All of you are idiots, can't you see this fire is the result of climate change? #believethescience.
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So Adventure Outdoors caught fire today...
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I thought ODT banned scientists from commenting!
Where do I submit my refund request?
My understanding is it happened at the old location. What I remember is they had guns they weren't able to account for. The guns were then ending up in New York City. Bloomberg even sued them. Whole thing was kind of a mess. I'm not sure what was ever able to have been proven. But it looked pretty bad. I do remember they seem to blame bad employees for the unaccounted guns.
That must have been when they started the "gun escorts" (trained by a slug) and the receipt checker at the door...
I miss the good ole days when (alleged) illegal gun sales meant better customer service...
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Somebody struck a match in the bathroom.....
I thought that happen to tucker gun
It's a good place to make a trade since no one bats an eye at someone in the parking lot holding a rifle.
Besides, I don't mind AO as a store at all. In fact I'm a regular customer there. In normal times they have decent prices and a heck of selection, and I've never had a problem with the employees or their check out process, with 1 exception.
You do have to know when to go, since the place can be a mob scene on say, a rainy Saturday, but that's hardly their fault.
They are probably the most audited store in the US as well as the highest volume independant store in the country. That's why they are so particular about paperwork and chain of custody until you actually leave the store.
They ended up in Bloomberg's sights back in the late 2000s when they traced back a load of 'crime guns' that were sold in GA, and a lot of them came from the 'old' AO store. That put Bloomie on the warpath against them.
This would have been the Obama timeframe so he was pushing the Feds hard to shut them down any way they could, which goes back to why they take their 4473s and paper trails so seriously there compared to other gun stores.
As for stolen or missing guns, every store has that problem. It's called 'shrinkage' in the retail industry, and the largest component of it is employee theft.
I'm sure AO has some guns go missing, every gun store does eventually, as do a whole bunch of gun owners. If you're an FFL you simply follow the procedure with ATF and try to fix the problem so you don't go broke.
FWIW, the old guy who checks your receipt on the way out isn't there to keep YOU honest. That's done at the cashier. And he's not there to keep someone from a snatch-and-grab type crime. Just look at him, he couldn't stop a 10 year old.
The reason he's checking what you walk out with against your receipt is to keep the cashiers honest.
I asked one of the managers about him one time, and I guess they had a case where a cashiers' friend, boyfriend, whatever, came up with a scheme to steal guns. He would show up with a gun and a box of ammo and she would simply ring up the ammo and the friend would walk out the door.
That old guy is there to make sure that if you walk out with a gun it shows on the receipt, and that the cashier isn't trying to pull a fast one.
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