KMart ammo sale

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Chipperman

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FYI-- Dunno if this is everywhere in the US, but in Eastern PA KMart has all of its centerfire ammo on sale.

I picked up several boxes of Remington .30-30 Win for $7.99 each. They were regularly priced at $9.99 each. They didn't have much else that was at a good price, but the .30-30 more than made it worth the trip.
 
Hi, Chipperman,

I find it hard to be against anyone saving money, but I hope in the future you can see fit to patronize a local gun dealer rather than the anti-gun K-Mart (home of "Rosie", the "send gun owners to jail" gal).

Remember that the gun shop is there when you need help and stuff that mass volume stores like K-Mart don't see fit to stock. Plus you can get better advice than at K-Mart, where the clerk who is a gun "expert" today was a CD player "expert" yesterday, and will be an auto parts "expert" tomorrow.

Jim
 
Yeah, but Jim, didn't K-Mart give Rosie her walking papers a while ago, when they got all those angry calls and letters about her? That at least says they're somewhat responsive to gun owners' concerns...
 
Heres another way to look at it: if Kmart stops making loot on selling gun gear, they will stop selling it. On the other hand, if they continue to make money on it, they will continue to sell it.

I'm not saying I like Kmart or their (former?) spokeshippo(crit), but this is just another way to look at it.

Mike

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
K-Mart let her walk away like she was some kind of anti-gun martyr. Instead of firing her on the spot, they let her walk away saying, Look at me and how much money I gave up.

Up K-Mart's rear.

(I hope that's not too offensive to anybody. However, it's honestly the way I feel.)

Will

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Mendacity is the system we live in.
 
Sorry, I agree with Coronach. Stop buying at K-Mart and they will stop selling. They had the absolute best .22 CCI Mini-mag prices in Northern Virginia a few years ago. Beside they got rid of her due to pressure from sportsman. Sports Authority is doing away with guns.

I try to patronize the stocking shops for my firearms, but when a box of UMC .308 is $17 at the shop and K-Mart has it for $7.98, they get my business.

I used to live in Eastern PA. I still have Federal Premium .30-06 165gr. BT I paid $9.95 for at K-Mart. Eastern PA is a ammo buyers paradise in the fall before deer season if you are looking for a hunting round in a popular caliber. I just saw Federal (not the American Eagle label)hunting rounds (softpoint, not FMJ) .270, .308, .30-06, .243 all below $10 in PA.

[This message has been edited by 700PSS Shooter (edited October 08, 2000).]
 
About 10 years ago I needed some 7MM Rem. Mag. ammo. (I buy the ammo and shoot it to get the brass to reload). I went to K-mart and it was just before hunting season and they had ammo on sale. It was all stacked by the cash registers, 30-06, 270, 30-30, but no 7MM. Well I bought 3 boxes of 06 paid for them and went put em in my truck, came back in and went to the sproting goods counter. I asked if they had 7MM Mag. He said "yes" and hauled 3 boxes out from under the counter. I asked the price and he said $14.99 a box, well I went to buy them and he then wanted my ID and was going to register it! I told him that (at that time) rifle ammo was not a registerable item. He said yes it is, so I then asked about the ammo up front by the counter and why was I not asked for an ID for that, he said that dosent count! I then proceeded to tell him what to do with the 3 boxes of 7MM and started out of the store, when he ran out from behind the counter and grabbed my arm and demanded ID! I pulled away from him and told him if he liked his face in the same condition that it was in to leave me alone. Well he then said he was gonna call security.. I told him he could call God if he had His number, but if he put a hand on me or if security did, my lawyer would sue their estates, cause they would be dead, and the estate would have to answer the suits. I then walked out, went to my local guns store got the 3 boxes for $15.50 a box (51 cents higher), then told them what had happened. the gun store clerk almost died laughing. I have NEVER to this day been back to K-mart and do not plan to either. I did send a letter to their corporate HQ, but never received a reply.

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Carlyle Hebert

[This message has been edited by Southla1 (edited October 08, 2000).]
 
Anybody that can justify supporting K-Mart, should feel very comfortable justifying the use of prostitutes. There is NO difference.

K-Mart is a whore and proved it in their actions when they didn't fire her on the spot when she first started her totalitarian preaching.

I refuse to buy ANYTHING from K-Mart ever again. they need my money more than I need the cheap crap they peddle in their stores.

Any of you guys that continue to patronize
that abhorrent company, in the name of saving a buck or two, are prostituting your beliefs.

If you will do that with one of our most fundamental freedoms, what will you do with the others?
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Keith Buckner:
Anybody that can justify supporting K-Mart, should feel very comfortable justifying the use of prostitutes..... [/quote]

Not so fast My Friend. It is one thing to bash Rosie, but why vent on prostitutes? Give them some credit for usually being more honest and serving a usefull purpose.

Tom
 
Sheesh!!
I had no idea this post would generate this kind of controversy. I also had no idea about KMart's supposed anti-gun policy.

