Handgun Ignoramuses at Wal-Mart

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general...

"What about reloading stuff?"

I have not reloaded since I have been here so I can't really say. But it is NOT good here. However, those of us who cannot or will not leave are trying our best to reverse this trend. Or, at least, stop it.
 
I bought 6 boxes of 9mm one time and had to be rung up in the electronics section.

Can you imagine the looks I got from people in CA!!!!
 
P95CARRY, you even need....

an FID card (at minimum) to purchase BB guns or even the BB's in Mass. !!!

You don't know how good you've got it.
 
It's sad that the birthplace of American freedom and independence has become the birthplace of American oppression.
I wonder what the founding fathers would think or say if they could see what we've allowed to happen?:(
 
what I like to do...

...is to buy my 9mm ammo @ walmart along with
some other items and take them to the front
counter to see what reaction I can get from the
cashiers. Note: only do this when you have some
time to kill. Some good 'companion products'
to get with say 500 rounds of 9mm are:

1. diapers/milk
2. childrens toys
3. cat food
4. flowers


good, clean fun.
 
fish2xs...

"...is to buy my 9mm ammo @ walmart along with some other items and take them to the front counter to see what reaction I can get from the cashiers."

Where in Mass do you live? The Wal-Mart in Hadley, MA makes you pay at the Sporting Goods department. You then end up walking through the entire store with your purchase in hand. It never bothers me but I often wonder about what others think. But since most of them are in Condition White, I don't think they even see....
 
general said...
I guess you aren't kidding...What in the world... I gotta get out more. But not to Mass. - real bummer. I mean sheesh... ammo?!?!?! What about reloading stuff?
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To my knowledge, you have to have a license to purchase the brass, bulletts, and/or powder.
 
FPrice,

I live in North Andover. So I make trips over the
NH line to the Walmart in Salem. Most of the
people in the hunting/fishing department there
are great.

For work, I sell big computers & related infrastructure
to retailers - so I have forgotten more Walmart (corporate)
horror stories then most people have heard. But
despite this, outside of the occasional 'dumb kid',
most of the people that work the Walmart in Salem
are just fine.

Now just over the state line in Methuen, MA, the
people that work that Walmart are a different story.
I usually drive past that Walmart to go to the one
in Salem, NH - 5 miles further.

-Phil
 
The most trouble I've had buying ammo at walmart is the standard .22lr question. and when buying pistol ammo they look at me "you 21?" .. "yes sir" .. "ok, that'll be $??"

gotta love texas
 
I believe that, more precisely, the reason they ask "what are you going to use this for?" or "rifle or handgun?", is so that when they push the corresponding key on the register, it prompts for the correct minimum age...21 for handgun, 18 for rifle. If you're 19, say "for handgun", and they swipe your ID (do it in Iowa now), it won't let them sell it IIRC.

I wonder...if they refused to sell 9mm to a 18-20yr old, would they mind if you brought in your carbine to prove that it's "for a rifle"? :D
 
I've been buying almost all my ammo at gart sports, the people they put on the counter generally know their stuff and a few of them know their guns and ammo far better than I do.
 
I should start saying "pistol caliber rifle" or "rifle caliber pistol" :neener:

I don't go to Wal-Mart often, lucky me, too many people during the times there is someone around to actually sell ammo, when they actually have some 9mm to sell. And I keep on hearing about a Win .40 S&W value pack which I have never laid eyes on there...
 
And I keep on hearing about a Win .40 S&W value pack which I have never laid eyes on there...
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Me neither! I've yet to see this 100 round box of Win WB at WalMart.

brad cook
 
The Walmart in my area only sells long guns -- I wouldn't buy from them for two reasons:

1. They don't know what the Hell they're talking about.
2. Nobody is ever in the sporting goods and I don't feel like waiting twenty, thirty or forty minutes for someone to be paged.

Other than that, I do buy the ammo since it's usually in stock -- thanks to my letter where I bitched about it always being out and the shabby condition of their sporting goods section. I still hate waiting forever for a clerk. You'd think they'd put someone in that section and tell them to stay there...:scrutiny:
 
I like 9mm WWB, and at $10.96 and no sales tax, it's cheaper than mail order. Plus, if I only want/need 500 rounds or so, it's hard to eat the shipping charges for that little ammo. I make it a habit to buy one box whenever I go to WallyWorld. The $11 gets lost in the overall purchase, and the ammo supply steadily grows, plus it lets them know people buy it.

Standard drill is the one already mentioned: "No, left one. No, up one. One more left. There." Only complaint is they never stock enough behind the counter. I can't count how many times I have bought the only box back there.

I gotta try the "submachine gun" line.

Scott
 
besides 9mm, i used to buy the value packs (100 shells) of 12 guage shotshells. in maryland, you have to pay at the sporting goods counter. the first time, i bought 4 value packs along with a couple 9mm boxes. lugging that around the store always brings a couple of stares from the busy moms and even made the high school kids loitering around the front real quiet real fast! :D

on second thought, every time i've been to walmart in the afternoon/evening, there's always teenagers hanging around the front. is it now the cool thing to hang out at walmart??
 
Honestly I never had any prob buying ammo at Wally World. The only time I even had to give directions is when a kid handed me WWB JHP instead on FMJ. The kid just said "Oh sorry" and went scrambling to find the right stuff. After about 30 sec. of not being able to find it I pointed it out to him. Most of the time I just say "I need a box of 9MM plinkers"or".40 cal plinkers" and the clerk most always know what I want. I guess that's just an advantage of living in the Bible Belt.
 
A lot depends on the manager. Near me the closest WalMart has a crappy ammo section. If I drive 5 miles down the highway, that one has a manager who cares about hunting and they have a great display.

Contact Walmart central and tell them the manager is losing business for them.

The think I hate most is the lack of checkouts. There are a bizillion folks and only two stoned teenagers, a guy for Berzerkatina, and a old fart for checkouts a mile long.
 
DigMe: I've started to see it (WWB 100pk) at other retailers in my area lately...a dollar or two more, but they have it.

ScottS: Do they not charge sales tax on ammo in your area??

sw442642: Same thing at my wal-mart's...and they have 30 registers they COULD have open. :rolleyes:
 
They don't charge sales tax on anything in my area
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They always get you somehow...in Texas we have sales tax but no state income tax...some places have no sales tax but do have state income tax. I think there's one state that has neither but I'm sure they get it somewhere else. Personally I'd rather have no state income and pay sales.

brad cook
 
That'd be us!

No sales or income tax!

'course, the downside is that out property taxes are about $100/year more than MA...

I can live with that!
 
>>Damn Straight! And that's $100 I'd gladly pay (and do) to not live in MA.
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>>Scott

...but, but wait! MA has clean needles for our addicts, and a state legislature that breaks the law by not bringing up politically incorrect legislation for vote, and MA has Teddy 'Fatboy' Kennedy who has sucked $14B from the nation to finance his democratic union toadies to build a traffic tunnel under Boston that doesn't even add lanes of trafic over what was already there.


Of course, lets not even mention our splendid pro-2nd Amendment atmosphere...

My house/prop value has gone up ~40% since 1999, and I can't imagine why...
 
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