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Today After I checked out from Sportsman's Warehouse in Lexington, KY, I asked why he wanted my ID....and said surely I look older than 21. He said the company is supporting Illinois governor Pritzker's new unconstitutional gun laws and they are ordered to refuse to sell ammo or firearms to IL residents even in other states. So The company is stabbing IL gun owners in the back to make that fat SOB happy. I will never step foot in there again and they will go on the Sh** list with Dick's. I sent them this message, and everybody else needs to let them know:


I just today found out that your stores are enforcing the unconstitutional laws that Gov. Pritzker in IL has inflicted on gun owners in that state. I was told that your stores in KY and other states will refuse to sell ammo or firearms to IL residents, thus enforcing that illegal IL law in Kentucky. You will not get anymore of my business and I will make sure everybody in my shooting circles will know about this callous policy that back stabs gun owners at the demand of a radical Leftist.

They’ll go in the Dont Buy From bucket next to Chi-NAAA with a lot of folks. Too many other routes to take.

If this is indeed their new corporate policy it seems pretty foolish from a business standpoint, re: it's almost impossible to really enforce and the optic alone is going to turn off some of the folks who probably spend the most money there on ammo, guns, and components. They could just get someone with a KY ID to buy the ammo (which isn't against the law in KY for a normal citizen) or if you're clearly old enough, what are they going to do if you say you left your ID at home? Refuse the business?

I just sent them a message on-line. I modified the statement a bit:


I just today found out that your store in Lexington, Kentucky is enforcing the unconstitutional laws that Gov. Pritzker in IL has inflicted on gun owners in that state. I was told that your stores in KY and other states will refuse to sell ammo or firearms to IL residents, thus enforcing that illegal IL law in Kentucky. You will not get anymore of my business and I will make sure everybody in my shooting circles will know about this callous policy that back stabs gun owners at the demand of a radical Leftist. I will be doing this in Fort Worth, Texas.


Could be just a single woke employee who took it upon himself, but if so that individual needs to be CANNED post haste. And if it's coming from corporate, they'd best get their heads outa their asses.

Allowing Illinois to screw stuff up in other states.

The millennials are moving up to management and corporate positions. Sportsmans wouldn't allow me to buy my one box of ammo one day last year because the kid said he knew I had a bunch of ammo at home and that he was going to see that this box went to someone else to try to make the world more fair. I asked if they were going to start doing home searches before approving ammo sales.

My friend manages the Spokane store and had the regional manager call me. He apologized and said some of their younger employees think they can make it up as they go along according to their own sense of a fairness. I said yes so did Obama I think that's where they get it from. The guy that threw years of bankruptcy laws out the window to give a sweet deal to the auto unions.

Bb

I run across this kind of minimum wage stupidity all the time. Always ask for a manager to confirm whether it's one knucklehead wokester or company policy. Usually the former.

Were you able to get a refund? I know some companies say no returns on ammo.

Sent an email as well.

Added to include "Scheels will be getting my business henceforth."

While I despise the laws being enacted against us, I also believe that, at some point, we need to be very careful with our reactions to them. If we boycott all the sporting goods retailers who try to live within the law, thus causing them to go out of business, aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot? If all those stores close, the bad guys win and we lose in the end. Dick's is a different story, since they actually lobbied against us, and I'll never buy anything from them again.

they are not living within the law, They are enforcing law in a state other than where they are located.

Fireworks were illegal in Georgia (not anyy more) so people went to SC to buy them, The store did not check IDs to see if you were from Georgia, they just sold and made the $$ and if you were taking them to GA illegally, that's on you.

Of course, today, someone would try to hold the fireworks seller resonsible because you chose to violate law....

There are other options that deserve our money. Scheels is a good example.

The reality of retailing guns and ammo has been changed in the past few years by lawsuits.

The store in Uvalde being sued for selling the school shooter arms and ammo is front and center, even though the murderer had a clean record, and no reason existed to deny the sale after the NICS passed him with flying colors...as is the Remington settlement.

Liability and corporate lawyers are driving company policy.

I hadn't heard that one Barrry. That kind of harassment costs big money
for a small town store. Some of my ammo comes from there.

Up until now, Sportsman's Warehouse has been one of the "good guys" in this whole leftist fiasco. This is sad to see and I hope they change their ways. It's understandable that a store in Illinois would grudgingly follow Illinois law. When a store from that chain in a neighboring state implements Illinois law it becomes scary.

Cabella's still wont ship Hi-Caps to Colorado.... or anywhere else there's a capacity limit.