Try that “too much gun” with the 11 year old girl who dropped two Messicans dumb enough to break into the home of a girl skeet champion. What happened?
Think “Pull”!
Ping
What loads you shoot make a noticeable difference.
Also if you mod it with a stock that can help reduce the feel of the recoil, that makes a big difference.
If she was small it could easily be too much for her. It would be too much for some guys. If control sucks because the load is very hot and the recoil is big, it makes people not want to use it. Or over-anticipate the trigger pull and recoil.
Assuming she were buying the gun for someone else, what does the retail jockey care? It’s not like the ATFs gonna come down on them for something they couldn’t know. Something nobody possibly could know.
Or maybe the feds to come down on them. “Please hand over your security tapes. An informant says you sold something to an appropriate adult who knows other people and is physically capable of handing said product to undesirables.”
I wonder why people in genrral comply with most laws. Fear, I guess. But the government barely cracks the surface now. It could be like prohibition all over again for an awful lot if red tape had we the guts.
I had an old beater car that had 4 different tire widths. (Junkyard stuff I ended up with from a couple of cars) They refused to sell me 4 tires all the same size, only the exact size that was on each wheel. I asked to see the manager, but he was just as stupid as the other guy.
There were about 3 or 4 other people waiting in line, and I asked them if they really wanted someone this stupid working on THEIR car. Two of them followed me out.
At 10 or 12 foot range, the pattern should open up to 2 or 3 inches.
A load of #4s, and the noise of racking it will notify the Bad Guy he is about to have his future modified...
Pretty bizarre behavior by the clerk, if true.
I could understand a knowledgeable gun store owner making alternative suggestions if he felt that a particular weapon might not be suitable for a particular customer. But to refuse to sell the weapon, and threaten to sic the FBI on a customer? That’s nuttiness. You don’t even need a permit to own a shotgun in Indiana.
Of course, it’s also possible Wal-Mart has this as a policy because of fears of the gun control crowd suing them over a straw man purchase. That doesn’t get the clerk off the hook in my book, but it would mean that he was following company procedure in addition to being a crank.
The clerk probably took a 3 hour mandatory gun sales course where they teach the most common tricks used in an illegal purchase.
If you're Walmart, it's heads they win, tails you lose in this drama.
Walmart won't comment because whatever it says will be twisted and tortured and thrown back in its face when a lawsuit is filed.
And if it was an illegal purchase, Walmart would have faced lawsuits from any victims injured or terrorized by the shotgun.
1. He is a $7.25 an hour store clerk.
2. It is not any of his business what you want it for
3. You should have told him to keep his opinions to himself and to sell you the gun or he would not have his $7.25 an hour job.
Sounds fake...
As in Fast and Furious Straw Man purchase fake.
Weird narrative to start the 2A grabbing with before 2013 but we’ll see...
I would just go somewhere else and then mail the receipt to his boss showing him how much money his employee turned away.
I think I probably would have said “Go ahead and call the FBI - we’ll wait right here” Threaten them right back. Stand your ground.
Translation: “I am saving up to buy this gun myself. I’m going to give myself a discount because its been on display a while. I only need 2 more paychecks. And you are not going to buy it now and mess up my plans, you silly broad.”
Herein lies the problem. Why is a Shotgun “registered” in her name? I remember growing up in the 50’s and 60’s when we were truly a Free People.
A memorable Bumper Sticker from my youth, “First Registration, Then Confiscation”.
When you become the biggest benefactor of Free Trade with Communist China....that Communism is gonna rub off on you eventually.
WalMart needs to be called MaoMart now
It sounds to me like she said the ‘magic words’ that indicate that it was a straw purchase. The clerk then responded by keeping himself out of prison.
Government stings look just like this. If you are purchasing a firearm as a present (perfectly legal) DO NOT tell the clerk. If you are accompanying your spouse to purchase a firearm, do not be making a lot of statements about which one to purchase.
Dealers are required to infer a straw sale and then refuse to sell.
That is the very reason for a weapon in the first place. Doh.