Goofy Rules at the Base Exchange...

[Edmo]

I am retired USAF and live near a USAF base and as such I occasionally visit their base exchange (for those not familiar, it is a "Walmart-like" store on the base).

This afternoon I was shopping for a few things and ended up at their gun counter. I asked for a couple of boxes of 9mm FMJ range ammo and to have the clerk ring up my purchases.

When I unloaded my hand cart onto the counter he informed me if I were buying ammo I could not also purchase the bottle of whiskey I had also selected.

I thought this was strange since I had purchased a firearm from them about a year ago and they also sold me ammo for the gun at the time of purchase... Truly a potentionally more "dangerous" combo of items than whiskey and ammo.

He said, "Yes you can buy a gun and ammo, but not alcohol and ammo."

Sometimes it makes me scratch my head and wonder what they are thinking when they attempt to protect us from ourselves.

Edmo

 

[LVSteve]

Common sense isn't as common as it once was.

 

[STCM(SW)]

Buy the ammo at the exchange and then just stop at the class six store next.....

 

[jimbo728]

Do they sell lighter fluid with Zippos and deny you the sale if you grab a bottle of Knob with either?
I had to laugh at that one. Its unreal what "they" come up with.
I recently was told by a Walmart clerk that I could not purchase 9mm ball because the gal with me was under 21 and not a relative. I am 62. I won that one. I think when they saw me start wiping my feet they got the message. We live in a time with no real logic and it`s sad that freedom is always challenged.
Jim

 

[n0ukf]

I recently was told by a Walmart clerk that I could not purchase 9mm ball because the gal with me was under 21 and not a relative.

Why should it matter who is with you? You are making the purchase, not she. And unless they know you, how do they know she's not related?

 

[Edmo]

Buy the ammo at the exchange and then just stop at the class six store next.....

Yes, that was an option... Another is to buy the ammo at the gun counter and on the way out pick up another bottle of whiskey and purchase that at the front counter.

I just wish I could have been at the meeting where they all agreed on the "bullets and whiskey" combo was over some imaginary line of safety, yet it was safe to sell bullets and guns together.

If it were me I would sell bullets, guns, and whiskey together. The customer should be responsible enough to know which of those items go together.

Edmo

 

[walkin jack]

A lot of people can't seem grasp the concept that just because a rule is a rule doesn't make it a GOOD rule. I first became aware of this fact in the first grade. In the morning before the first bell rang we were allowed to assemble in the cafeteria and sit at the tables but they had signs up on every table and a couple of roving teachers to verbally remind us of the RULE:

"NO EATING IN THE CAFETERIA"

If you want to survive in this old world and keep your sanity you have to learn to laugh at stuff like that. I know, I know, sometimes it ain't funny but I try. I do try. Sigh.........

 

[Calaveras Slim]

I am retired USAF and live near a USAF base and as such I occasionally visit their base exchange (for those not familiar, it is a "Walmart-like" store on the base).

This afternoon I was shopping for a few things and ended up at their gun counter. I asked for a couple of boxes of 9mm FMJ range ammo and to have the clerk ring up my purchases.

When I unloaded my hand cart onto the counter he informed me if I were buying ammo I could not also purchase the bottle of whiskey I had also selected.

I thought this was strange since I had purchased a firearm from them about a year ago and they also sold me ammo for the gun at the time of purchase... Truly a potentionally more "dangerous" combo of items than whiskey and ammo.

He said, "Yes you can buy a gun and ammo, but not alcohol and ammo."

Sometimes it makes me scratch my head and wonder what they are thinking when they attempt to protect us from ourselves.

Edmo

At least you live where they have a PX/BX where they sell ammo/guns.

Up in San Antonio, they have 3 major military bases, none of which sell guns/ammo.

 

[Brian41]

That does seem to be a pretty silly rule but was in the AF and know about some of those.
There is a store north of here that sells gas, liquor, guns, ammo, food and even has an outfitter business. My brother said once if they only had hookers out front it'd be a one stop shop.

 

[max]

The military invented "goofy rules".

 

[amazingflapjack]

I would speculate that this is an attempt to address the 22 military/veteran suicides per day that we hear about. (?)

 

[Frank237]

My favorite Military Base rule...

I occasionally fish at the Earle Naval Depot jetty in south Jersey. It is a jetty that goes out into the Atlantic for over TWO miles. It is nothing but rocks and concrete surrounded by WATER.

I was smoking a cigar well over a mile out and one of the Guards had a fit. I politely complied as I AM a visitor to HIS Base. but I did ask him... "What do you think I am going to burn out here?"

Yes it once WAS an ammunition depot, etc, etc.

But really?

 

[Rastoff]

We have a gun range on Edwards yet, it's a felony to bring a gun onto a military installation. Hmmm...

 

[vt_shooter]

I wish the BX had a no "condoms and whiskey" rule back in my AF days. No explanation from me.

 

[BigBoy99]

I gave up going the BX years ago because the employees were not "English as the first language" individuals. One could not understand what they were saying!

 

[Iggy]

As far as I know, it is still illegal to shoot out the spokes of moving stage coach wheels from the barracks windows on former Ft. D.A. Russell, now F.E.Warren AFB.

 

[H Richard]

I'm guessing it has been rescinded, but in 1903 it was illegal to drive an automobile without a "good man" running in advance of the auto to warn people of it's coming.

 

[Mainsail]

Everything AAFES touches turns to poop. They couldn't even run the burger king properly- and burger king is bad enough.

I could write dozens of posts, paragraphs long, about all the screwball stuff I witnessed at the BX during and after my 20, but suffice to say, they are NOT a benefit by any means.

They had a slogan for a while: "Part of your benefits, part of your life!"

I never failed to use that against them; "How does paying more here than at walmart benefit me?"

The commissary is about the only retirement benefit left, and even they get the SUCK meter pegged from time to time.

 

[shouldazagged]

That BX rule reminds me of a super-short sketch on "Robot Chicken". A guy is standing in front of two doors. The one on the left says "No Entrance". The one on the right says "Use Other Door".

 

[LVSteve]

That BX rule reminds me of a super-short sketch on "Robot Chicken". A guy is standing in front of two doors. The one on the left says "No Entrance". The one on the right says "Use Other Door".

Just like those boxes marked "Instructions to open, inside".