Funny thing happened at Walmart...

[Scrod314]

Hello... I forgot to post this on here, but a few months ago I was at Walmart to buy some .22LR. I accidentally said I needed some ammo for a pistol. Total slip of the tongue. I caught myself quick and said I meant for a rifle. The young lady looked at me for a moment, and then walked over to talk to her supervisor. They kept looking back at me. Then, the supervisor came over and told me the key to the ammo case was lost. She said it would be a week before they got a new one. I'm guessing that my tongue slip caused them to not sell the ammo to me. I came back two days later and a different person had the key. I don't know, maybe it was lost.

 

[GAF]

The store manager needs to hear about that.

 

[.455_Hunter]

I guess if you said you were shooting .30-30 in a pistol too, they wouldn't sell it to you. Why do they care?

 

[Mk-211]

What difference did it make? I'm cornfused.

What were they thinking, you were going to shoot the place up?

 

[Scrod314]

I just think they heard me say pistol ammo and the policy is they don't sell handgun ammunition. I could be wrong. And no, I was not acting weird. I was super polite. No argument or questions from me. I just said thank you. I am pretty clean cut, so I don't think I came across as criminal. Maybe the key really was lost, but I felt like it was because I mentioned ammo for a pistol and their policy is not to sell handgun ammo.

 

[mjsdwash]

Rude of them to lie to you, but they are right.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/doe...rtain-age-buy-firearms-or-ammunition-licensee
they have no way of knowing if your using something like 22, or 38 in a pistol unless they get lucky and you admit it, dumb criminal style. In this case you did, so your asking them to commit a crime. Call corporate anyway, unreasonable to lie about it, and corporate will flip out on the store manager over what walmart calls "integrity". Minor complaints cost store managers significant bonus money, so they care. The store manager DOES know about the lie about the key policy.

EDIT: I'm assuming this is an age thing.... if this is a moronic scary assault gun pandering to a fantasy customer base thing, just disregard.

 

[FFGColorado]

I guess if you said you were shooting .30-30 in a pistol too, they wouldn't sell it to you. Why do they care?

They don't...

the policy is they don't sell handgun ammunition

BUT they do..called 22LR...Go to a different WM, they are everywhere..

 

[DoubleMag]

A friend of mine worked at WM*** for over 15 years. I asked her, why didn't you ever become a dept. manager, or more?



She said ''I have a conscience.''

 

[jmr40]

Rifle and shotgun ammo can be sold to anyone 18+. Handgun ammo must be sold to people 21+. That is federal law and has been so for a very long time Walmart and many other stores have been asking the question going back at least 40 years to anyone who appears to be under 21. They will often ask for ID to prove your age. I'm old enough now that I haven't been asked in a long time, but remember always having to state that I was buying for a rifle prior to turning 21.

Walmart's new policy is to only sell ammo for guns they actually sell. Since they don't sell handguns, they no longer sell handgun ammo. I'd imagine this is store policy.

 

[FFGColorado]

That is federal law and has been so for a very long time Walmart and many other stores have been asking the question going back at least 40 years to anyone who appears to be under 21.

HA, '21YO' has been in my rear view mirror for 50 years but I got asked every time I bought ammo form WM, for my driver's license so they could put my birthdate into their register or it wouldn't accept the sale.

 

[stevekozak]

Rifle and shotgun ammo can be sold to anyone 18+. Handgun ammo must be sold to people 21+. That is federal law and has been so for a very long time Walmart and many other stores have been asking the question going back at least 40 years to anyone who appears to be under 21. They will often ask for ID to prove your age. I'm old enough now that I haven't been asked in a long time, but remember always having to state that I was buying for a rifle prior to turning 21.

Walmart's new policy is to only sell ammo for guns they actually sell. Since they don't sell handguns, they no longer sell handgun ammo. I'd imagine this is store policy.

I got carded for .270 ammo at Walmart yesterday. I do not look the decades younger it would take to make me under 18 again, and have grey hair in abundance. The clerk asked for ID, looked at my DL carefully, and then said, "Oh, ok, you are over 18, it is ok." He wasn't a mean dude or anything, rather pleasant, really, but I guess he thought he had to follow the procedures to the letter. I noted that Walmart (first time I have been there in months) still had quite a few shotguns in their little whirly display. I was surprised, as people have made it sound like everyone is snatching up available weapons like mad.

 

[buck460XVR]

I. And no, I was not acting weird

But you changed your story to them, and may have exhibited body language of being uncomfortable while doing it. Quite possibly was all the "weird" they needed to say no.

Rude of them to lie to you, but they are right.

