Wal - Mart, "Is that for a handgun?"

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.... it defeats the purpose of concealed carry, when you show your concealed carry card to cashiers and other people in line. Just my opinion.
 
... why hand the WM cashier your CCW? I only pull mine out when purchasing a firearm, to expedite sales. I prefer not to announce to all and sundry that I might be carrying.

I'm assuming you still drive, and therefore would have been required to have a DL with you.
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I sometimes do it just to see their reaction. Like this morning, I work nights and get off at 7am, the local convenience store starts selling beer at 7am. I stopped in on my way home from work and bought a 6 pack, when she asked to see my ID, I handed her my CHL. The look on her face seeing a guy buying beer at 7:15 in the morning and using a CHL as his ID was great. :D
 
In kommiefornia you must be 21 to buy a handgun or handgun ammo. Not sure how a 18-20 yo could get ammo for there lever action in pistol calibers though.
 
I believe most opposition to our CCW's comes from fear .
I don't hide my status so people know a CCW holder isn't the crazy running around threatening them. He's a normal guy that lives in the neighborhood.

I conceal my gun not that I have one.
I love the reaction of some anti's "you have a permit!!!"

Sometimes. not often, but sometimes, they start asking intelligent questions.

AFS
 
There are a lot of variations between state laws it seems. I remember when I bought my first handgun at age 21 I lived in NM. It was a 22 and every time I bought any ammo, the clerk had to write my name down on a list, along with how much I bought. I don't remember if I had to show ID. I asked him one time what he did with the list. He laughed and said he kept it until the page was full, then he started another page and stashed that page in a file. In all his years doing it, nobody had ever come along to ask for the pages full of names. He couldn't even remember what agency it was that required him to do it. And it was only for ammo that could be used in a typical handgun.

Just too strange. In my current state, they sell ammo in the grocery stores right along side the light bulbs with no distinction about it.
 
They do actually have to enter a date of birth into the computer system when you try to buy certain things. Handgun ammo being one of them.

They cannot accept a ccw as a valid form of ID. If The sales person accepts anything other than a drivers license, state issued id card, or military id, they can be fired. The policy might be enforced different from store to store, but that is how it is at this Walmart here where I live.
 
They should ask to see your ID first, and if you are over 21 they shouldn't ask what the ammo is for. (saves a step for them, doesn't pizz off the customer as much, everybody wins.) But that's probably not the order that the computer screen tells them to do it.
 
It's definitely a computer thing. I bought a couple of boxes of .17HMR yesterday at WW. I had some other stuff to get and was running low on checks so I asked the guy at the ammo counter if I could take it up front. No problem. Get to the front and when the gal scans it she kind of does a little double take and asks if it's for a handgun. Kind of funny, I guess a couple years ago I could have said, "No." Now I see they make a revolver in .17 HMR. I guess they actually mean, "What are you going to use it for?" Haha, whatever takes the least anount of hassle.

Ya gotta figure that the antis would love to shut down WW from selling anything to with guns. I don't know, but I guess WW operates under one gigantic FFL. Woe be unto the manager who allows a screwup in paperwork to jeoparize that FFL. I'm pretty sure they try to make it as idiot proof as possible for the talent they have available. But we all know how resourceful idiots are.
 
As stated by others, (and I THINK this may vary by state, but it's true in SC), you have to be 18 to purchase ammo for a long gun and 21 to purchase ammo for a handgun. So for bullets that are often used in either (usually .22LR) the computer prompts them to ask you which. It's just to cover their butts from a legal standpoint. If you SAY it's for a rifle but you then use it in a handgun to commit a crime or accidentally shoot someone, then the blame falls back to you since you lied to the cashier. Beyond that they don't care - so long as they're not liable.

Generally though the computer only prompts for the stuff that is commonly used in either (.22LR, .357 Mag, .44 Mag, etc), even though technically just about anything can be used in either. Even though there are .308 Win handguns, and .45ACP rifles, the computer will generally assume rifle and handgun, respectively, so if you REALLY ARE an 18 year old wanting to buy .45 ACP for a carbine, you just may be SOL at Wally World ;).
 
I went to walmart, picked up some .22lr and took it to the cashier. She asked me for ID, since I am 20 I was like no problem. She told me I had to be 21 to buy it and refused still after I said it would be used in a rifle. This was just after my buddy bought some shotgun shells. I will never go to walmart again for ammo, just sticking to my local gun store.
 
Did you smile and wave too? They got you on camera as well.

I had a priceless situation a few years ago at the WalMart near the NRA range. Got three WWB 9mm (yes...remember?) and the Indian/Pakistani guy refused to check me out at the SG counter. He physically escorted me to the nearest checkout at the front, watched me like a HAWK and made sure I left the building.

If I wasn't in such a hurry to get lead downrange, I would have had a word with the store manager.
 
It goes right along with knives.

Our wal-mart has their pocket knives in a case, just like most stores do. If someone looks under 18, they'll ask for ID. No ID, no sale.

Yet a teen-ager can go over in the camping gear, get a machete, and go pay for it without any trouble.

Or, can go buy a set of kitchen knives and never be questioned.

Seems pretty silly, to me.

Daryl
 
ID or No ID; that is the question

I have been cruising several walmarts between where I live and work and I have found ammo three times in over 3 months. Makes it hard to get range time in what with the 6 boxes or less policy. I have been asked if I was over 21 once ( I'm 38)and no one has ever asked if it was for a hand gun. No one has even looked at my ID to verify my age.
While am glad they still sell ammo at reasonable prices, I wish they would/could stock more. When I showed up this morning at 7:30 am, the clerk informed me that the shipment that came in overnight had already sold out!!
 
AFS... I tried to use my CCL to buy sudafed (left my wallet home, I was sick...). No good. I had to drive home for my DL.

It is very frustrating living in a world where we have to be sooo careful for the morons
 
AFS... I tried to use my CCL to buy sudafed (left my wallet home, I was sick...). No good. I had to drive home for my DL.

It is very frustrating living in a world where we have to be sooo careful for the morons
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This is true. The problem is actually self-correcting, given a bit of time, but the government is determined to keep stupidity alive and well.

It must be for their vote?

Daryl
 
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