Odd Policy at Cabela's

It's fairly common practice. If you want to make it fun (as I do)... call it your "Walk of Fame" to the door. March in step with the gun greeter to the door chanting in your best munchkin voice (follow the yellow brick road) "Follow the Gun to the Door, Follow the Gun to the Door...follow, follow, follow, follow, Follow the gun to the door!!

They get a kick out of it and NO I have never had one taken from me yet and YES there have been strange looks and laughter and tears.

The medication is working folks...humor

Rok

The places that don't let you buy a gun and ammunition at the same time, however, do not get my business. They should have no say in what I can and can't buy at a given time.

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What? Stores have the right to refuse service to anyone at any time. They're not government entities, they are private corporations. If they can ask you to leave the store if you're not wearing a shirt, or shoes, then they have the right to sell you one thing, but not another.

That said, you can boycott them for this policy but let's not say they have no say in it. They have every say.

once upon a time a guy asked tolook at a gun in kmart, i think it was in towson md, he took the gun reached in his pocket for the ammo loaded at and robbed em. at that point the bottom feeders and ambulance chasers closed in and have been in a race to "reduce exposure" and we have an ongoing circus

As I recall, they escorted me to the exit of the building, but let me carry the gun.

I know what you mean! I bought a rifle at Wal-Mart and they made the MANAGER not the salesperson walk me out, and they would not sell me ammo until the gun was in my truck! lol

"You buy a gun (at least a handgun, they may not do it for rifles and shotgun purchases), you have to wait for a "gun greeter" to come to the gun counter. He/she carries the gun out the front door and gives you possession of it outside.

The unloaded gun I bought at the counter is more dangerous than the loaded Glock on my hip. Odd policy!"

Odd yes, but not really a store policy, per se. It's a system devised by company lawyers trying to give the store some defense against suits brought by whiners AND to "prevent" in store "violence". Those who make laws and lawyers and judges don't seem to live in the real world, they do their thinking in some sort of Lala-land where such "pre-emptive" measures are dreamed up.

Knowing where such ideas came from, that it's not local store policy nor does it have to make any sense to anyone but a liberal, I have come to expect such legal silliness without hasseling the store clerks.

They do it with long guns as well. I brought in a shotgun to trade and the person met me at the door to take it up to the "appraiser" (crook if you ask me). Once I decided not to get taken, the same guy carried it for me out the door. I guess it's a safety thing, they don't want someone fiddling with a new (or old) gun in the store and something stupid happen. I personally would not buy a firearm from Cabela's unless it was something from the gun library that got shipped in the East Hartford store. Their prices are little high compared to Hoffman's and Newington. More recently, I just get what I'm looking for shipped to a local FFL.

SCKimberFan :

If you bought it a(sic) Cabela's you probably paid too much.

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Whoa, there, SCKimberFan !! I've bought several weapons at Cabela's and I do my intense price research before hand. I wait 'til the guns are on sale and Cabela's has a bonus card for buying x-amount. A $600 gun (street price) is reg. $650 @ Cabela's. They have a sale : $590. I get a $150 gift card to spend later. Did I pay too much, also?? I think not.

Cabela's policy is a bit odd but not something to get upset about.

Heck, my local gunstore does the same thing.....

Sloppy

The Cabelas policy is sloppy though. A few months ago I went into Cabelas with my unloaded J Frame in a zipper case because I wanted to purchase a new holster for it. I took it to the greeter where he checked it for unloaded condition and carried it to the gun counter. He then put it on a shelf behind the gun counter and told me I could have it back when I was done shopping. I asked how I was to size a holster and he recommended I select a holster from the display and take it to the gun counter and I could try the holster with another J frame from the gun case. I asked him for a receipt or claim tag for my gun and he REFUSED. So, my gun was confiscated and placed on a shelf unaccompanied. And the guy that took my gun left the area.
When I was finished shopping, I went back to the gun counter and told the lady who was not present during the initial transaction that I needed to pick up my gun. Back on the shelf was my gun next to another customers really high zoot looking 1911. I told her my gun was the J Frame and she had someone escort me out of the builing with it. I easily could have told her the 1911 was mine just as someone else easily could have claimed my gun and left with it...later to be found out by security cameras.
I understand Cabelas policy, however I think they should do a better job of securing our guns if they take posession of them. They can be held liable for the security of, theft of, or crime committed with my gun after they confiscate it. It would have been better that the greeter denied me access to the store with my gun.
Since then I never go in with a gun in hand. I do go into other gun stores including Sportsmans Warehouse. My experience at Sportmans's is they just check it for empty status and let me carry it through the store and go about my business.

