No cash sales of ammo at Walmart?

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I just bought the last two boxes of handgun ammo left at a local Walmart
(Orlando, FL.)...and these were the ONLY boxes of common caliber (.38, 9mm, .45 etc.) that they've had in nearly two weeks. If you shoot a .357 Sig
then you'd be happy, 'cause THAT always seems to be available.

But here's the point of this post: As the clerk was ringing up the sale, she said "hmm, I've never seen that before". Her computerized register said "No cash sales of handgun ammunition...credit card only".
Having bought hundreds of rounds at various Walmarts over the past few months, I assured her that no one else had ever heard of that either.
She went on the say that "it must be a new company policy, because it's in the database".

Anyone else had a similar experience? It's enough to make you start believing in 'conspiracies'! :)

Mike
 
Corporate rush to comply with anticipated increase in government repression?

Opportunity to read the manager the fine print on a bill "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."
 
They're using your CC to track your purchases....Big Brother is watching.
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+1. I heard from a friend that works for a guy who's brother owns a gun store that each batch of ammo is now tied to the UPC barcode. It seems that there is now an invisible barcode encoded in the UPC that allows for addtional tracking and tracing. By using a CC, Walmart now has all of your vital information which has been recorded and stored along with the ammo serial numbers that you just bought. At this point, so I've been told anyway, Walmart is the only company running this "test" program which is sponsored in part by the Brady Campaign.

He also said that the reason you can't find any .380 is that they are currently producing .380 brass with hidden laser engraved barcodes that will tie into the hidden UPC barcode. Once they produce enough encoded brass, they plan on flooding the market with cheap .380 to test the entire process.

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This note is legal tender for all debts public and private
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Legal tender can be refused where no debt exists. For example, a sales transaction at Wal-Mart is where no debt actually exists. The tendered money is an offer to buy, not an offer to settle debt.

Cash can be legally refused just like refusing to accept bills over a certain amount is legal.
 
Stick the conspiracy "big gubmint wachin yew!" back on the shelf, folks.

Someone (like the original poster) want to e-mail WalMart corporate and find out the REAL skinny before we work ourselves up into a panicky lather?

Wally World corporate has been pretty forthcoming in the past in explaining stuff like this.


As for the "super secret squirrel barcode in the barcode" that only registers for government agents who are tracking YOUR personal purchases for their nefarious schemes?

If your source of "knowledge" is "I heard from a friend that works for a guy who's brother owns a gun store..."?

That's natures way of saying "Bubba's making up stuff again," and "Don't listen to this assclown, he's an idiot."
 
+1 Wiskey

Government tracking via paper trail.....tracking who is buying what :eek: Just another standard type of 'invasion of privacy' but a sneaky backdoor 'big brother' move, this time :barf:
 
I've been lucky enough to pick up three of the Federal 200 rd. 50 gr. JHP .223 bulk packs lately for $78--one at a time. No mention of this so far.:p -7-
 
"I would assume that is IRS related before I would assume "Big Brother is watching us related"."

I wouldn't even assume that.

If it WERE an IRS move, it would be well publicised in the industry, it would be all 50 states, and it would be every vendor selling ammo.

I'm thinking that this is either something done by the store manager or by the regional manager.
 
Cash can be legally refused just like refusing to accept bills over a certain amount is legal.
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Actually, this is not true.

Cash cannot be refused in the United States.
Credit cards can be refused, debit cards can be refused, gold can be refused, but U.S. minted and U.S. printed money cannot be refused.


So how do folks refuse large bills, you ask?

Legally, one cannot refuse large bills.

However, one can openly declare that they are not able to provide change for large bills and so the buyer must make the choice of not giving a large bill, or agreeing to give a large bill and forfeit his remaining change.
 
Actually, this is not true.

Cash cannot be refused in the United States.
Credit cards can be refused, debit cards can be refused, gold can be refused, but U.S. minted and U.S. printed money cannot be refused.


So how do folks refuse large bills, you ask?

Legally, one cannot refuse large bills.

However, one can openly declare that they are not able to provide change for large bills and so the buyer must make the choice of not giving a large bill, or agreeing to give a large bill and forfeit his remaining change.
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Not so. US currency cannot be refused for paying a debt. thats where the phrase "legal tender for all debts public and private" comes from.

If there is no debt, legal tender is not an issue.
 
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