Walmart Escort Out

[shotgun693]

A couple of years ago I bought a rifle at Walmart. The manager had come to escort me out and carry my gun outside. I asked him if this was SOP and he said yes. I laughed and told him I'm a retired Cop and was carrying a gun. He laughed.
Last year I bought a gun at Dick's and went through exactly the same thing. This guy laughed too.

 

[chud333]

Yes at about all of the big chains that sell firearms this
is SOP now.
Doesn't bother me as i seldom buy firearms at these places
and they are just covering their butts.
It is funny though when you are carrying concealed into
the store and have to have a boxed gun escorted out.





Chuck

 

[Comrad]

Did it make you feel like a big game hunter on safari with a gun bearer?

Next time insist he address you as Bwana.

 

[EugeneNine]

I bought my wife some nice colored pencils at Hobby Lobby and had to be escorted to the register. I was going to make a joke about them must be assault pencils.

 

[Arik]

My friend bought a Remington 700 at Dicks and had to be escorted. Neither of us cared. Wanna carry my purchase? Fine!!!

 

[Jack Flash]

You get the same treatment at Cabelas.

 

[Whitwabit]

Bought a pistol at Bass Pro Shop and salesman carried it to the register .. Said thanks shook my hand and left .. girl rang it up on my charge card and out the door I went bought 400 rounds of ammo at the same time I carried the ammo the salesman the gun ..

At Big R they carry the gun to the register also but ammo they lock in a ammo box and you carry to the front where its unlocked and rang up for you to pay ..

No guns and not much ammo at the Walmarts here ..

 

[DWalt]

In another posting, I related a similar escort to my car for a gun purchased at Academy.

 

[Kevin J.]

When I read the post title I though it meant that Walmart no longer had escorts

 

[LVSteve]

I find that walking you out" thing pretty hilarious having walked the length of several casinos with firearms bought at gunshows.

 

[Harkrader]

Years ago an assistant mgr at Walmart scolded me for wanting to buy .22LR ammo to take our children shooting. That was the last time I bought ANY sporting goods from Walmart.

Gander Mountain: Don't know what their policy is these days, but some years ago they also walked a gun buyer or someone who had just claimed their gun from the gunsmith, to the door, delivering the gun outside.
I'll still buy from them, but they are loooow on my list.

 

[TTSH]

You get the same treatment at Cabelas.

Yep. And don't forget the El Cheapo plastic trigger lock put on the gun by some utterly clueless clerk and then 4 miles of tape wrapped around the box to make it look like a mummy.

 

[A-37]

Did it make you feel like a big game hunter on safari with a gun bearer?

Next time insist he address you as Bwana.

That comment rang a bell:

Bob Hope movie: Call Me Bwana

Call Me Bwana (1963) - IMDb

 

[hoc9sw]

The stores have their rules, and the employees must follow them. If I get the firearm at a good price, I have no complaints that they carry it to my car for me. At least I don't feel like I need to tip them like the cart kids at the base exchange.

 

[M29since14]

Chuck, it's not a serious effort at "covering their butts," my friend. It's just ridiculous and ineffective, and maybe a little insulting, as far as I can tell.

 

[6518John]

Did it make you feel like a big game hunter on safari with a gun bearer?

Next time insist he address you as Bwana.

I can't stop laughing at this. I envision slapping on a Pilth Helmet, beating the surprised clerk with an elephant tail crop, and screaming "bearer load the Holland & Holland with some .458's and let's drive those lions!" (While pointing at the cart corral).


By the way, what do they think you are going to do, go out, load it up, and come back in and rob the till?

 

[venomballistics]

I got the wife a Henry big boy in 357 from Cabellas just outside Kerney
The walk seemed to add something to the occasion in the given context.
Kinda like a graduation ceremony "Congratulations, you've just invoked the 2A"

 

[growr]

Wish I could get them to do that when I am out hunting!!!

Randy

 

[DeathGrip]

When I read the post title I though it meant that Walmart no longer had escorts

Location Location location and a little luck. Remember you're still shopping at Walmart.

 

[Texas Star]

That comment rang a bell:

Bob Hope movie: Call Me Bwana

Call Me Bwana (1963) - IMDb

Now that I think about it, the best safari-set movies seldom had gunbearers. I think, Safari (1957) did, but not, Out of Africa (1987 or 88) and, King Solomon's Mines (1950) and, Watusi (about 1963) (sic; should be Watutsi).

I think you can find some on YouTube and certainly on DVD. I bought, Safari last year, having seen it in the theater when it came out. I think I was 12. Already knew what a Sten gun was and the other guns in the film. But watch that movie carefully, and the white hunter's Sten changes from a MK II to a MK III in some scenes! And the .30-30 that the heroine used was a bit of a surprise in Kenya. But Robert C. Ruark noted his white hunter hero in, Something of Value had been given a Marlin rifle as a tip by an American client. Winchester and Marlin arms found their way there. But most rifles were the expected British safari sort. The man-eater lion was pretty scary, but not at the level of the two in, The Ghost and the Darkness.