As far as patorizing a local dealer, I do prefer that. But when the local dealer has ammo for $12.99 a box and KMart has it for $7.99 a box it comes down to simple economics. I still have a lot of school debt, and need to save money wherever possible. Especially when it comes to "hobbies" like shooting, as opposed to eating. I would never buy a gun at KMart, and do not normally buy ammo there.

I was trying to give people a heads-up about saving a few bucks on cartridges. This is not going to put any gun dealers out of business.
In the future I will keep these things to myself.
 
Chipperman....That would be a good idea. I would be the last to say you can't buy where you want, but when anyone buys from K-Mart, Wal-Mart or any other "big box" store, they should fully realize that they are helping the corporate monopolization of society.
Every dollar spent at those places displaces an American worker's job and puts a small business out of business.
It may not seem like such a big deal, but it is to the guy who saved and invested and turned his knowledge into a well stocked local retail store only to see it killed by mass merchandisers who will use loss leaders to destroy him.
I would like to have seen the British open department stores here in 1777 to see if they would have as easily taken us back.
 
Lavan's point is right on target. This is about more than guns and ammunition, it is about keeping the "personal" in business and that is a big part of the America, with its values of freedom and independence, that we all cherish. I used to write about retail years ago as a journalist and came to appreciate the small retailer. Consolidation of power, political and economic, is the enemy. Massthink is a more dangerous foe than armies because all action starts with ideas.

Sorry to get preachy, but to me this has become an important issue.
 
Tom,
You're right, I guess I just went crazy (again) and lost all rational thought. I did NOT mean to slam any Hooker's by associating them with K-Mart.

You might find this interesting.
My dad always told me, "Son, remember... you do not pay a prostitute for sex... You pay her to leave."

Anyway, I always thought that was kinda sentimental.
 
Not that I want to jump into this briar patch uninvited, but I have a slight problem with this concept:

"Every dollar spent at those places displaces an American worker's job and puts a small business out of business."

Uh, and those guys working at "Mart" type stores to feed their families and pay their mortgages...what about them? Last time I looked, they were "American workers," too, just trying to keep a job and feed their families. Screw them, tho, right? They should have chosen to get a job instead with some "small businessman." And, I guess while we're at it, how much do I have to pay for a 7.99 box of ammo to be patriotic and supportive of the 2d Ammendment? 12.99? 19.99? How much before it's not "supporting the small businessman" and just price gouging? Any chance *I* get to decide that, or is it always open to discussion.

Having said that, I buy 99% of my ammo mail-order. Is this anti-American, too?

This came across a shade more vitrolic than I had planned, but I always love it when someone else decides where you should work, and where and how you should spend your money, and then couches it somehow in terms of "freedom." Different definition than mine, I guess.

Scott


[This message has been edited by ScottS (edited October 09, 2000).]
 
I can understand if one has school debt the difference between $7.99 a box and $12.99. However do yourselves and possibly your local gun dealer a favor and at LEAST check his prices compared to the big stores. If it is not around this time of year when K-mart, Wal-Mart, etc. are running their pre-hunting season sales on ammo and accessories you may be suprised to find out how close in price the gun shop is to the regular prices in the big stores, besides that try to find something besides 30-06, 270, 30-30 or 243 in the big stores. Go in there and ask for 7MM Mauser, or something like that and see the stupid look that appears on the clerks face. I made the mistake one time of asking for 22-250 and they tried to sell me .22LR! When I tried to explain I was told "well it is a 22 why wont it work?"

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Carlyle Hebert
 
Here is my advice:

Get a Prostitute to go in and buy the ammo at KMart, then "patronize" HER for it! That way everyone is happy.

Prostitutes are COOL.

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Gun Toter

Trust me, I'm with the government
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Southla1:
... when he ran out from behind the counter and grabbed my arm and demanded ID!
... but if he put a hand on me or if security did, my lawyer would sue their estates, cause they would be dead ... I did send a letter to their corporate HQ, but never received a reply.[/quote]

I should like to point out to anyone reading that what Southla1 described here meets the criteria for criminal assault. Since you had not committed a crime, the clerk was completely out of line in grabbing you, and in so doing he committed a crime. Forget about suing the bastard, swear out a criminal complaint against him and let Johnny Law get involved.

Threatening suit and not following up doesn't change corporate policy. Getting an employee arrested for assault then following it up with a civil law suit against his employer would change things.

Heck, if you are not the litigious type, just file the criminal charge. You really should not threaten the person with disproportionate force. Just use the laws on the book to compel civilized behavior from barbarians like the boob in that K-Mart store.

(FWIW- I get most of my ammo from my local gunshop. He offers what he calls "sharp pencil prices", and he makes it worth my while to buy from him. Not to mention the fact that he has never assaulted me ;) Some times I buy bulk from ammoman.com because he treated me fairly when I visited his tables at Marlyand gun shows.)


[This message has been edited by Dizzipator (edited October 09, 2000).]
 
Dizzipator, I know you are right about the assult charges but my friend believe me when I got in his face and told him what I had to say, to see the look of pure terror there was worth 2 wait no 3 or maybe 4 cases of LC-69 M-172 Match Grade! :D

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Carlyle Hebert
 
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