Forced to show ID at Acadamy Sports for purchase of gun cleaning solvent

Status
Not open for further replies.
You weren't "forced" to do anything.

If you were, I'm sure you'd have a good lawsuit on your hands.

I would've asked if they do it for everything, or just gun-related items. If it's gun-related only, then I'll let them put it back themselves.
 
I've had to show my i.d. to buy air in a can for computer cleaning, spray paint, muriatic acid for my pool, Sudafed, etc... The list goes on and on. I'm not surprised that either local, state or the federal government has placed restrictions on buying gun cleaning solvent. All because liberals blame inanimate objects for nut jobs' behavior.


Posted from Thehighroad.org App for Android
 
au_prospector said:
Finally she just glared at me and stated, "Well you could be inhaling it you know". I work for a large financial institution and was in the store wearing a business suit. Inhaling it?
Click to expand...
That makes one exempt? FWIW quite few "suits" are drug abusers. Cocaine ring a bell?

I've been randomly asked for ID at WalMart for normal purchases when using a credit card. While I have no problem with that, it does amuse me when the "flag" for ID comes up on a $10 purchase when the $500 one goes unchecked.
I recently was subject to the age check at WalMart for something totally benign, can't recall what it was but the clerk and I were both laughing about it.
 
I was in a gas station and the lady was using the fake money pen on every bill that every coustomer presented to her.it took a while to get thru that line.In general store clerks can be a real pain.
 
au_prospector said:
Relax buck, it wasnt some kind of crazy rant. I asked the cashier what my ID had to do with my purchase. Did it three times and got three different explainations, NOT ONE of which had anything to do with being 18 and I am nearly 3 times that age. Moved away from the register and had a phone conversation with a supervisor who was in back of the store and got basically the same response again nothing about any 18 age rule. I then simply left.

Dont know where you live that you need to be 18 to buy mineral spirits, adhesive and the like. Certainly not around where I live. You need to show ID to purchase gasoline too?
Click to expand...


If not a rant, what then? An informative warning to others that might buy solvents? Seems to me to be another of the incessant threads about the "stupid guy/gal at the counter at insert store name here". In all of which the OP implies they are more informed/intelligent than the minimum wage employee. What really is impressive that in lieu of just showing some form of ID, you take the time to rant to three other employees and a supervisor.....all of who restate and confirm the store policy. Still, they are the dumb ones?

Don't know where you live either, but odds are there are many products you buy everyday that require you to be over the age of 18. Because of your age, you just don't get asked up front. Don't believe me, send your 12 year old child/grandchild someplace to buy "white-out" correction fluid. Huffing has become one of the biggest threats to our youth today. Despite all the negative publicity, young people with no grasp on reality or mortality still do it. Like cigarettes, making those items harder to get seems to be the only way to slow them down. Was a time when my local supermarket restricted the purchase of canned whipped cream to folks over eighteen because it was a favorite of "huffers" at the time. Anyone here my age or older knows this is one reason, other than the negative health issues, that Hoppe's, rubber cement and model airplane glue have all been reformulated over the years.

I apologize if your rant made me rant.........:D
 
What does having a defective product have to do with complaining to a store or manufacturer that you are upset with a policy?
Click to expand...

because you said

Again, who do you think cares? The individual consumer is a very small fish in a very big pond.
Click to expand...

Because they do care. especially if it costs them sales. One voice turns into many voices. If no one says anything than nothing gets said at all. My point was to make the call, which you evidently think doesn't matter at all. Read what you said.
 
This falls under the category of "whatever" for me. I am a vet, a long time shooter and a longtime firearms forum participant. I am on every list you can think of, so rather than get fired up over something so trivial I just let them see my id.

If snowden has taught us anything, it's that privacy in this country is an absolute illusion.

sent from my Galaxy Note II.
 
Kroger has a requirement if you are buying gift cards $100 or more that they need to key in your drivers license information. Which is ridiculous since I am paying for it with a Kroger Credit Card. Bought shoes last month, lady asks for my phone number...told her I don't give out that information...she seemed a bit taken back then asked me for my email address and I told her I don't give out that information either.
 
Stupid store policies piss me off.

Buying some beer, I'm in my 60's, cashier asks for my ID. I say use your eyes. She says it's store policy to check ID for every alcohol sale. I say my policy is not to give it.

If the store policy is stupid, I'm leaving. Plenty of other places sell the same items.
 
