Sometimes you just want two bricks of .22LR

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After a nice range session yesterday (found my new 9mm load, finally dialed in my P22) I was out of .22LR ammo and needed to "refuel".

As I am getting my .22LR ammo I am asked for ID. I'm 28, starting to rock a widow's peak (not too bad yet, though my hairline is WAY higher than it was when I was 18...still of legal age to buy .22LR ammo) and if I pass for under 35, well, I consider it a good day.

Later in the evening I hit up a bar for some Shiner and wings. Carded? Nope.

Guess I don't understand what the point of checking my age. I guess 28 year old engineer types (khakis and a polo shirt were my attire) must be causing a ruckus...

I actually asked the guy if he was serious.

The kicker was that a brick also went up $2.
 
Store policy. Anything with an age requirement need a DOB to be entered into the system during purchase. Let's not hassle the poor guy who works for a little above minimum wage at a cash register. I don't know why bars let that slide so often. May have something to do with all those undercover operations on 6th where they keep selling booze to minors.
 
I worked at a gas station for about six months and carded everybody who looked under 40 and wanted cigs/booze. Didn't bother hardly anybody, and those it did didn't hang around long enough for them to bother me. Their feelings weren't worth my job.
 
when I was 18...still of legal age to buy .22LR ammo
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Not at a place where I tried to buy .22LR!! :cuss:

When I was 19, I wanted to buy a box of 7.62x39 and a few boxes of 22LR. I was at one of those self-scan things, and I showed my ID to the cashier for the 7.62 ammo, and all was well. But when I scanned the .22 ammo, they wouldn't sell it to me because I was under 21!

Sorry, had to get that off my chest. It's been a while, and I'm still sore about it. Anyway, I've never been "carded" except for that time, and maybe another couple of times I can't remember. I always hear how I look MUCH older than I am.
 
I've never been carded for anything, (mostly because I don't smoke or drink) but I wouldn't get upset if someone asked. The clerks just doing his/her job. Like someone said above, I've worked in a convience store, and I carded most anyone who didn't have a Rip Van Winkle beard. I wasn't going to (1) lose the job (2) possibly go to jail because some kid wanted to buy smokes and beer. I did eventually quit the job because I got tired of checking ID's and selling *&%$#*&* lottery tickets.
 
LOL: At my age, if someone cards me I take it as a compliment!

But the sad/funny thing is, at Wal Mart when I buy .22LR they will ask me if it's for a pistol or a rifle. Talk about missing the point! Again, given my age, I just mentally flip a coin for the answer. But my son, before he turned 21, had to always answer "rifle." (For those who are from "elsewhere," in my state 18 yrs is legal for rifle, 21 yrs for pistol. No matter if it's .22lr, .45ACP, 9x19mm, or any caliber you can think of that both rifles and pistols are chambered for. Go figure!)

I'm glad TPTB are looking out for our safety, as always.

Sheeh,
Albert
 
Funny thing, my hands were practically black from shooting...after washing times 1. Always takes me about 3 times to get them squeaky clean again.

My problem isn't that they are asking, it is the fact that such a policy is in place that requires them to physically take my license. They can't just look at it and see if I am of age (especially since most states have very different licenses for under and over 21). My problem is that there is actually a law on the books differentiating handgun and rifle ammo.

And my problem is that lawmakers/corporations take away the discretion that separates us from machines and replace it with mindless policies and rules and remove any form of freewill. A 10 year old probably can't tell the difference between an 16 year old and a 21 year old or a 20 year old and a 30 year old...but a 50 year old guy behind the counter I am sure can.
 
Why did you not get the ammo online or get a friend or relative over 21 to buy it for you at the store.
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Many online places still require proof of age to order ammo. And, really, at the time, ordering ammo online hadn't occurred to me. Keep in mind, I've only been a serious gun owner/shooter for a couple of years.

I was also alone at the store, and it would have looked fishy if some kid handed you some ammo and money and asked you to buy it for him.

But what really irritates me is that they didn't ask if it was for a handgun or a rifle. I even quoted the law to them, I told them it was for a rifle (true) and still, I couldn't buy it.

However, that is the one and only time I have ever been carded when purchasing ammo. If I was going through a conventional checkout line, I probably wouldn't have been.
 
I am in Texas as well.
I bought ten (yes, ten) bricks of .22 LR at Wal-Mart this past Tuesday afternoon.

