Bass Pro gun purchase

[Snapshot2022]

Bass Pro should take Dong's owner David's advice he gave to Dick's when there owner Dick Stack started pushing his own store rules like no sales of firearms or Ammo. to anyone not 21, his advice Dick's should just sell jock straps and let Dong's sell firearems and Ammo.

Bass Pro needs to do about the same just sell fish hooks the rest of the high priced other junk they have and let the other Oklahoma firearm stores sell it.

Myself if they had handed me that bunch of "Democrat" wording i would have pitched it on their floor and walked out, i have only been in their crappy junk store once and once was enough.

 

[trekrok]

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.

Taping the box shut out of my sight would bug me more than all the other crap. They have zero trust in us, why should we trust them?

 

[BobbyV]

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.

Cabela's still ran it on me earlier this year when I went to pick up a rifle.

 

[bigred1]

I bought a shotgun at Walmart a few years back. Got a really nice price on it so I didn't mind the employee carrying it for me......i was busy doing cartwheels out the door anyway.

 

[BobbyV]

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

That's just them using the electronic version of the 4473. Many FFLs do that.

 

[Dorkus]

I bought a shotgun at Walmart a few years back. Got a really nice price on it so I didn't mind the employee carrying it for me......i was busy doing cartwheels out the door anyway.

The last gun I bought at Walmart was in Elk City on my way to New Mexico. It was a ML for super cheap.

Something about that purchase caused my credit card to be frozen and I had to deal with that during the trip. I guess Visa thought a OKC guy in Elk trying to by a gun is fraud.

 

[PewPew762]

I recently decided I wanted some sort of cheapish .22 LR revolver with a swingout cylinder to replace the Ruger Bearcat I have which annoys me to no end every time I have to load it. I also had three $25 Bass Pro gift cards so I went by to see what they had. Everything in the .22 pistol case was not swingout cylinder so I was about to leave when one of the guys asked if I needed help. I mentioned what I was looking for but didn't see it. He took me down to the used guns section and showed me a Diamondback Sidekick. It was "used" only because it was stock transferred from another store. No individual had ever owned it so it was new in the box. It had nine shots and a swing out cylinder so it was just what I needed. I'd never heard of it but I figure I was getting $75 off and how could you really screw up a .22 revolver anyway. It also came with a .22 mag cylinder which is nice though not something I really need.

When I went to check out there were already transactions going on the two laptops they had designated for this purpose. For those guys it was taking forever to get a "proceed" so it took me like 20 minutes before I could even get on the computer. The last gun I bought was a while back and still on the paper forms so this was a bit new to me. I'm pretty techy but found standing at a waist level counter typing on someone else's laptop to be a bit awkward. Plus, I had just gotten glasses without bifocals (a mistake I have since corrected0 so I was having a bit of trouble seeing. I got through it though and got "proceed" in like 10 seconds. The guy was kind of shocked actually. I just laughed and said "they know me well over there."

The guy that had been working with me at the counter went over all my information meticulously, taking almost as long to verify everything as I had spent filling out the online forms. Then he had another guy come over who did the same thing. It was honestly pretty ridiculous but it got worse. After I was "approved" at the counter, I paid. The guy then, without even telling me what he was doing, takes the gun into the back. Apparently this was for yet a third person (the "safe master" I think they called him) to sign off on the whole thing.

While waiting for that step I asked the young guy that had been helping me if he knew how many steps that Bass Pro added to the process. He assured me that everything they had done was required by the ATF in order to buy a weapon.

Finally my gun came from out of the back taped shut which kind of weirded me out. I'd like to have checked inside the box before leaving but when I suggested that the guy seemed genuinely scared of what repercussion might occur if I were to do that so I just did what I was told and left. I was surprised they let me carry it out the front door myself.

All in all it took me like an hour and fifteen minutes to buy one .22 revolver:

• 5 minutes to get help at the .22 pistol counter
• 5 minutes to walk down the length of the counter, see the gun and decide to buy it
• 20 minutes to get on a computer to start the paperwork
• 10 minutes or less for me to complete the paperwork
• 35 minutes of their fiddling around AFTER the NICS came back approved

It's probably not something I will be doing again.

Bass Pro is not worth buying from anymore,

 

[BryanDP]

Taping the box shut out of my sight would bug me more than all the other crap. They have zero trust in us, why should we trust them?

And the guy had it in the back out of my sight for quite a while. He was apparently doing the final check to make sure it was the right gun (after three employees had checked things out front) but what if he had gotten it wrong and taped the wrong gone in the right box? They were working like four deals at once so something like that definitely could have happened.

That's just them using the electronic version of the 4473. Many FFLs do that.

This one was branded Bass Pro throughout, gave prompts to the Bass Pro employees such as having multiple people verify things and asked questions that aren't on a 4473. I doubt any other FFLs do all that.

Bass Pro is not worth buying from anymore,

Agree. I'd have never been in there except to finally spend a probably 10 year old gift card.

 

[1Mudman]

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.

I have understood why they get so mad when I open a can of Sponge Bait and try to fish. They call security every time. I mean ASAP!