Gun sales stop at state Wal-Marts - Investigation found chain sold firearms to convicted felons

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 5, 2003 | Robert Salladay

[tet68]

Jeez, you have to be fingerprinted?
What's next? "sir I see you want to purchase a firearm,
please roll up your sleeve while we implant this identifier
and locator transmitter."

California !!!!!

[Cold Heat]

Actually, this has to do with California BS. Not the federal laws. They were found in violation of California's numerous stumbling blocks to buying a gun.

[PatrioticAmerican]

They also sell to illegal aliens, which is also against the law. I have personally witnessed Mexicans using only Mexican IDs buy guns at Wal-Mart. This happened three times. Of course, I reported this three times, but no onee really gives a damn.

[honeygrl]

The 2 Wal-Marts I've worked for in the past were also very reluctant to fire employees who deserve it. I remember an employee in the same dept. as me getting angry at a customer, throwing an object at him (it was a soft dog toy), and then calling the guy's girlfriend a b!tch. That was several years ago. Last time I went to Wal-Mart the man still worked there.

[an amused spectator]

The California AD, Lockyer, is very anti gun. I am sure he has a larger agenda than just stopping gun sales at Wal-Mart. I would guess the anti gun crowd wants to stop gun sales at all Wal-Marts nation wide.

You have to remember that CA "attorney general" Lockyer advocates male rape of CA state prisoners. The Cato Institute calls Lockyer "an authoritarian thug".

I would call resisting arrest in California an act of self-defense.

[an amused spectator]

That's a little misleading to say that ALL Wall-Mart stores were doing this as they only went to six of them. But still it doesn't sound like Wall-Mart is running a very tight ship. Well unless you're trying to unionize the workforce.

I've been saying for years on this forum that every American is a criminal law-breaker - we just haven't been arrested and charged yet.

I believe that the authoritarian thug Lockyer has proved my point.

[an amused spectator]

It's the gun laws that are the systematic problem. And there's so many of them (especially in Kalifornia) that it's virtually impossible for there not to be a violation of sort.

Exactly. You have to remember that Lockyer is the worst sort of official scum (see above link about Lockyer's ideas for running a state "corrections" system.).

I think the sheer number of violations proves only that the lawnuts in California have gone WAYYYYY overboard, and it might be time for a regime change there.

[lelio]

that every American is a criminal law-breaker - we just haven't been arrested and charged yet.
Agree 110%. The laws are there so that if you anger the wrong person they can throw the book at you. Play nice and bow your head at the judge and you'll get a lighter sentence.
Did you count the number of offenses per gun transaction? There's probably 10 different laws Wal-Mart broke in selling one gun. How is anyone supposed to abide by all of them and tell all their clerks to do so? You can't, and the state mostly lets you slide. Until you don't pony up the Lockyer ReElection Fund bribes that is.
Other than this being despicable, it puts the populace constanly on guard wondering if what they are doing is wrong somehow. Who is going to stick their neck out when they are wondering if they'll get slapped with the "Can't do X on Tuesday" law secretly enacted?
I never really thought about that last point till I heard an interview with the author of a Sports Illustrated piece on Iraq's torture of Olympic athletes. He said that parents would pull their kids out of soccer if they showed themselves to be above the norm, as they didn't want a Baath party person to see them and then force them to play for the country team, and possibly get killed.
I'm not saying that our situation is comparable to Iraq's, but how much creativitity and individual rights are being crushed as people are unsure of their status as citizens?