Didn't ask me for ID, didn't ask me if it was for a rifle or pistol, didn't ask me for anything...except for $98.80 plus tax. I gave it to him. :)
 
LOL: At my age, if someone cards me I take it as a compliment!
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I do too, and I turn 26 this month.

The problem is that third shift has taken its toll. Normally when someone guesses my age its somewhere between 32 and 35.
 
Not for nothing, I am 55, under 30's look like babies to me. You will show an ID in my shop if I do not know you. Consider it a compliment.:D

For what it's worth the diner I have breakfast at hired a new girl for the summer she looks 14-15 years old after getting to know her in a couple of weeks I find out from her
1. She is married
2. She has 3 children
3. She knows she looks 14-15 but is 24.

She uses it to her advantage to get better tips. She said she make 2-3 times more waitressing when she is pregnant making 1000-1500 more a week.

Getting old bites it!
 
I was reading the other day that some state passed a law that everybody gets carded when buying beer, not liquor, just beer. No matter if you look 70, you get carded. The reasoning behind it is it takes the judgment factor out of the picture.
I actually got carded the other day buying something or other. I'm 52 and I forgot what it was.
 
The only time I get carded it is to see if I am eligible for the senior citizen discount. Come to think of it, that hasn't happened very often the last few years.
 
i actually had a clerk at walmart recently ask me if the 12ga slugs and the 100 pack of winchester target loads were for a pistol!

when i told her it was for a shotgun she told me the local gangs have been using "semi auto shotgun pistols" recently because they can fit in your pocket!!!

i just told her i did not own such a thing and purchased my ammo.

funny thing is she was so concerned with these supposed pistols that she forgot to card me! (i am of legal age for any type of ammo)
 
Walmarts in NYS are more fun. They actually ask you what you are going to be shooting the ammo from and if you say pistol, they want to see your NYS pistol license.

- "Winchester White Box 9MM please, the 100-rounder."
* "Is this for a pistol or a rifle?"
- "Pistol."
* "I am going to need to see your pistol license then."
- "Ummm, I didn't bring it." (Not true, I had it and was carrying)
* "Well, I can't sell the ammo to you then."
- "Oh. . . Well, can I buy it without my pistol license and shoot it from my 9mm rifle then?"
* :confused: "Well . . . if you are going to be shooting it from a rifle then ok . . . I guess . . . "
- "OK, I will only shoot THIS box from my rifle, and next time I want to buy some 9mm for my pistol, I will be sure to bring my pistol license."
* "Sounds good" (starts to ring up the sale)
- "Could you write 'RIFLE ONLY' on the box for me so I don't forget?"

Guess what? HE DID!
 
I was at Wal-Mart buying WD40 and deodorant. They carded me and I'm a thin-haired 33. Of course I had to ask the cashier why I had to be eighteen to buy deodorant. She didn't get it. At the same store, I don't think I've ever been carded for ammo. Crazy.
 
After reading threads like this, I feel sooooo much safer knowing that the bureaucrats are protecting us. Don't y'all? :banghead:
 
I was at Walmart buying WD40 and deodorant.
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I've been carded at Walmart for nail polish remover (for my wife), lawn fertilizer, acetone, spray paint, and a few other things like that. I have never been carded at Walmart for smokes or alcohol. Been carded for .22LR but not .45 when I bought that separately.

Why do they ask if it's for a rifle or handgun?
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Because handgun is 21 and older, but rifle/shotgun is 18 and over. .22LR can be used for both so basically if you're shooting it out of a handgun you have to be 21 and if you're shooting it out of a rifle you only have to be 18. I usually say "carbine" and it confuses the register monkey.
 
Why do they ask if it's for a rifle or handgun?
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Because handgun is 21 and older, but rifle/shotgun is 18 and over. .22LR can be used for both so basically if you're shooting it out of a handgun you have to be 21 and if you're shooting it out of a rifle you only have to be 18. I usually say "carbine" and it confuses the register monkey.
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I bought two boxes of 9mm at Wal-Mart last week. They did check my FOID, which has my DOB on it, indicating I'm 38. Still they asked if it was for a handgun.
 
"Next time tell them it's for your machine gun".

NO!!!!! I did that at Wal-Mart trying to be funny. The guy refused to sell to me saying machine guns are illegal. I had to wait for him to call a MGR and convince him I was kidding.
 
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