so a Walmart manager just came to my door.....

[vmax]

I was home for lunch and some guy comes to the door. I go over and he intorduced himself as a manger of the walmart and this visit was about a gun purchase

he had his name badge on so he was official...

OK, I;m listening.....

he said that the gun purchase I did last month, the woman didn't write in my LTC number on the 4473 and they had done a self audit and found it. I remember her taking the DL and CHL and she kept them behind the counter for 5 minutes and they had a manager check all of her work before they walked me out with it...
he had the 4473 that I filled out in his hands

I remember they ask me for my phone number and I told them no and they tried to say they had to have it and I said to show me on the 4473 where the space is for the buyers phone number....
anyway, since they didn't have my number they just sent a manager to my house to get the permit number and they were nice enough to hand me a $20 gift card for the trouble....

he got the number copied down and was gone i 4 minutes

 

[locke_n_load]

Sounds like a good interaction all around.

 

[Wyldman]

I'm not entirely sure how I would have reacted in that same scenario. My first reaction would probably be something on the order of "too bad, so sad" and closed the door. I do not like 4473s and avoid them at all costs, whenever possible. I simply do not believe that BATFE doesn't have a warehouse full of those completed forms somewhere, legal or not.

I guess a $20 gift card for their screw-up isn't too bad.

Crush, kill, mangle, maim, destroy.

 

[Charlie]

Seems strange to me that Wal Mart would do that. I think they should have sent you a letter asking you to come in to verify their information. I don't think I would have let the guy in my house. 'Maybe just inform him that I would come to the store at a later date. It just seems extremely unusual to me.

 

[Younggun]

Probably didn't want to rely on him coming in to fix it. That would have been a MAJOR issue for them in a BATFE audit, or even for the manager in a corporate audit.

He was covering his ass.


Sent from my HAL 9000

 

[orbitup]

You had him over a barrel. Maybe you could have gotten a $50 gift card.

Sent from.... RIGHT BEHIND YOU!

 

[zincwarrior]

I would not have just given it to him. I wouldn't mind going back to the store to confirm however. Mistakes happen and this could easily be something some hard working slob might get fired over.

 

[Polarbear6]

Is this an April Fools prank? :-)

 

[vmax]

To clarify he never came in my house
Nowhere did I even say that

Secondly he was very nice and apologetic and I did get the sense someone was going to get their ass ate out over this

Why not help him?
I see no reason to be anything but nice back to him

 

[zincwarrior]

Secondly he was very nice and apologetic and I did get the sense someone was going to get their ass ate out over this

Why not help him?
I see no reason to be anything but nice back to him r

Exactly. Now unless I knew this manager I myself would have gone back to the store (don't give out private info), but I would have done so for the reasons you noted. I think we've all been in their shoes at one time or another.

I'd have asked for two bricks of .22lr instead of a the gift card though. Daddy always needs him some .22lr for his boomstick!

 

[Dawico]

To clarify he never came in my house
Nowhere did I even say that

Secondly he was very nice and apologetic and I did get the sense someone was going to get their ass ate out over this

Why not help him?
I see no reason to be anything but nice back to him

You did fine. It sounds like he had everything in order as to not seem like some random Jack off the street.

I would have done the same to help them out.

 

[Renegade]

Sounds like a good interaction all around.

Except for the FEDERAL FELONY that was committed.

 

[Renegade]

Why is it, so many folks in the USA are so completely unable to follow simple written, instructions, especially when they are holding them in their hand?

Anyone?

eta

talking about the walmart guy, not OP or anyone in thread.

 

[zincwarrior]

Why is it, so many folks in the USA are so completely unable to follow simple written, instructions, especially when they are holding them in their hand?

Anyone?

eta

talking about the walmart guy, not OP or anyone in thread.

Because people aren't perfect?

 

[Renegade]

Because people aren't perfect?

Reading instructions is only for perfect people?

 

[gwjohns]

Sounds like 2 associates need to be held accountable for their actions, the associate filling out the form and the assistant MGR double checking it


Protect this House I will

 

[majormadmax]

You did fine. It sounds like he had everything in order as to not seem like some random Jack off the street.

I would have done the same to help them out.

Because people aren't perfect?

Exactly, but I guess those criticizing him for doing the right thing are the same ones who are never wrong or make mistakes themselves!

You did right, and good on them for the gift card. A win-win situation in my book!

 

[vmax]

Sounds like 2 associates need to be held accountable for their actions, the associate filling out the form and the assistant MGR double checking it


Protect this House I will

I rememember the lady who did the sale. She seriously acted like she didn't know what to do next. I felt bad for her but then, it took a full hour, after I said "I want that gun" for me to walk out the door.

It was flustrating to sit there and wait for this and that. They didn't have the key to the trigger lock they use and that took 20 minutes, then another 20 for a manager to go back and get the box out of the back lock up.
She kept my DL and LTC for awhille, plenty of time to write it down.

We spent 5 mintues talking about how I wasn't required to give them my phone number. They use the electronic 4473 which is just a computer and keyboard and you type it in instead of writing it. When I was done with my part, they did their part and it came to the NICS part and thats where she needed my LTC number in place of the NICS authorization.

I does not surpise me to find out they messed up after all

 

[Renegade]

Exactly, but I guess those criticizing him for doing the right thing

Except he did the wrong thing and committed a Federal felony by tampering with a legal federal document. Hence why it pays to read the directions.

A for effort, F for implementation

Unless he runs his mouth at his next inspection, nobody will ever know.

 

[Charlie]

To clarify he never came in my house
Nowhere did I even say that

Secondly he was very nice and apologetic and I did get the sense someone was going to get their ass ate out over this

Why not help him?
I see no reason to be anything but nice back to him

If you're referring to my initial post, I never said YOU let him into your house. I said "I" would not let him in my house. Ease up. No harm, no foul. I just thought it was a strange situation.