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As hunting season is right around the corner I finally decided I would buy my own gun instead of borrowing friends gun. On Saturday I headed up to Bass Pro Shops in San Antonio to make a myriad of purchases I had settled on getting a Remington 700 in .270 and a 12 gauge shotgun. Since I am a Florida resident I knew I would need to bring my PCS orders from Milton to Kingsville with me. After semi-working off a mean hangover I got in my truck with a buddy also intent on making the same purchases and headed for San Antonio.
Got to Bass Pro and immediately started to fill up the cart. I picked up two nice single gun hard cases, some boots, etc...We went to the gun counter and began to try out some different models of the Rem. 700. I decided on the 700 CDL in with the nice wood stock vice the less expensive SPS with the synthetic stock. My buddy settled on a Tika .270. We also startled looking for nice scopes. I was going to pick up a Nikon 9x40 with the BDC feature. Here begins the debacle.
As it came time to pick up our new rifles we each pulled out our orders, our military id's, and out state id's. The rep at the counter began to look over our orders and commenter on how the keep looking different so another service rep stepped over to help. He looked over out orders and simply said sorry we can not sell you these guns. His reasoning was because they said we were under training for a period not to exceed "20 months" and since they did not expressly says that they were PCS orders we could not buy the guns. We explained that they were PCS orders showing him where is read change of duty station, but to no avail. He again brought up the 20 month line to which we responded that we would be moving every 3 years for the next 10 years of our lives so what really constitutes permanent. Still nothing. We talked to head of security at Bass Pro, he apologized profusely then said it wasn't the store that didn't want to sell us the guns but that the ATF would not accept the wording of our orders. Needless to say we weren't happy and left our full shopping carts and began the drive back to Kingsville. All told I spent $180 and have nothing to show for it, stupid gas prices.
Anyone know of a good gun store in Corpus or in the area? Still trying to make these purchases
Got to Bass Pro and immediately started to fill up the cart. I picked up two nice single gun hard cases, some boots, etc...We went to the gun counter and began to try out some different models of the Rem. 700. I decided on the 700 CDL in with the nice wood stock vice the less expensive SPS with the synthetic stock. My buddy settled on a Tika .270. We also startled looking for nice scopes. I was going to pick up a Nikon 9x40 with the BDC feature. Here begins the debacle.
As it came time to pick up our new rifles we each pulled out our orders, our military id's, and out state id's. The rep at the counter began to look over our orders and commenter on how the keep looking different so another service rep stepped over to help. He looked over out orders and simply said sorry we can not sell you these guns. His reasoning was because they said we were under training for a period not to exceed "20 months" and since they did not expressly says that they were PCS orders we could not buy the guns. We explained that they were PCS orders showing him where is read change of duty station, but to no avail. He again brought up the 20 month line to which we responded that we would be moving every 3 years for the next 10 years of our lives so what really constitutes permanent. Still nothing. We talked to head of security at Bass Pro, he apologized profusely then said it wasn't the store that didn't want to sell us the guns but that the ATF would not accept the wording of our orders. Needless to say we weren't happy and left our full shopping carts and began the drive back to Kingsville. All told I spent $180 and have nothing to show for it, stupid gas prices.
Anyone know of a good gun store in Corpus or in the area? Still trying to make these purchases
