Walmart taking personal info on ammo sales?

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Was talking with a gunsmith I know today, he mentioned that he was at walmart buying 22lr shells. When at the counter, the lady asked for his drivers license which he gave to her. When he asked "what, I don't look 20?" she said they take your information on ammo sales, and asked if he was going to use the ammo in a handgun. :what:

??!?!:scrutiny: WTH is this about? Walmart has teamed up with big brother? I shoot paper targets with my dad/son/brother on the weekends at a gun range now I'm a frickin' criminal having my info entered into a server?

Has this happened to anyone else?
 
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CYA move more than likely. Kind of like how if you look young but have a valid ID, the clerk may make you "sign the sheet". Then if something goes sideways they can shed responsibility. "Oh no. We thought he was 21. We checked his ID. See here where he signed?"

There are a ton of flaws in that thinking, I know. I'm just saying that that's probably the line of thought. It is the result of a litigious society. *shrug*


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My local Wall-Mart simply asks if it's rifle/handgun and if you are 18/21. Unless you look close to the age they don't even glance at the drivers liscence, let alone enter you into some sorta big brother list.

Take a deep breath...Wall-Mart is not out to get you.
 
This was at a Boise ID Walmart? I'm gonna have to check on that one myself (in other words box of ammo on my way home). Not entirely sure but I think that is out of bounds in Idaho, in other words if you refuse to provide the info I don't think they can refuse to sell as it's not Idaho law.
 
FWIW, everytime you use a credit card or debit card, your purchases are logged against an actual entity (that would be you) as opposed to an anonymous purchase with cash. Some retailers will internally track customers purchases for marketing studies, however what they do with the info after or in addition to that is unknown to me. Some stores used to have these "discount cards" that gave shoppers that subscribed to them discounts on retail items (supermarkets did this alot). The cards also tracked your purchases so the stores could use the data for marketing purposes. (Again, any other use of the data is certainly up for speculation). Just something to think about if you are concerned about purchases being tracked.

Now as far as taking ID info for ammo purchases, my funshop never ID's me for ammo purchases (although they all know me there), there is no "paper trail". Online ammo purchases are a whole other ball game. Obviously, Wallies is starting to document ammo purchases in some locations for some reason. (It's been over 7 months since I've darkened a Wallie's doorstep.)
 
Mine doesn't collect info. I'm in my mid-twenties so they sometimes (but not always) ask for ID if I'm buying 9mm or .45. For .22lr or shotgun rounds I don't even need that.
 
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My local Wall-Mart simply asks if it's rifle/handgun and if you are 18/21. Unless you look close to the age they don't even glance at the drivers liscence, let alone enter you into some sorta big brother list.

Take a deep breath...Wall-Mart is not out to get you.
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ditto in my neck of the woods.
 
I just picked up a 250 pack of Remington UMC .45 ACP at the WalMart in Lakewood WA (while openly carrying my 1911) and they didn't ask me anything.
 
It's the picture taking thing that bothers me although I haven't checked my local WM to see if they have implemented that yet.

If they do I'll just tell them it's against my religious beliefs and is a graven image. They might try to steal my soul! :D
 
Walmart copied down your DL number and what brands/calibers of ammo you bought for a few years in MD (probably 2005 until this winter) because the state police asked them to. They recently stopped, I havent heard why.

Kharn
 
Bought a bunch of 550rd value packs of 22LR at the local Wally World about a month ago. All they asked for was the $$$.

Nail
 
The guy lives in Horseshoe Bend so I'm not sure which WM he went to, but he is obviously well past his 30's. It just struck me strange. I wasn't there and he didn't go into detail, but I got the impression that his information was put into the computer.
 
purchased 2 boxes of .223 last weekend from walmart and the old guy (70s) didnt say a word or ask for anything (fl). In fact when i tried to chat him up all i could get him to say was the total.
 
Walmart copied down your DL number and what brands/calibers of ammo you bought for a few years in MD (probably 2005 until this winter) because the state police asked them to. They recently stopped, I havent heard why.

Kharn
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Where in MD did they do this? It never happenned to me or any of my friends. (Not that I doubt for a minute that MD wouldn't pull something like that)
 
alligator94:
From what I personally experienced, it was definitely in Harford County, they started it trying to stop ammo from getting into B'more or being used in Aberdeen/Edgewood (they were undergoing a bit of bloods vs crips feuding at the time). I understand it to be in any county surrounding B'more.

I thought I'd heard it never solved any crimes...

Kharn
 
I was asked once, at Kmart I think. They said the computer wants to know "if this is for a rifle or handgun" I said do you have a button for none of your dam business. I was buying .22 LR
 
There used to be a federal law to log ammo sales back in the 1970's, but it's long gone. I've got the ammo log books from a big cop shop I used to work in, and it's fun to browse through them finding my own purchases and those of people I know.

My closest Wal-Mart sells no guns and very little ammo. If they tried to take down all that personal information from me I would just turn around and walk away.

I've done a great many gun transactions from both sides of the counter, and am very familiar with the 4473 form. The first, last, and only time I ever bought a gun at Wal-Mart the incompetent boobs put me through the most agonizing, bug-eyed-paranoid routine I've ever seen or heard of. Even after the jerk walked me out the front door before he handed me my new 10-22 rifle he stood guard at the door until I had driven out of the parking lot.

Never again.
 
What do I care, they already know its me making the purchase since I use my credit card, right?
 
Walmart has been asking to see a driver's license and what kind of gun you're going to use the ammo in for well over ten years. The archives are full of threads addressing this topic.
 
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