What the hell are you folks doing?
Look at yourselves.
You sound like a bunch of spoilt brats with nothing better to do than whine and carry on because some store "won't let" , or "you can't" or some other whiny butt something or another.
Internet is Global.
This Gun Forum is Global.
I hope like hell Wal-Mart threads become another Subject THR does not allow.
Personally, I am sick and damn tired of them.
Yeah, I hate Wal-Mart. MY Reasons go w-a-y back to the early days of Wal-Mart, Dollar General and Family Dollar Stores.
This is before some members were an itch in their daddy's britches.
Go look up these stores, with histories and beginnings.
Yes, I have met Sam Walton. Nice guy, and his fear, was Wal-Mart becoming what it has. Politics is my reason and that is all I will say about that.
The REALITY is...
I have moved some states away, and in a rural area. This is place is not even big enough to get a dot on a map.
I have one "store" in town, a gas station/convenience store up near the highway.
The closest town to me, of any size, that has anything is about 15 miles away.
And you guessed it.
Wal-mart is what you do. The Mom & Pops have retired, died off, or whatever.
The next "big city" for me is 30 miles or so.
That is where I had to take back the Rental Stuff I used in moving.
I am told if I really want to buy firearm stuff, I need to travel about 60 miles away.
I ain't the only member around here that is not living in a big city with "choices".
Oh I have lived in bigger cities. Oh I had mom and pop gun stores, and Franchises like Academy and Ganders.
Ganders tee totally pissed me off, and I and mine had just dropped about $3000.00 in a week's time.
They totally talked down to a little girl. Not just one, other gun folks did too.
Well behaved young lady and she was just looking at the "pretty guns" and not even touching them.
Heck the expensive Beretta O/U in the special showcase, she did not put finger prints on the glass.
That matter was "dealt with". Trust me, it is a good thing I took the little girl outside, because I was livid!
I let her mom and some other ladies do the "hell hath no fury like a momma having her daughter treated like that!"
Wal-Mart is a hot topic that cannot be discussed on THR. I have already asked Staff to make it one of the "off limit" subjects.
Do you folks not realize, we have members that are Anti's? They know darn well what buttons to push around here to get folk riled up.
Have you folks not noticed when some political something or legislative thing is going down, the influx of trouble makers that post as they do around here?
Trust me, some of what has gone on, has been in the wee hours and some of us have assisted Staff in cleaning up, and you folks never saw the threads.
Do you think these Anti's actually quote you correctly and use what you type in the context you mean it?
WE are our own worst enemies.
Hey, some folks do not have the choices others do around here in where they buy.
Some have all sorts of reasons as to why there are limits, or mdse is not available.
Some is local "reasons" from political flavor, to legislative to who know what, including Econ 101.
i.e. The nearest Wal-Mart to me, pulled all Zippo products.
I mean even the flints and wicks have been pulled.
The store mangers are not happy at all. They cannot get a straight answer.
Why are these Wal-Mart employees, and again, mgmt upset?
Because they looked me in the eyeball and said Zippo Lighters were one of the fire making tools that allowed them to survive some serious weather.
Zippo, Firesteel, Matches and Bic.
The Zippo worked best in the wind and weather.
Oh you can get Ronson fuel, and Ronson flints at the tobacco dept in WM, just you cannot find a wick if your life depended on it.
The Ronson fuel is fine, just is wise to use Zippo flints in a Zippo due to the length of the flint and hardness of flint.
So...I will have wait for someone to send me wicks, and flints.
I cannot even buy another Zippo locally, not that I am aware of, and I have called around.
A little tip.
It is going to get worse before it gets better.
I was around in the 80's when interest rates shot up and gold went over $800 an ounce.
I was around in the 70's when the economy had problems and I was around in the 60's with civil unrests...and even remember as a kid, when Milk was hard to get.
So babies got the real milk, and powdered milk was used for cooking and everything else.
Guess what folks? A Staff member has shared with me more than once this year, Milk is hard to get where he lives.
Suggestion:
Don't go to Walmart.
If you do, quit bitchin' about it, on public forums.
Better yet, if Staff makes Wal-Mart threads off limits, we won't have to worry about it and Anti's will have to find another forum to get posts about Gun Owners and WalMart.
Then with the free time folks will have, not having WM threads, they can write letters to legislators and other RKBA stuff.
