is handing her the cash. I put the fussy 3yu on the table take money from son and hand to teller, she still says 'HE' is the buyer and does not want to close the sale, well I sortove went off on her in a raised voice as that I would never buy any toy like this for my self and it would always be for a kid. Then some other teller yelled over to do the sale and we left. Waltens Mercantile is not my faverate place but some times they are the only place just bugs me more that the employies can not use some brain matter.
shaune509

[Harter66]

It probably flagged as paint ,there are lots of city/county ordinances all over about markers and paint they are favorites of taggers and grafitti artists. Sometimes its even limited to zone areas w/in cities.

[Bullet Caster]

That is the most ridiculous store policy I've ever heard about. You need to move to TN as I can go into a Wally World and buy all the ammo I want and am never carded. If they did card me, I'd just show my CCW permit. So far haven't had a hard time buying ammo at Wally World. And as far as the now generation there's always the good, bad and the ugly--but I'd like to think that there are more good than the other two. BC

[starmac]

Wow, I'm going to remember this the next time someone tells me how dumb NYs laws are!

Bret this is happening in several states, I saw it happen here and have heard of it in several states. I know in NM it doesn't matter if you are 99 and look it, ni id no sale and folks can be busted for buying it for you.

here they have a different picture or something on a license if you are convicted of a dui that makes beer sales illegal. I'm not sure how it works.

[starmac]

Are some wallmarts still requiring a fingerprint when you write a check, that is the one that I couldn't go for.

[Bret4207]

NY is looking relatively sane in several areas then!

[Ickisrulz]

NY is looking relatively sane in several areas then!

My father, in his 60s, gets asked for ID at a Wal-Mart in NY. But, I don't think that has anything to do with the law there.

I grew up in NY (near Saratoga Springs). It is so nice in Upstate NY. It makes me sad that I cannot even think about living there. Taxes are way too high. Gun laws are outragous. Cost of living...too high.

Then there's the grudge I carry against the state for making me pay child support on a woman (my unmarried daughter raised by my ex-wife) with two kids until she was 21.

[ErikO]

Only trouble I have with buying ammo at a Walmart here in St Louis is finding someone with the derned key. lol

[Rangefinder]

Wow, and I thought the Wal-mart down the road was a little 'off' for requiring ID when I bought empty plastic ammo storage boxes. I asked the woman if she would card me again if I ran over to housewares and bought a couple tupperware sandwich containers. I got glared at. I said "same damned thing, isn't it--a couple empty plastic boxes with lids?" The evil eye continued as I payed and left.

Yes, I fully understand the lady didn't make the rule. But I don't feel bad about voicing the stupidity of it one bit.

[Ickisrulz]

Yes, I fully understand the lady didn't make the rule. But I don't feel bad about voicing the stupidity of it one bit.

I feel the same way. One time I got stopped leaving WalMart so they could check my receipt for the vacuum cleaner in my cart. I'm a middle aged guy with a cart full of plastic bags and a $40 vacuum leaving the check out area...and they want to check the receipt for the vacuum? I told the lady what I thought of their policy. Target the kids carrying a TV out the door...don't harrass a customer who obviously paid. I love it when stores tell you, "it's our policy" like it's out of their hands or something. There's no common sense or umpowerment of the "associates."

[bowfin]

My son was accused of being a straw buyer for an airsoft pistol by a clerk at Wal-Mart. He called her on it and asked to see the store manager. He had it out with the manager who threw up his arms and said, "Sell him the gun."

Sometimes you have to demand what you deserve. It doesn't have to be the guy in the White House or Congress who wants to take away your rights, sometimes it can be someone like the Wal-Mart clerk.

Wal-Mart is on its way down, by the way. It is now the most expensive place to buy groceries in a town of 20,000 here in Nebraska. So why go there? For the ambiance?

[starmac]

Look at the new Il law, it already has cashiers getting threatened. It has nothing to do with guns or ammo, but now you have to have id and sign a log to buy drain cleaner or a lot of other household chemicals. lol
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...drain-cleaner/

[exile]

Carded for an airsoft gun or masking tape? You have got to be kidding.

Since I recently purchased a Savage MK II BV, I have been going to every store in the vicinity looking for different types of .22 ammo to test. I have had bad experiences at Walmart in the past (wanting I.D. to purchase .22 ammo) but the last several days I have had good experiences. Friendly clerks, no B.S..

Walmart seems to be totally out of bulk ammo. The local gunshop I usually go to carries no bulk .22 at all. The pawn shop I went to had no .22 rimfire at all. The lady at Walmart said that they had no Remington, Winchester or Federal bulk ammo because the factory was completely out.

I have been telling myself that I would not worry so much about bulk ammo, but by my calculations if I buy in bulk I can shoot for two cents a round, with individually boxed ammo the cost goes up to five cents a round.

I am thinking about trying to shoot some prairie dogs this spring, and would like to buy some Winchester Power Points for that, but have not seen any in several years.

All the gun laws and hand-wringing have done nothing but encourage crime. My sister used to be a missionary in Taiwan and my brother-in-law had no interest in guns before he went overseas. Now he has a concealed carry permit, wants to participate in Appleseed events, and is interested in building his own AR. He said that if people in Taiwan got mad at you, they would just burn your house down.

The best thing I have found for carrying .22 ammo are the blue boxes that Midway packages their bulk jacketed bullets in. For some reason the Speer boxes won't stay closed. I have also used discarded pill bottles.

Sorry for the rambling.

exile

[Jamesconn]

Only trouble I have with buying ammo at a Walmart here in St Louis is finding someone with the derned key. lol

this too they take forever there isnt even anybody behind the counter EVER i have to find somebody and have them call somebody to the counter repeat this process 3 times and about 30 min later somebody shows and doesnt know anything about guns at all I have to physically point at the box of the federal bulk packs.

Also when I was buyin a couple boxes at a time to fill my 50cal ammo can of federal 22s i got the bull about only having one box and it had already been opened. the woman said somebody wanted to see it and when they saw it was bulk packed not in egg cartons he didnt want it so i bought it because that was the only box they had they only have maybe 2 boxes. I didnt think walmart would let people open the box.

[c3d4b2]

From what I have read about similar incidents, I think it has more to do with the local managers the corporate policy.

Read a post on another board about certain Indiana's WalMarts saying it was against the law to purchase ammo after midnight. (He was trying to buy ammo on his way home from working second shift). The guy called the state police. The State police said there were no stat restrictions, but he should check with the ATF. The ATF was contacted and reported there were no federal time restrictions, but he should check with the state.

It came out in the posts that most other Indian Walmarts sold ammo and this was an isolated incident that other had had issues with also. A previous Walmart employee recomended calling the Walmart head quarters and voicing their displeasure regarding the stores misinformation.

[MT Gianni]

I am glad I live where there are plenty of other choices. I used to go to Wal-Mart for a donut, soda and a bulk pack once a quarter but quit donuts a while back.