I've bought ammo there before without issue and several other Wal-Marts with no problem. I open-carry a LC9 in a DeSantis belt holster. I wanted 3 boxes of Tula 7.62 and the girl they sent back said she didn't know the rules or laws for selling ammo and waited for another person. He came back and she told him she didn't know the rules and he went to explain it and she interrupted him saying she didn't care to know and wanted to go smoke. Anyway, he gets the boxes and takes them up front (it was midnight and they only had two lanes open). I put the other stuff I want to buy on the counter and she doesn't ring me up. They (the cashier and the guy that brought the ammo up) just stood there like they were waiting for God to instruct them on what to do next. Well, 'God' showed up but her name is Loretta and she is the assistant manager. She says I can't have a gun in here unless I'm a cop. She asked if I'm a cop, I said no. I told her Wal-Mart policy is to follow local laws and that I had a permit so I didn't need to be a cop. She then asked if she could see the permit, I said no. She asked why and I told her that if I went around showing that to everyone that asked that I would have to put it on a necklace. I then explained that I didn't feel comfortable showing her the permit because it had my home address on it and I didn't want just anyone knowing that. Then she went on a rant about how she has to protect all the unarmed people in the store and had to know if I was licensed. I explained that if she would show me her driver's license, I would show her my permit. She gave me a blank stare so I took that as a no. I told her I no more wanted her to know my address then she wanted me to know hers. Again she rants about how she has a duty to protect the people in the store. I explain to her that permit or not, if I intended to harm anyone, it wouldn't matter if she seen the permit. I don't think she understood that. She then told me that I should look at it from her point-of-view. What was she to think about someone carrying a gun and buying ammo. I told her that the gun was loaded and the ammo I was buying won't fit my gun and that if I wanted the ammo to cause harm that I would have simply broken the glass and taken it. So, now we are talking in circles and she says that if I won't show her the permit, she won't let me buy the ammo. So I said never-mind, I won't buy anything. I left the store. I should add that the ignorant smoker that came back first was waiting up there and watched the whole time. I don't think she wanted to smoke, I think she just ran to 'tell' on me for having a gun.
I called customer care and explained what happened. The CC rep told me the policy allowed for them to remove people that were 'not behaving' so that no one would be concerned and allowed for managers to remove people from the store that were 'offending' others by having the gun on display. I asked if it would be reasonable to 'remove' a gay couple that was holding hands just because someone took offense to it. Of course she said no. So I explained to her that it wasn't really any different that I was singled out like that. We talked a bit more and she was surprised to learn that the only reason she wouldn't sell me the ammo is because I wouldn't show my permit. She didn't seem to understand that was the only reason until I said, "If she had asked for my ID to confirm my age since ammo is age-restricted, I would have shown it to her." I explained that it seemed like Loretta had an agenda, perhaps she is anti-gun, and used her authority to prevent me from buying ammo and the question of my age never came up, which is the only restriction that should have been in question.
I don't understand why these people just don't get it. If someone has ill-intent, that ill-intent will exist rather or not you know that person legally possesses a gun. I pointed out to the CC rep that if Loretta had thought me to be a threat, that she wouldn't have confronted me and would instead call the police so that tells me she had an agenda. Maybe Loretta thinks that if she found I had the gun illegally, that I would be shamed into not killing everyone that seen me. The CC rep is putting a complaint in at the store so we'll see what comes of it.
I called customer care and explained what happened. The CC rep told me the policy allowed for them to remove people that were 'not behaving' so that no one would be concerned and allowed for managers to remove people from the store that were 'offending' others by having the gun on display. I asked if it would be reasonable to 'remove' a gay couple that was holding hands just because someone took offense to it. Of course she said no. So I explained to her that it wasn't really any different that I was singled out like that. We talked a bit more and she was surprised to learn that the only reason she wouldn't sell me the ammo is because I wouldn't show my permit. She didn't seem to understand that was the only reason until I said, "If she had asked for my ID to confirm my age since ammo is age-restricted, I would have shown it to her." I explained that it seemed like Loretta had an agenda, perhaps she is anti-gun, and used her authority to prevent me from buying ammo and the question of my age never came up, which is the only restriction that should have been in question.
I don't understand why these people just don't get it. If someone has ill-intent, that ill-intent will exist rather or not you know that person legally possesses a gun. I pointed out to the CC rep that if Loretta had thought me to be a threat, that she wouldn't have confronted me and would instead call the police so that tells me she had an agenda. Maybe Loretta thinks that if she found I had the gun illegally, that I would be shamed into not killing everyone that seen me. The CC rep is putting a complaint in at the store so we'll see what comes of it.
