That's for sure. A buddy of mine bought a pistol at a local gun store and just paid for it and walked out. No BC or 4473. Basically they had too many cooks in the kitchen, as it were, and multiple people thought that the other people had done what they were supposed to, when in fact, nobody had. They had his phone number though and he got a very polite phone call a few days later asking him if he would pretty please come in and fill out the paperwork. He ended up with some free ammo out of the deal. I imagine they were rather nervous there for a bit.Considering that clerks at large stores may make mistakes that get the company in trouble it could just be a QA measure to prevent errors in a regulated transaction.