Speedo66 said:
Stupid store policies piss me off.

Buying some beer, I'm in my 60's, cashier asks for my ID. I say use your eyes. She says it's store policy to check ID for every alcohol sale. I say my policy is not to give it.

If the store policy is stupid, I'm leaving. Plenty of other places sell the same items.
Click to expand...

We've got stores here that ask ID for everyone present at time of purchase for alcohol. It's a pain when my g/f leaves her ID at home if she isn't driving...

Of course, ask the "what about parents with kids" and they just reply that "you can tell"... :rolleyes:

ID for Hoppes is probably the same as ID for ammo, paint, glue, R-rated DVD's, etc. Just verifying age.
 
Some stores are weird. Had a gunshop ID me for black powder (or whatever the substitute pyrodex stuff is) saying 'it was the law' even though I pointed out I've bought many bottles before and never shown ID (at different stores). Just to test it I went to another store and bought another bottle and no ID, no issue.
 
As a regular customer of Academy I've seen instances of such screwups. Notifing the manager usually took care of such screwups by notifying their tech support. It happens and is usually fixed by the next day depending on the work in front of that request.

Now Dicks opened a new store in El Paso Texas today and I was shocked at the information they needed to complete a sale. Being over 60 years of age I"m sure I don't look under 21. They didn't want to confirm my age by looking at my ID they wanted to enter my date of birth into their computer and they wanted my CC to confirm my identity by recording the last 4 numbers of my CC number. Don't provide this information then no sale. I left a brick of CCI SV 22lr and three 10 round 10*22 mags at the counter. They will never see me again. I now know where Dicks got its name.
 
Several years ago, the Feds passed what was called the "Check 21" law to reduce the "float" on checks (the time they take to clear your bank. It was not too long after that that I no longer had to show my ID at the two local Walmarts as they were storing MY driver's license number on THEIR computers!!! :fire: :cuss:
Considering the TJMaxx and so many other recent database hackings, you have to wonder how secure those records are! :eek:

Now, they process the checks and give them back to you at the Point-of-Sale (PoS). If I had wanted electronic access to my checking account, I would have had a debit card a long time ago. I didn't (want e-access) and I still don't (have a debit card). :fire:
 
I'm sure they ID for a BB gun at Walmart Houston Rd Florence KY. It says that you have to be 18 to buy a BB gun. I never bought a BB gun there, I do know Meijer never asked for my ID to prove my age when I bought a BB gun several years ago.
 
Because they do care. especially if it costs them sales. One voice turns into many voices. If no one says anything than nothing gets said at all. My point was to make the call, which you evidently think doesn't matter at all. Read what you said.
Click to expand...

I know exactly what I said. And what you fail to realize is that the store doesn't care, the company doesn't care, and fellow patrons do not care. Not one person cares what YOUR experience was...not one. In fact, if I am the guy behind one of these crybabies in line and they hold me up ranting to the clerk, they are going to have a much larger problem than showing an I.D.
 
If getting entered into a store database is your worry; just cover up the name, address and ID # on your driver's license with electricians tape. All they should need your ID for is to verify you are of legal age to purchase. The only legal people who need to see the information under the tape are police officers during a traffic stop.
 
I have to show ID or have a cashier authorize me to purchase all sorts of things at walmart from spray paint to ammo. I figure they are just doing their job no reason to get upset. I hope you dont think that a business suit means you wouldnt huff inhaleants. There are a lot of suits and former suits who are strung out on inhalents and pills and alcohol and meth. Ive seen some pretty well dressed powderheads.
 
Ive been asked for ID at walmart for buying paper targets...seems anything assosciated with guns is marked in the system as requiring ID
 
My universal response to such requests has become, "Enter your own info". They don't get it at first...you enter your email, because I'm not giving you mine.

Geno
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

T
  • Locked
Dallas Police Forced To Shoot, Kill Woman
2
Replies
35
Views
2K
aerod1
A
J
  • Locked
Woman faces jail for refusing to show ID
2
Replies
38
Views
2K
Al Norris
A
D
  • Locked
Guns,Ammo Sales Skyrocket in New Orleans
2 3
Replies
59
Views
4K
peyton
P
P
  • Locked
Dick's Poor Experience
2 3
Replies
73
Views
3K
rbernie
rbernie
D
  • Locked
Russian TV Shows Off Range Of Security Forces Silent Weapons
Replies
6
Views
2K
Triad
T
Back
Top