The place I used to work at years ago, would do it so that the people up at the front of the store knew it was not being stolen.

Last year I bought a new vexilar (fish finder)from Cabelas they also walked me out the door with that.

They did the same thing at Dick's a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was odd so I asked ***?

The guy said it use to be you couldn't buy ammo at the same time you bought the gun.

Lots Of Places Do It??

looks to me like more bottom feeder B S .....................................

Last year I bought a new vexilar (fish finder)from Cabelas they also walked me out the door with that.

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According to the majority of the posters in this thread, that is so you didn't buy ammo for it or open fire in the store. Or at least that they are just trying to create the illusion of protecting their customers from fish finders.

When I've purchased firearms at the larger retailers, it's always been that way. I've never taken issue with it. Their store, their policy. To me, there are other things to worry about other than this. No big deal. Been the same at Wal Mart (Beretta AL390 shotgun), Academy (S&W 642), or Sportsman's Warehouse (XD40 and Beretta Neos). Mom and Pop shops I've purchased other things at can do things differently. To each their own.

There's definitely no loss prevention advantage to it.

That's essentially assuming that they're trying to prevent the following sequence of events:
Step 1: See a gun.
Step 2: Buy the gun.
Step 3: Steal the gun.
Anybody else see a flaw in that logic?

Its about security theater, as somebody else previously mentioned. I won't buy from retailers with such policies - the recent trend seems to be to make it more of an ordeal for customers to make purchases. Put simply: Any company that doesn't want my business won't get it.

Maybe it's got more to do with people who'd take it out of your shopping cart when you're not looking and walk out the front door with the reciept taped to the box. Yup, folks leave their purses, checkbooks, even their kids in carts and then wander 1/2 the length of an isle searching for the next item on the list. If they escort you out of the store, they're no longer responsible for it getting lost, damaged, or stolen.

Pretty much every large gun seller in the country does that.

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At Sportsman's Warehouse someone from the gun counter has always carryed the gun to the cash register but after paying, I picked it up and walked out.

So, lemme get this straight. You're buying the gun, spending usually hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and you're unhappy that they appreciate your money so much that they go the extra mile to carry it out for you? I wish they did that at the show today. A Mosin is heavy without a sling. I probably didn't get the courtesy gun lugger service because I didn't spend over $100.

A Mosin is heavy without a sling. I probably didn't get the courtesy gun lugger service because I didn't spend over $100.

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Thankyou...

That made my day.

I understand and support the policy. Though you may be armed and have a side arm. Its their policy. IF it were my store i would insist on doing this. Then when one of my counter associates say what if its a police officer with a gun. Doesnt matter. We stick to the policy and stay consistant. We carry it to the front.


The day you stop doing the policy or slack up on it. Then you might as well not have a policy because some employees may adhere to the policy and some may not

I would imagine its insurance. Last time I bought a gun at a larg store they walked me to the front of the store but considering I paid for it up front it was still their gun. It had never bothered me.

So if the 'gun escort' takes you to the door must have bought a gun!!

We have a local supermarket thet will not let you carry a 6 pak out the door UNLESS in a bag. They have kinda lost it now that we have 12, 18 etc paks. I guess they dont have a bag that big.

I remember one chain store (K-Mart, maybe) that wouldn't allow you to buy a firearm and ammunition at the same time. That was plain silly.

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Well maybe. There have been several cases where some dolt decided to commit suicide and did it with their gun and their ammunition. Another scenario is where the BG asks to see a gun and asks about the ammo. He then loads the gun and robs them of the gun and their money.

Let's face it, "real" gun stores have multiple people with loaded guns on their hip to avoid those problems.