Well....the OP lied to them first. Both were being polite about it. Any ammo/gun seller has the right to deny a sale, for whatever reason they want. Just how it is. Their store, their rules, their right. Folks seem to hate WalMart, love to whine about it, but still flock there like geese to a newly picked corn field. For the amount of times I see Walmart in the title of a thread here, this site should be called "The WalMart Road"........

 

[doubleh]

I can't say I really blame Walmart on this one. The "lost key" excuse was lame though.

My wife drug, maybe I should say coerced instead, me to Walmart week before last. I detoured by the sporting good counter to see what was in stock and they has one lonely box of A17 17HMR ammo and I bought it. The guy told me to just pay for it up front which hasn't happened to me in many years, It's always been pay at the sporting goods register and produce your driver's license.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Your problem is buying things from Walmart. They're stance on firearms should be enough to get you to go to a different store.
The only way stores listen is if their profit is impacted.

 

[stonebuster]

When I bought ammo from Walmart in the past, they did occasionally fail to find the key or person that had the key and I had to return later. That was when they were closing out their inventory of handgun ammo and it was incredibly cheap. I bought a lot but wish I bought more considering today's pricing and non-availability. The workers there got to know me well and would go out of their way to look out in the storeroom or tell me when they expected another delivery. I wasn't willing to take a stand against Walmart at the time because the prices were insanely cheap. BTW, their profit was negatively impacted by their choice to discontinue handgun ammo. That's the price of caving in. Unfortunately, Walmartians will continue to shop there.

 

[Cannibul]

Walmart's new policy is to only sell ammo for guns they actually sell. Since they don't sell handguns, they no longer sell handgun ammo. I'd imagine this is store policy.

This isn't true. They sell 223 bolt guns but don't carry any 223 ammo.

They decided not to carry handgun ammo and "assault" rifle ammo.

They only quit carrying handguns in Alaska in September of last year, the same time they decided to quit carrying the ammo mentioned above.

 

[Sistema1927]

I haven't bought any ammo at Walmart in years, but when they asked me I told them "both". I left it up to them how they key it into their computer.

If they wanted to pin me down further, I told them "both, I have both rifles and handguns in .22, and I can't tell you right now in which of them I will use it."

 

[Alex Clayton]

Since I almost never shop at Wally any more I had no idea they had stopped selling hand gun ammo. That will make it interesting when people buy .22 ammo there. Wife still shops at the one here. Will have to warn her to not mention hand gun if she buys .22 ammo LOL

 

[bassjam]

Circa 2000 when I was 18, whenever I'd buy .22 ammo at Walmart they'd ask me if it was for a rifle or pistol.

And I was ALWAYS buying it for my 10/22, NEVER my High Standard Double Nine revolver.

 

[Alex Clayton]

Circa 2000 when I was 18, whenever I'd buy .22 ammo at Walmart they'd ask me if it was for a rifle or pistol.

And I was ALWAYS buying it for my 10/22, NEVER my High Standard Double Nine revolver.

Yep before I just went to ordering it I used to always buy at Wally. The register would beep and a message would pop up telling clerk to ask hand gun? Is buyer over 21? By the time the Wally's came here I was old enough that a lot of the clerks did not even ask, they just pushed the buttons to make the sale. Some of them would freeze up and you could see them reading the message. I would say "yes its for a handgun and yes I am over 21." They would smile and push the button to finish. I did get a kick out of the last time we bought a gun there. They said we could not buy any ammo at the same time and they made some manager walk out to the parking lot carrying the gun to the car for us.

 

[daniel craig]

You got your ammo two days later. The rest is gravy. Lying or not, doesn’t really hurt you that much and there are plenty of places to get ammo.

 

[Craig_AR]

I accidentally said I needed some ammo for a pistol. Total slip of the tongue.

Keep in mind that at WalMart you were just up against a company policy and sales rule. However, had you made a comparable slip of the tongue (e.g., "My brother said he'd like a gun like this. I'll take it.") to an FFL for a firearm purchase, that definitely would have killed the sale immediately. If the Wally World staff is as savvy as the average LGS clerk, they could have simply told you no sale, and explained why.

 

[skoro]

I accidentally said I needed some ammo for a pistol.

That's on you.

No one ever needs to mention rifle/pistol/shotgun to a sales clerk, especially those that pass for clerks at a Walmart.

Just say, "I'll take 5 boxes of CCI 22LR ammo, please."

 

[Vkt]

I stopped by the local Wally world and asked to look at a rifle.
The 2 employees behind the counter stated a new rule that they could only show me the gun and that I could not handle it.
I walked out.

 

[GAF]

Wal Mart sells .22 ammo. It can be used in a handgun or a rifle. So what magic takes place that make the .22 ammo they sell not work in a handgun?