They won't. Their policy is if you have the cash, you're in their extranet--pay for play.
And even if Wal-Mart provides the data, you'd need to capture purchase-level data from EVERY retailer and wholesaler IN THE COUNTRY - a mammoth project that would dwarf the Y2K preparations in IT.
It would have the salutary effect of ending the H1B whingeing :o)
Wrong. I provide my name for the background check - but I can pay cash at the register once I have passed the background check. Paid cash for the last gun I bought back in 1999.
Wal-Mart will still track it, believe it or not--they just don't do it in a fashion that's obvious to you. (They have to worry about lawsuits and the like.)
Wal-Mart simply tracks it by filling out their federal fireams forms. Not live, not electronic. There is no tracking at the register.