Signing for ammo???

[Captal_de_Buch]

I went to "Dunhams" sporting goods Friday to get some of the new Wolf 7.62x39.. they had a somewhat decent price, 40 rounds for $5, but I could do better at the Indy 1500..

Anyway, the kid at the counter tries to get me to fill out "paperwork" for the ammo..

This is Indiana.. we don't do paperwork for ammo, not even at Walmart.

So I threw the ammo back on the table and walked out..

Anyway.. I didn't think much of it, I just thought it was a dumb anti-gun kid hassling me, until I read about 3 other guys running into the same problem at other Dunhams stores in Indiana..

Has anyone one here ran into this at a Dunhams in Indiana??????

I haate to get into it with Dunhams because the have some of the best prices on AK's ($299).. but.. ..

?????

 

[Geno]

Not here in Michigan

I haven't experienced this anywhere in Michigan. This is why I buy at Gander mountain or the gun show. No hassles. Were they simply checking your age? Pistol ammo. here I think one has to be 21.

Have you seen the lastest proposal to number ALL ammunition with a serial number, and it would (at point of sale) be registered in your name. Projectile and case, primer and all, would be laser engraved. Sounds stupid to me. To date, no crime in America has been solved by the projectile/cartridge registration programs. So, why this?

Doc2005

 

[pezo]

My 2 cents. gander mountain is EXPENSIVE. shop at small gun shops. franchises charge more.

 

[Captal_de_Buch]

Have you seen the lastest proposal to number ALL ammunition with a serial number, and it would (at point of sale) be registered in your name. Projectile and case, primer and all, would be laser engraved.

Yes.. I saw that.. and to say the least it's unnerving..

I wonder if they will make criminals out of those of us who cast bullets..?? for making unregistered projectiles...

We will have to keep fighing these people... for the rest of our lives.. never stop... or they will bury us...

 

[R.H. Lee]

So I threw the ammo back on the table and walked out..

Why did you do that? Why didn't you ask for the manager and get the story? Tell him if it's not required by law, why should the store require it? Make a stink, tell him you're gonna get the word out and people might just shop somewhere else.

 

[SkunkApe]

One Dunham's (out of two or three I shop at) did that to me in Michigan. I didn't by the ammo either.

 

[Ryder]

K-Mart tried that on me back in the early 70s. I told them there was no law requiring them to document me and they said there was. No sale and I had my ammo from a different store a few minutes later. I don't patronize idiots. Never once stepped foot inside a K-Mart again and I build my own these days.

 

[Jack T.]

I posted a thread on GT just this weekend. . .same thing happened to a budy of mine in Bowling Green, OH

He let them keep their ammo also.

 

[22-rimfire]

FYI: Back in the early 70's, actually after passage of the 1968 Gun Control Act, stores were required to have you sign for handgun ammunition, but not rifle ammo. That changed as it was a stupid law. Walmart still checks ID on handgun ammunition at least where I shop.

 

[chris in va]

I'm not quite sure what paperwork is going to do.

Too bad I don't live there, the manager and I would have a talk with the state law in my hand.

 

[R.H. Lee]

Some drugstores make you sign the electronic pad for prescription medicine. HIPPA regulations, they say. I know a guy who signs everything from "Bill Clinton" to "Mickey Mouse". Just a scofflaw, I guess.

 

[blackhawk2000]

The last gun I bought at Dunhams they wanted my number for the ATF paper work. I just told them I don't have a phone. The guy was pretty insistent about getting one, as I'm pretty sure he knew I was lying. I told him if the ATF wants to get in touch with me, I'm not going to make it any easier for them to do. No signing for ammo though. Michigan.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Have you seen the lastest proposal to number ALL ammunition with a serial number, and it would (at point of sale) be registered in your name. Projectile and case, primer and all, would be laser engraved. Sounds stupid to me. To date, no crime in America has been solved by the projectile/cartridge registration programs. So, why this?

They can't even get a significant number of illegal guns off the street, what makes them think they could even begin to track ammunition? I can just see it. This crap would make LEO's so lazy in the future, they would just write off a homicide committed with "unregistered gun and bullet" as impossible to solve.

 

[Majic]

Citing state or federal law means nothing if it's just a store policy and the policy breaks no laws. As there is no law specifically forbidding signing for ammunition the store hasn't done anything wrong. You either except the store policy or shop someplace else.

 

[wizard of oz]

Doesn't even happen here in oz ! Got to show a firearms license but the details aren't recorded.