Here is a screwy one for ya:
I own a Hi-Point 9mm carbine rifle which obviously fires 9mm handgun ammo. Today, I went to the Bass Pro Shop in Auburn NY with my 17 yr old daughter and her boyfriend to buy some 9mm in bulk because tomarrow, my daughter, her boyfriend and I are planning on spending most of the day at my gun club's range practicing for an upcoming target shooting compitition in Connecticut which we entered. Bass Pro Shop is the only place in my area which sells ammo by the case (250 rounds) cheap. Well, between the 3 of us, we will be burning some serious ammo, so I figured on buying at least 3 cases of UMC, which is packed 250 to a case (5-50 round boxes). Anyway, we get the ammo plus some targets and other stuff and bring it to the cashier in the hunting/gun department. The cashier rings up the other stuff, but when he sees the ammo, he tells us that under NY state law, it is illegal to posess that much ammo at one time. I question him on this and he calls the department manager, who comes out of the back with a binder in his hands. He opens up the binder and sure as ****, he reads us the law which prohibits the posession of that many rounds of handgun ammo by someone at one time. When I asked him the statute number, all he replied was that it is the law and they couldn't sell us more than 1 case. I again asked him if it was their company policy or a real law and again, he said state law. He seemed to be getting slightly irritated by me challanging him, so I left it at that, along with our half rung up order on the counter. We then hit every Wal-Mart, K-mart, and other store on the 42 mile ride back home to buy the ammo we planned on using at the range. Does such a law exist? Is it legal? Is there a way around it?
I own a Hi-Point 9mm carbine rifle which obviously fires 9mm handgun ammo. Today, I went to the Bass Pro Shop in Auburn NY with my 17 yr old daughter and her boyfriend to buy some 9mm in bulk because tomarrow, my daughter, her boyfriend and I are planning on spending most of the day at my gun club's range practicing for an upcoming target shooting compitition in Connecticut which we entered. Bass Pro Shop is the only place in my area which sells ammo by the case (250 rounds) cheap. Well, between the 3 of us, we will be burning some serious ammo, so I figured on buying at least 3 cases of UMC, which is packed 250 to a case (5-50 round boxes). Anyway, we get the ammo plus some targets and other stuff and bring it to the cashier in the hunting/gun department. The cashier rings up the other stuff, but when he sees the ammo, he tells us that under NY state law, it is illegal to posess that much ammo at one time. I question him on this and he calls the department manager, who comes out of the back with a binder in his hands. He opens up the binder and sure as ****, he reads us the law which prohibits the posession of that many rounds of handgun ammo by someone at one time. When I asked him the statute number, all he replied was that it is the law and they couldn't sell us more than 1 case. I again asked him if it was their company policy or a real law and again, he said state law. He seemed to be getting slightly irritated by me challanging him, so I left it at that, along with our half rung up order on the counter. We then hit every Wal-Mart, K-mart, and other store on the 42 mile ride back home to buy the ammo we planned on using at the range. Does such a law exist? Is it legal? Is there a way around it?
