Most mass retailers' (and shippers') sales staff members have NO CLUE as to the pertinent laws and policies regarding their products--the firms assume that their corporate legal staff can clean up any mistakes made and that's just a "cost of doing business."
Most of the considerable sales lost by product and regulatory ignorance just aren't ever known to even middle management--why would a salesperson report such an incident, even if he or she were aware of it? And fine or "interesting" guns aren't a big part of corporate profits anyway.
All I can say is that in gun buying in such establishments, you have to do some "pre-season scouting"--after all, you're huntin' aren't you? Just not for fur or feathers or scales....
Go and talk to the sales staff and find "the guy" (who might just be a gal....) who knows the general kinds of guns you're interested in, and the mechanics of selling them to you, or is at least interested in doing it right.
For most of us that means starting with looking for gray hair and glasses!
Last edited by Mike A.; 08/03/17 01:25 PM.
