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I was reading an earlier post about one of the sporting good stores and their ridiculous policies on trigger guards...I started thinking about a Wal-mart policy that bewildered me a couple of months ago.
I had an early saturday morning shoot planned with several friends that were visiting from out of town...I spent the entire day getting ready for them and made a poor time judgement on when to purchase ammunition. To get past all of the boring details of my story.......Wal-mart would not sell ammunition to me after 10pm!!! There was an employee working in the department with keys to the cabinet which houses ammunition. I asked to speak to the manager and he seemed to be almost as intelligent as the floor tile, solving nothing, but managing to tell me that the cash register would not ring them up after ten at night. I called the corporate office and got passed around from office to office until I finally got an answer. "It is up to the local store manager, they are allowed to make the decision on a store by store basis". :x I tried to speak with everyone I could, which meant one of the Waltons if I could have gotten one of them on the phone!!! It did absolutely no good...but I will no longer purchase ammunition from them, even if the price is a little cheaper.

Hmm... that explains a few things.
I've found that almost every Walmart has different procedures.
I have bought ammo late in Walmarts but usually it's rifle ammo.
The last time I grabbed some extra .38 spec , it was late and the Sporting Goods/ Gun Lady told to pay for it at the front registers.
The stores in small communities are a little friendlier to the gun-owning public. Georgetown , for instance, has about the best selection of ammo I've seen in any WallyWorld. Better than most smaller gun shops.

BTW, I found out one time that their registers won't ring up sinus medicine and acetone together. It was weird. No one in the store could figure it out. Why ? Because we aren't meth cookers. It seems that Pseudoephedrine (decongestant) and acetone are two of the principal ingredients in making Methamphetimines ! I didn't find that out until about a year later. I thought they were keeping me from buying acetone and lacquer thinner together so I wouldn't make a bomb!

I have a generally favorable opinion of Walmart with the exception of them not keep a lot of their rifle ammo out year round.

Jay

Just so I will know if the need arises, where can you buy ammo after 10pm?

OE

jbirds1210 wrote:I tried to speak with everyone I could, which meant one of the Waltons if I could have gotten one of them on the phone!!!

i might be able to arrange that.

my mom went to wal-mart with a friend of hers, who happens to be a 'walton', and it was not a pretty sight when they did not get good service. talk about heads rolling. 5th richest person in the world still shopping at wal-mart.

Please stress to your friend that it would be wonderful if law abiding citizens could walk into Wal-mart and buy ammunition after 10PM. Anyone can walk in and buy beer until midnight!! I believe the overall damage and liability is much more with alcohol. Thanks.

jbirds1210 wrote:Please stress to your friend that it would be wonderful if law abiding citizens could walk into Wal-mart and buy ammunition after 10PM. Anyone can walk in and buy beer until midnight!! I believe the overall damage and liability is much more with alcohol. Thanks.

As long as we're on Wal-Mart, has anyone else run into their policy of requiring a NICS check even with a CHL? The explanation I was given by the dept. manager was that they'd had instances of phony CHLs being used, but when I asked for the specifics, they couldn't tell me. The manager-type said it was when the CHL law was first passed.......last year sometime. When I informed her that was 10 years ago, she got even more evasive.

I gave her a TSRA card and told her I'd inform my CHL students in the future.

wrt45 wrote: As long as we're on Wal-Mart, has anyone else run into their policy of requiring a NICS check even with a CHL? The explanation I was given by the dept. manager was that they'd had instances of phony CHLs being used, but when I asked for the specifics, they couldn't tell me. The manager-type said it was when the CHL law was first passed.......last year sometime. When I informed her that was 10 years ago, she got even more evasive.

I gave her a TSRA card and told her I'd inform my CHL students in the future.

i special ordered two pink crickett rifles and picked them up from wal-mart last night. i got a CHL just to avoid the checks and i didn't have any problems at all. when i showed her the CHL, the two women at the counter said they were glad i showed that to them to avoid all the extra time. i didn't get out of the store until almost every employee within sight saw my two rifles. seemed like they were all gun nuts. the manager politely explained that, due to policy, she would have to carry them to the front door for me.

wal-mart isn't a gun store. i do expect to be treated a little more differently there than if i made a purchase at the local shooting center.