Over the counter transfer at Academy Sports?

[Darkhorse]

Hello everyone, longtime guest - finally registered and am posting.
Have a question (admin, please feel free to move this if there is a better section for it).
We went into Academy Sports the other night and decided to buy a rifle (Remington 783) for my wife.
While filling out the paperwork, she made a mistake on the firearms over the counter transfer and when the clerk checked it with his answer sheet, he said he could not sell her the gun for 30 days. He had not processed anything yet, nothing inputted into the computer for the background check.
Why couldn't she just fill out another form?
Is the 30 day temporary ban only an Academy rule or is that part of the Federal laws?
I think its ridiculous that she now has to wait 30 days to buy the gun due to a simple mistake.
The clerk said that even if you messed up something like your zip code the result would be the same.
People arnt perfect and Im sure mistakes sometimes get made.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Steve

 

[Dawico]

That sounds like corporate policy to me especially since he hadn't tried to process it yet.

Many of the big box stores are very strict when it comes to screw ups with gun stuff.

I have never heard of that before but am really not surprised.

If you are still ready to buy try a different Academy if possible. That may backfire though if it is in their computer. I have no clue how far they would take something like that.

 

[TheMailMan]

Actually sounds like some low level mouth breather making up corporate policy.

Go in and talk to the manager. Or...wait till Monday and CALL the corporate offices and start asking questions.

 

[Wiliamr]

What mistake did she make?

 

[45tex]

My favorite Academy story
Imagine the 400 pound guy standing in the raised gun counter. I asked to look at a Taurus 1911. Behind him is a 15' banner that reads ALL SALES FINAL NO RETURNS. He gives me the gun and announces, "them there Taurusess's is some good Guns, we hardly never get none of em back." I glanced up at the banner and replied, I'll bet you don't.

 

[Byrd666]

I bet the gun counter guy used to work at Walmart.

 

[SA_Steve]

All Sales Final
nope, not true in Texas, at least for some reasons of merchantability

 

[A.Texas.Yankee]

What was the mistake? This is not a federal law of any kind. The mistake is just normally corrected, and initialed, and moved forward. Depending on section, either buyer or seller initials.

Sent from my LG-LS995 using Tapatalk

 

[motorcarman]

Download and PRINT ATF form 4473. Fill it out at home. Bring it with you and offer it to the sales guy.
If the form needs to be 'ONE OF THEIRS', then COPY EXACTLY what you brought.

You can work on the form at home with NO DISTRACTIONS if you are unfamiliar with it.

Search for........

atf-f-4473-1.pdf

bob

 

[45tex]

Bought a gun at Academy just before Christmas. Did in fact make some stupid mistake. The guy corrected it and I initialled it. Left with the gun.

 

[XinTX]

I don't think the best and brightest work there. Some good folks, some that should be asking if you want fries with that.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

I made a mistake on a form 4473.

I was given a new form to start over again as I was advised no mistakes are allowed on this form.

Pretty simple.

I filled it out with no mistakes and left with the gun I purchased.

This was done at a small sporting goods store.

It sounds like someone at A. made their own mistake.

 

[TheMailMan]

I don't think the best and brightest work there. Some good folks, some that should be asking if you want fries with that.

There's one at the Mesquite store that insists that he loads his 10mm ammo up to .41 mag levels.

I'm betting if his mom knew he was playing with powder and primers in his room she would be rather upset.

 

[A.Texas.Yankee]

I made a mistake on a form 4473.

I was given a new form to start over again as I was advised no mistakes are allowed on this form.

Pretty simple.

I filled it out with no mistakes and left with the gun I purchased.

This was done at a small sporting goods store.

It sounds like someone at A. made their own mistake.

There actually not supposed to hand you are new form.

 

[jrbfishn]

No new form for mistake and the customer has to make corrections, not the sales person. We do the computer form, no do-overs. Period. When we had the form, the only way you got a second is if the first was not readable. And the both forms were stapled together.

sent from an idgit coffeeholic

 

[orbitup]

I don't think the best and brightest work there. Some good folks, some that should be asking if you want fries with that.

I was looking at a lever action in "45" the other day. I asked "Do you have any 44 mags in the back?" He said "No, just 9 and 40".

 

[rsscoggins]

What was the mistake? This is not a federal law of any kind. The mistake is just normally corrected, and initialed, and moved forward. Depending on section, either buyer or seller initials.

Sent from my LG-LS995 using Tapatalk

Yep, I bought a shotgun in the Garland TX Academy - made a mistake and the guy had me make the change and then initial it. Walked out with said shotgun.

 

[HandgunHTR]

From the ATF themselves:

"Errors on printed forms may be corrected prior to completion of the transaction by marking through the error (for example, by striking through the entry), entering the correct information, and initialing and dating each correction. In addition, if the FFL or the buyer discover that an ATF Form 4473 (or e-Form 4473)is incomplete or improperly completed after the firearm has been transferred, and the FFL or the buyer wish to make a record of the discovery, then the FFL should photocopy the inaccurate form (or e-Form 4473) and make the necessary additions or revisions to the photocopy.The FFL should only make changes to Sections B and D. The buyer should only make changes to Sections A and C. The person who made the changes should initial and date the changes. The corrected photocopy should be attached to the original Form 4473 (or e-Form 4)"

This is from an ATF Newsletter (https://www.atf.gov/file/5046/download) and is in the section that clarifies ATF Ruling 2008-3.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I sure hope that is not the way it actually looks online, lol.

 

[HandgunHTR]

I sure hope that is not the way it actually looks online, lol.

No, obviously it left the spaces out at the end of the lines in the newletter when it is cut and pasted. I will fix it.