If you buy a new gun at Academy in Oklahoma, a store employee has to carry the boxed gun in their hands out the door from the gun bar. If you bring the gun back for any reason, they have to escort you from the door to the gun bar. Walmart used to do the same thing back in the 1990's when I bought two new guns there then. I bought a new Ruger American ranch 5.56 NATO rifle not long ago and I had to bring it to Academy for factory warranty repair shipping and handling last two months and just got it back home yesterday. The bolt operation was very sticky. Rounds difficult to chamber and extract. I got the baby escort treatment at Academy.
Big retail corporations have screwy notions about guns and gun owners. They might be worried about somebody shoplifting a gun in a big store. Big stores and big businesses have government bureaucracy mindedness. I hate it at Walmarts when they ask to see my receipt at the door too. They don't do that in ordinary regional chain supermarkets. Some big-box electronic store chains really act like its airport security when the customer leaves the store with something. It makes the shopping experience seem less pleasant when store employees act like TSO agents. This probably makes online shopping seem like an attractive alternative these days.
No mom-and-pop gun store I know of escorts people in and out with guns like kids. I generally like dealing with a LGS for firearms transactions anyway. Mom-and-pops are generally more friendly.
Big retail corporations have screwy notions about guns and gun owners. They might be worried about somebody shoplifting a gun in a big store. Big stores and big businesses have government bureaucracy mindedness. I hate it at Walmarts when they ask to see my receipt at the door too. They don't do that in ordinary regional chain supermarkets. Some big-box electronic store chains really act like its airport security when the customer leaves the store with something. It makes the shopping experience seem less pleasant when store employees act like TSO agents. This probably makes online shopping seem like an attractive alternative these days.
No mom-and-pop gun store I know of escorts people in and out with guns like kids. I generally like dealing with a LGS for firearms transactions anyway. Mom-and-pops are generally more friendly.
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