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NcongruNt wrote:

vallen wrote:Just buggin' me about the "is this for a handgun?" policy.

I'm at a loss as to what that question is supposed to accomplish.

You must be 21 or older to buy handgun ammunition (federal law). I'm obviously much older than 21, but occasionally a clerk at Academy will make a comment about it. It comes up on their registers.

- Jim

anygunanywhere wrote:When was the last timie you were in a Gibson's?

I've never heard of them.

- Jim

AEA wrote:I remember when some Banks in the US would give you a very nice hunting rifle (can't remember which one) if you opened a Certificate of Deposit with them

That has happened as recently as about 1990. It was in Bowling for Columbine.

But, yeah, it was much more common in the 1960s. I also remember firearms in the Sears and Penney's mail-order catalogs. With prices like $20 at the low end.

- Jim

Liberty wrote:From A business point of View I never understood Walmart. They seem to sell out of a lot, especially popular handgun load. It doesn't make good business sense to keep a stock levels at a level where running out is a common event.

I'm not sure about that. It costs money to maintain inventory. Wal-Mart probably has a trillion dollars in inventory.

If you're the only merchant in town that sells something, customers will be disappointed when you don't have it, but they'll have to come back another day. There's a chance that they'll buy some impulse item every time they come into the store.

- Jim

Liberty, some Ace Hardware stores in small towns sell ammo.

I remember when Marshall Field in downtown Chicago sold top-dollar hunting rifles and shotguns. Just a bit of trivia.

- Jim

Mithras61 wrote:I'd go fishing more often, but I can't figure out how to shoot 'em!

Saddam Hussein and his buddies used to use automatic rifles.

- Jim

DoubleJ wrote:

MegaWatt wrote:Sam Walton is probably rolling in his tomb![/b]

yeah, his gold plated, diamond encrusted tomb with a platinum sarcophagus.

Actually, Sam Walton was a modest man and his grave reflects that:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... id=6779534

Just to keep this on-topic, I quit buying ammo at Wal-Mart not because there was no one at the ammo counter, but because every time I went there I ended up behind people buying fishing licenses.

- Jim