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The kids buying their first gun or the dad who ran out and needs a box to fill a mag to protect his kids in the middle of the night...lets just say I usually happen to find one for them.

Not feeding this frenzy of lies and manipulation.

I am not hoarding anything but I do try to keep a box or two back for those really in need and who are good customers and polite human beings

The last place I bought ammo from, I called ahead. I just needed some 17 hmr in 20 grains. Well, they had one box so I went to get it. When I got there the ammo shelves were completely bare but they did indeed take me to "the back room" where they had some ammo. Quite abit of 9mm from what I remember but I didn't need any.

Smallish midwestern chain store. I'm not sure why the back room is necessary?

I don't do that. I think that is kind of shady. But I usually put back a box or two from each truck for my own use and if someone comes in and honestly needs it i will a lot of times hand them the one I was going to buy

But the other side of it is that a big pile of 9mm out there would cause a riot lol

Best post thus far.

Good point. 🤣

At the gun store I go-to about once a week or so, he gets a little I now and then, But he's got a lot of old guys, I'm talking 80-90 years. Bringing in guns and ammo ect, so there wives don't have to worry about it when they pass. Iv bout 3 guns from him this year and traded a few. A little bit of ammo too.

Agreed

Well said.

ATTENTION AMMO SHOPPERS
Ammo sales to public will commence on Monday of the last week of each month. We will be rationing it to 2 boxes per caliber. Otherwise it is available to firearm purchasing customers until above announced time.
Have a great day!

You’ll sell all the ammo available and some more firearms as well. Make a lot of new customers knowing you’re looking out for them.

That's a fugging understatement if there ever was one.

Yes but the software we have works as a replenishing system. I only get one on the truck for every one i sell.

So i need to put stuff out if i am going to be able to get replacement ammo

Make it a game now. Tell them you just got some in and that you will hold a live auction with them.

A related note is that People have become MUCH ruder and demanding and threatening than they ever were before. Simple things we have always had as a policy, like not returning ammo or guns, now is a fight and they literally yell and say they are gonna spread it all over the internet about how much we suck etc.

Also...some of the same people are so filthy and dirty and have a crust of weeks' worth of buildup...shudder. I don't even want to touch the guns when they are done.

Fingernails filled with dirt, BO so bad you have to walk away...

It's like in the last 10 years we have DEvolved.

Heard story at the LGS about a customer lost his job over buying (hoarding ammo). Guy in his mid-50s pulled in everyday around 9:30 am in a company van (HVAC from what I was told), walked the path to the ammo shelves and bought what ever was available, obiding by any limits imposed by the LGS. Around 3:30-4:00pm he'd be back, in the same HVAC company truck. More often than not he was refused ammo, since the clerk recognized him and that he'd already made a purchase of the limit for the day. Several times he was confronted about hoarding. His response was always "its for my friends", when in fact he is a know scalper at local gun shows, per other customers.

Couple weeks go by and the guy hasn't shown up. Then one day he reappears. The store owner mentioned to him that they missed him and is antics. The guy replied that he'd lost his job. Supposedly, one of the HVAC company supervisors that was overseeing a job this guy was supposed to be on, got to wondering why the job was so far behind. In the end, the supervisor tracked the guys movement via a GPS in the company vehicle. The supervisor stopped by the LGS, identified himself and asked if any of the employees had seen one of his company vans at the store. He also produced a picture of a particular employee (the guy that had been in every day) and asked if the person driving the van was his employee. Store clerks were a little apprehensive about answering, but in the end, gave the guy up.

Moral of the story - don't park the company billboard (van) near a gun shop, and don't buy ammo on company time.

Good. This BS behavior along with the other 100 abusive obnoxious behaviors, needs to be stomped out asap.

Problem is that most retail places are scared to death of bad reviews online and so everyone gets their ass kissed regardless of their situation.

There needs to be room to tell someone their behavior has now crossed a line and you need to leave and do not come back.

I even had one guy the week of black Friday literally demand the price we were going to place on the item ON black Friday. He said its not his fault he hs to work on Friday and he knows we can change the price and we WILL change it or he is never shopping here again.

We very politely declined.

He showed up that weekend and i heard him instructing his young son how to behave like he did so he can get what he wants.

And he is not alone.

If the store had my name on the sign i would have told his 400 pound pajama pants wearing belligerent ass to [bleep] off.

But oh well lol