GA LegionRider
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I was in N. Little Rock on business and to visit my son last week. While we were spending some time together before I had to fly back to South Carolina we decided to visit some local gun stores. Whenever I travel around the country I always try to check out a couple of the local gun stores as you never know what you might find.
Well, to make a long story short I found a used WASR brand AK-47 type that was in like new condition at the Fort Thompson Sporting Goods store in N. Little Rock. The sales associate said the previous owner wanted to get rid of it because he already had 2 or 3. (I didn't know you could have too many.) They only wanted $400 for it and I've seen many before that had earned the description 'used' that cost a lot more. I mean this gun looked like it had just come out of the box.
So once I talked myself into it I started filling out the paperwork. When I entered my current state of residence as South Carolina I was informed that they could only sell to residents of states that bordered AR. They insisted that they were correct as they had checked this before so I didn't argue with them and left.
I got the same story across the street at the local Gander Mountain store. Now I had already been to the local WalMart in NLR and looked at their guns and checked out the gun sales map I always see posted in every WalMart that sells guns. So I went back to make sure and the map clearly shows that AR stores can sell to SC residents and a WalMart sales associate I talked to about the situation confirmed that I could. He was ready to sell me a gun.
Can anyone shed any light on this matter? Are the gun laws different for different types of stores or were the Fort Thompson and Gander Mtn people sadly misinformed and screwed themselves out of a sale, as is my suspicion?
Well, to make a long story short I found a used WASR brand AK-47 type that was in like new condition at the Fort Thompson Sporting Goods store in N. Little Rock. The sales associate said the previous owner wanted to get rid of it because he already had 2 or 3. (I didn't know you could have too many.) They only wanted $400 for it and I've seen many before that had earned the description 'used' that cost a lot more. I mean this gun looked like it had just come out of the box.
So once I talked myself into it I started filling out the paperwork. When I entered my current state of residence as South Carolina I was informed that they could only sell to residents of states that bordered AR. They insisted that they were correct as they had checked this before so I didn't argue with them and left.
I got the same story across the street at the local Gander Mountain store. Now I had already been to the local WalMart in NLR and looked at their guns and checked out the gun sales map I always see posted in every WalMart that sells guns. So I went back to make sure and the map clearly shows that AR stores can sell to SC residents and a WalMart sales associate I talked to about the situation confirmed that I could. He was ready to sell me a gun.
Can anyone shed any light on this matter? Are the gun laws different for different types of stores or were the Fort Thompson and Gander Mtn people sadly misinformed and screwed themselves out of a sale, as is my suspicion?