Bass Pro gun purchase

[BryanDP]

Please don't get mad at the employees. I worked at a Cabela's in Olympia, WA, for about three years. The big box stores have their own rules. For example, here in OK, a CPL makes the BGC obsolete, but places like Academy will still run it.

I didn't get mad at them. There was a moment of downtime while the employee and I were just standing there waiting for the great and powerful Oz to tape my gun shut that I asked him if he had worked at a gun counter before. He had not so I explained to him all the steps that Bass Pro added to the process.

These stores are not kneeling to ATF, etc. Their concern is all the lawsuits that can be filed against them for any reason. There are folks that are constantly looking for a reason to make a fuss about anything, and the sight of a non-employee carrying a firearm, even in a box, is just disturbing to witness. Normal gun stores do not have that high potential. It's just part of life. If the store has something I want to buy, I can live with a little inconvenience without getting offended.

Yet they handed me my purchase on the second floor and I carried it to the front door where I could have instead of leaving grabbed a cart and continued shopping (except that they took so long the store was now about to close.) If they are afraid of selling guns they probably shouldn't be doing it. I can't really justify supporting anyone who makes me buying a gun more difficult than it already is by law.

I think it depends on the store honestly. I bought a shotgun at a BPS in Texas (out of state) and they rang it up and stuck it in my cart cause I had other shopping to do. I carried it around for about another 45 minutes in the store.

Maybe. All the extra steps sure seemed to be corporate policy, though, including the Bass Pro website that asked questions to complete the 4473.

 

[Snapshot2022]

I didn't get mad at them. There was a moment of downtime while the employee and I were just standing there waiting for the great and powerful Oz to tape my gun shut that I asked him if he had worked at a gun counter before. He had not so I explained to him all the steps that Bass Pro added to the process.



Yet they handed me my purchase on the second floor and I carried it to the front door where I could have instead of leaving grabbed a cart and continued shopping (except that they took so long the store was now about to close.) If they are afraid of selling guns they probably shouldn't be doing it. I can't really justify supporting anyone who makes me buying a gun more difficult than it already is by law.



Maybe. All the extra steps sure seemed to be corporate policy, though, including the Bass Pro website that asked questions to complete the 4473.

I have bought a lot of both rifles ARs AKs and handguns and i will not take any type of BS from Bass Pro or any firearm store if i find there policies are over bearing i will take my firearm buying to another store that has good buying policies.

What i would have done at both the Bass Pro and Academy stores is just walk out.

 

[CutBaitNBlowSh*tUp4ALivin]

could not be sold for a year per the forms I had just filled out to buy it.

I don't think that's what that means

 

[Hooper]

I don't think that's what that means

Bet they would put you in BP Jail if you sold it. Make you clean out the Fish tanks and stuff.

Someday I am going to go fishing in there, wouldn't that be a blast to catch a Pristine Blue Cat that has been tank raised.

 

[Shinneryfarmer]

Bet they would put you in BP Jail if you sold it. Make you clean out the Fish tanks and stuff.

Someday I am going to go fishing in there, wouldn't that be a blast to catch a Pristine Blue Cat that has been tank raised.

What??? You haven't been fishing in those tanks yet? Maybe that's why people were staring and pointing at me. They must overfeed them cause fishing sucked.

 

[BryanDP]

I have bought a lot of both rifles ARs AKs and handguns and i will not take any type of BS from Bass Pro or any firearm store if i find there policies are over bearing i will take my firearm buying to another store that has good buying policies.

What i would have done at both the Bass Pro and Academy stores is just walk out.

This was my first time buying a gun there and I only went because I had a substantial gift card. It was probably the first time I had been in the store in at least seven or eight years and I don't imagine I'll have any need to go there in the future.

I don't think that's what that means

I don't recall the exact verbiage but it was something to the effect of "I attest that I will not sell this firearm for a period of one year" and required me to sign or initial it.

What do you think that meant?

 

[CutBaitNBlowSh*tUp4ALivin]

I don't recall the exact verbiage but it was something to the effect of "I attest that I will not sell this firearm for a period of one year" and required me to sign or initial it.

What do you think that meant?

Well that's what I was trying to figure out actually, was this the question?


Do you intend to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm listed on this form and any continuation sheet(s) in furtherance of any felony or other offense punishable by imprisonment for a term of more than one year, a Federal crime of terrorism, or a drug trafficking offense?

 

[BryanDP]

Well that's what I was trying to figure out actually, was this the question?


Do you intend to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm listed on this form and any continuation sheet(s) in furtherance of any felony or other offense punishable by imprisonment for a term of more than one year, a Federal crime of terrorism, or a drug trafficking offense?

No, that one was on there too but there was a question specifically regarding intending to sell the firearm within a year. Bass Pro seems to have their own proprietary software program that prompts employees through he selling process, asks questions of the applicant/buyer and completes the 4473 in the background. As the question does not appear on a 4473 I suspect it's one that they added on, probably to dissuade straw purchases or for some other reason their lawyers came up with.

 

[CutBaitNBlowSh*tUp4ALivin]

No, that one was on there too but there was a question specifically regarding intending to sell the firearm within a year. Bass Pro seems to have their own proprietary software program that prompts employees through he selling process, asks questions of the applicant/buyer and completes the 4473 in the background. As the question does not appear on a 4473 I suspect it's one that they added on, probably to dissuade straw purchases or for some other reason their lawyers came up with.

Thanks for correcting me, now I'm definitely curious. I don't think I've ever done more than window shop at their gun counters