.38SuperMan,
You are getting worked up over nothing. It sounds like you have not brought ammunition for a long time.
As previously comment rifle ammunition and pistol ammunition have different age requirements to be legally purchased. Cabelas and a Farm Store I buy a lot of ammunition from both have a computer program that requires numbers in the date of birth to be entered for the transaction to be completed. Getting all worked up and busting your chest buttons and giving the poor lady at the checkout a hard time isn’t going to change the fact that numbers for the date of birth and a telephone number have to be entered into the computer cash register.
On-line purchases of ammunition require d.o.b. and telephone number to be entered to complete the transaction.
I am not aware of any Federal or Kansas State Law that requires me to give a truthful answer for my d.o.b. and telephone number so I give one I make up.* I have not been asked for my telephone number but if so I would do the same thing. With the current ammunition shortage I certainly would not let that question stop me from buying ammunition.
Heck if you want to worry about your identity being collected don’t shop at a big store like Walmart. Not only do they know your personal information such as address, d.o.b., race, sex but they also have a photograph of you. Think about why they have cameras at every register.
*disclaimer - Other States have laws that require truthful answer to d.o.b. to buy ammunition. Kansas isn’t one of them.
You are getting worked up over nothing. It sounds like you have not brought ammunition for a long time.
As previously comment rifle ammunition and pistol ammunition have different age requirements to be legally purchased. Cabelas and a Farm Store I buy a lot of ammunition from both have a computer program that requires numbers in the date of birth to be entered for the transaction to be completed. Getting all worked up and busting your chest buttons and giving the poor lady at the checkout a hard time isn’t going to change the fact that numbers for the date of birth and a telephone number have to be entered into the computer cash register.
On-line purchases of ammunition require d.o.b. and telephone number to be entered to complete the transaction.
I am not aware of any Federal or Kansas State Law that requires me to give a truthful answer for my d.o.b. and telephone number so I give one I make up.* I have not been asked for my telephone number but if so I would do the same thing. With the current ammunition shortage I certainly would not let that question stop me from buying ammunition.
Heck if you want to worry about your identity being collected don’t shop at a big store like Walmart. Not only do they know your personal information such as address, d.o.b., race, sex but they also have a photograph of you. Think about why they have cameras at every register.
*disclaimer - Other States have laws that require truthful answer to d.o.b. to buy ammunition. Kansas isn’t one of them.
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They of course want to be your best bud, grab a beer, and will promise the world. Ok, that's fine. I was just kinda browsing and the person asked me: my name, my occupation, budget, what I liked, how I spend my free time...I 'get it' that they are qualifying a sale and trying to establish rapport, but I was very upfront that my wife and I were just browsing as I hadn't seen new models in person. The sales rep. was persistent, which is good, but I reiterated that, really, I am just getting a sense of what I want, and they dived into the personal questions again and again... and so forth. I finally said 'time out', let's step back a moment. I am being upfront that I am just browsing and it is too early in the sales cycle to be 'best friends'. The reaction...well it was something. No issues the rest of the time. 
Also, it was a hard pass on the Audi.
Larry
