If an Academy employee at the front door sees me walk in with a long gun box clearly marked RUGER, he will ask me what's in the box. I will say a gun that has to be returned to the factory under warranty. Then he will start to question me about what's wrong with the gun. A bunch of questions. Then finally he will insist he has to carry the box to the gun bar. I walk in and out of Academy all the time with my handgun concealed in my fanny pack and nobody there says a damm thing about that. If it is something that looks like a gun box to them, it's a different story. I wonder what Academy might say if I walked into the store with something that looked like a shoe box with NIKE on it.
Ruger also gives the customer the option of getting prepaid shipping label to ship a gun back for warranty work via Fed Ex. From now on, I will use the Fed Ex option to send guns back for repairs. Taking the gun to Academy is rather a hassle.
Too many lawyers at the corporate meetings. Their fear of getting sued has led to ridiculous many policies.
America the Land of the Scared of Their Own Shadow
We live in a corporate coward culture. Lawyers and doctors get this kind of indoctrination in our anti-gun commie-lib colleges and universities. Yes, fear of sue-happy people.