Finally able to buy my own handgun ammo this weekend

[TheLastBoyScout]

...I've only been in the military for a year...

...been shooting ipsc for 2 years...

...Owned my 9mill for 3 years...

...and had an AR for 6 years.


But its good to know that the government is finally convinced that I'm a responsible enough adult to buy pistol ammo.

 

[Gustav]

I always wondered about that an 18 year old can be responsible for driving and manning an M1 Abrams tank or be able to vote or marry or buy a rifle or shotgun but not a pistol or its ammunition or a drink to toast buddies and friends getting married or buried.
Go figure?

 

[The Wiry Irishman]

That's the one good thing about Wal-Mart. None of the people working there know anything about guns or ammo.

"Could I have that box of .25 auto?"
"Is it for a pistol?"
"Nope."

I've always wanted to see what would happen if I answered that question with "No, its for a sub machine gun."

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

they computerized that lately...

i.e. when I was getting 9mil the computer scanned 9mil and went directly to the customer DOB and wouldn't approve it unless the buyer was 21. Even if it was gonna go into a carbine (I tried to explain the concept of "carbine" to the cashier...but he barely had the command of English to find the ammo I wanted in the first place).

I've heard lately they won't sell .22LR if you're under 21, because it COULD be used in a pistol.

 

[Gord]

Can anyone who works at Walmart clarify this process for the benefit of the masses?

I've always assumed that it's just a simple Y/N entry on whatever form gets pulled up on the computer when one tries to buy handgun ammo, and so by extension I've always assumed that the clerks are real wads for not just punching in "N" and letting me go on my merry way.

It's not like they scan your ID or anything.

Typical gubmint logic... box of .38s is too dangerous for these young hands, while I'm free to hoard massive stockpiles of 7.62x54R with which to knock people within a couple hundred meters off from the rooftops if I ever do indeed decide to go batshiz loco.

Can't run .38s out of a levergun or .308 out of an Encore either (at least from an FFL...)

've heard lately they won't sell .22LR if you're under 21, because it COULD be used in a pistol.

Correctamundo. All depends on whichever waste-of-air happens to be on Sporting Goods duty that day. I've discovered that I have a strange disorder wherein wasting fifteen minutes of drive time and a couple gallons of gas to be turned down for something I've done dozens of times before will cause me to loudly vocalize in a manner that sounds extraordinarily like a long string of English curse words.

I'm surprised that the Federal ammo laws haven't been contested yet. As 18 is the accepted age for legal acquirement of long guns and ammunition for such, it's tacit that that is the age at which we are guaranteed a right to self-defense. The prohibition of CCW issuance and handgun ammo sales to <21-year-olds certainly counts as a significant hindrance to the exercising of that right...

 

[BlackBearME]

See, that's funny, because exactly the opposite happened here. I sold my brother my 9mm Taurus, but he's only 19 (perfectly legal here in ME) to fund buying my Saiga. He told me later that he went to buy the ammo, and as soon as it was rung in, they asked if it was for a pistol or rifle. He just said "rifle" - for which you only need to be 18 - and they hit the appropriate button, and he was on his way.

 

[TimboKhan]

When I was 19, and in the USMC, I thought it a grave injustice that I wasn't legally able to buy myself a beer. However, as Marines we are expected to adapt and overcome, and so we paid homeless guys in Oceanside to buy us our booze. I assume that it worked out OK, but 19 to 20 is a little hazy for me...