Dick’s Sporting Goods new ammo purchase policy clarified…

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Templar223 said:
now asking purchasers of ammunition to verify they are U.S. citizens before allowing them to complete ammunition purchases.
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Someone forget to tell them that legal resident aliens aren't prohibited by that law they cite?

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They are covering their backsides with a "good faith" effort. It's annoying, but they rarely have what I want at a reasonable price, anyway.
 
And people who are here illegally won't just press "yes".
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If some legislation were to materialize that could hold the retailer accountable....

The fact that they asked and you lied takes them off the hook.


FWIW- there was a big hoopla over this some time ago in CA....they were doing this there when I lived there, and thats going on a couple years now.

Real easy solution : Dicks is expensive for ammo, and their gun counter guys are in general much like the namesake on the front of the store.


Just buy somewhere else.......
 
About as effective as the age check to pornographic sites asking if someone is over 18. The dumbest 17 year old knows what to say to that question. As would the dumbest illegal Mexican say yes to Dick's question. Glad to see common sense reign in the retail world.
 
For what its worth....being an illegal immigrant doesn't necessarily mean being a mexican, or speaking spanish.
 
Let's put it this way, Dick's IDs me to buy gun slings, a piece of rubber (palm saver for black powder ram rod), and anything else from that corner of the store. This doesn't surprise me one bit.
 
Come down to Texas, y'all, and learn somethin'. About a quarter of my workforce speak Spanish as a first language, and maybe 10% speak almost no English. Every one of them is here legally - the vast majority are native-born Texans like me. It bothers me that they get viewed with suspicion or singled out for extra attention when exercising common liberties. It bothers me to know that law enforcement views them with suspicion I wouldn't get. It bothers me to hear certain sentiments expressed; it especially bothers me that the feds seem to be profiling here near the border and that chains like Dicks are so ready and willing to go along with extra-legal regulation to cover their own butts.
 
I agree with the poster above.

And ultimately it is a CYA.

The article we wrote tries to put down some of the wild rumors we heard. "They are recording ammo purchases because they sell AR-15s. It's a new law in IL" is how one member reported it to us. "And they make you sign something before you can go forward with the transaction at the cashier."

Classic example of not hearing it right, coupled information overload and anger, and then trying to remember it. Just a train wreck.

It's not nearly as tin-foil hat-ish as it was reported to us.

For which I am glad.

John
 
Well, before this one gets shut down as an anchor babies thread......

I agree with ya Texan Scott- and I'd like that one on the record.
 
That could turn into a lot of questions.

Are you mentally stable?

Are you going to ill someone?

Are you going to commit armed robbery?

And the list goes on.

How about just "Is it legal for you to buy this item?"
 
For what its worth....being an illegal immigrant doesn't necessarily mean being a mexican, or speaking spanish.
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True but I am pretty sure most of us (at least I am) are going for gross generalizations and stereotypes. In my hometown we had more French-Canadian illegals and not a single Mexican but to each their own.
 
It bothers me that they get viewed with suspicion or singled out for extra attention when exercising common liberties. It bothers me to know that law enforcement views them with suspicion I wouldn't get.
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Much like my Muslim friends in Nashville.


In Chicago hamicide reports white = hispanic. Explain this?
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I believe Castilians are considered Caucasian.

Used to visit Dick's before it was Dick's. After a couple of GIs tried to buy firearms and were denied because of Dick's policy (not a legal requirement), I found better places to shop.
 
Mr Rogers There is nothinf fair. In Chicago hamicide reports white = hispanic. Explain this?
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1. Hispanic is not a race, but an ethnicity.
2. I'm impressed that Chicago keeps data on pork related deaths.
 
The interesting thing about England is that their census actually provides some breakdowns that we, here in the US, don't. It's public record there what race, age group etc is on the dole etc.
Here, even though "they" know what kind of car you drive and how many bathrooms you have via the census takers, very little useful data is made public for whatever reason.
 
Good god .. the courts hold that the cops can't as you if you are a citizen, but Dicks Sporting goods can?

What wrong with this picture?
 
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