Renegade
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Short story - kimbercarrier, myself, and another OCDO member met up for an evening shoot at Lafayette Gun Club. Afterwards I head home, grab my wife, and head out to purchase a few hundred rounds of four-five.
We show up at the Yorktown Wal-Mart and guess who is walking away from the ammo counter - kimbercarrier. Guess who has just paid for all the .45 ammo the store had left...you are right kimbercarrier. No problem, we will run over to the Newport News store since they have about 1k rounds in stock.
We arrive at 10pm on the nose and the clerk says he is sorry as he points to a sign that clearly states "no ammunition sold after 10:00 pm." Huh? He was a nice guy but said there was some Federal law or something like that. Like alarms would go off and the SWAT team would be called in if he tried to sell.
First manager (female) arrives and backs the Federal law story. Interesting as I have cleaned out all 9mm and .45 ammo at Yorktown...at 1am just prior to a late night shoot. Next manager comes out, nice guy, listened to our side and replied with a slightly different story...this was now "state code" that prevented him selling ammo to us.
My wife simply asked him to produce a copy of the state or federal code that detailed this restriction - boy, did I raise her well. We knew there was nothing of the sort. Ten minutes later the manager called back and cleared us for the sale. Apparently they have a store policy that prohibits the sale of firearms after 10pm. No problem, I was not there to purchase a firearm, and it was only store policy anyway.
All in all, kimbercarrier drives fast when it comes to racing me to the store to horde the last bit of ammo, and I was pleased that Wal-Mart management took the extra few minutes, researched their policy, and pleased their customer.
Short story - kimbercarrier, myself, and another OCDO member met up for an evening shoot at Lafayette Gun Club. Afterwards I head home, grab my wife, and head out to purchase a few hundred rounds of four-five.
We show up at the Yorktown Wal-Mart and guess who is walking away from the ammo counter - kimbercarrier. Guess who has just paid for all the .45 ammo the store had left...you are right kimbercarrier. No problem, we will run over to the Newport News store since they have about 1k rounds in stock.
We arrive at 10pm on the nose and the clerk says he is sorry as he points to a sign that clearly states "no ammunition sold after 10:00 pm." Huh? He was a nice guy but said there was some Federal law or something like that. Like alarms would go off and the SWAT team would be called in if he tried to sell.
First manager (female) arrives and backs the Federal law story. Interesting as I have cleaned out all 9mm and .45 ammo at Yorktown...at 1am just prior to a late night shoot. Next manager comes out, nice guy, listened to our side and replied with a slightly different story...this was now "state code" that prevented him selling ammo to us.
My wife simply asked him to produce a copy of the state or federal code that detailed this restriction - boy, did I raise her well. We knew there was nothing of the sort. Ten minutes later the manager called back and cleared us for the sale. Apparently they have a store policy that prohibits the sale of firearms after 10pm. No problem, I was not there to purchase a firearm, and it was only store policy anyway.
All in all, kimbercarrier drives fast when it comes to racing me to the store to horde the last bit of ammo, and I was pleased that Wal-Mart management took the extra few minutes, researched their policy, and pleased their customer.
