Yup...The ones who go the other way don't stay in business long, until you get to luxury items.
Yup...The ones who go the other way don't stay in business long, until you get to luxury items.
Thought maybe it was because of the lawsuit but they won that.
Wal-Mart beats New York church on gun sales issue
http://www.examiner.com/article/wal-mart-beats-new-york-church-on-gun-sales-issue
Wal-Mart beats New York church on gun sales issue
http://www.examiner.com/article/wal-mart-beats-new-york-church-on-gun-sales-issue
Prices were good - many scopes are on sale for half off or better, too. The only store left around here that I could find with any inventory at all was Claremore; got what I wanted, but got screwed on an AR10 because one of the associates heard that I was going to pick it up for my brother, and they said they wouldn't sell it to me because "that was against their policy, and was a 'straw purchase'". Gotta love people enforcing the law without a badge, and without a clue.
Yea we sure don't want a bunch of laws broken because theres no badges or clues around.... ;/
Against their policy?!?!? It is against Federal Law. Talk about not having a clue....
Is it any different than buying it as a gift? Was he willingly buying it knowing that his brother couldn't legally possess firearms? I don't see how it's a strawman purchase. Sounded more like a gift purchase to me.
The point is, if it was to be a gift for a brother who could legally possess an AR-10, all he had to do was keep his mouth shut and buy the damned thing. If he buys it for a brother who cannot, by law, possess such a weapon, it is a strawman purchase. The clerk, however, doesn't know which of the above two scenarios is the factual one, so the would-be buyer has only himself to blame for blurting out that it was for someone else. The possibility that it was a BATF sting might have also influenced the clerk's decision (maybe they're testing me, to see if I follow the rules, he may have thought). In any event, the clerk did as he was taught. And, for the record, an FFL can cancel a firearms transaction if he has ANY reason to believe something is not right about it.
They actually only followed the law.
If he bought with intent to give it as a bona fide gift, that's fine. If he bought it with the intent that his brother would reimburse him for it, that's a straw purchase, regardless of whether his brother could legally own it or not.
Yup..
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