The only thing the store is doing is protecting themselves. Its no different than liquor or tobacco. Some stores will tell ALL buyers of this stuff they have to have ID. The reason is the stores don't want to put it on employee's to decide who to ask and who not to ask. They just make everyone show it. Saves a LOT of dealing with some karen at the register about why they were asked and someone else was not.
Back in the day I used to buy .22 ammo at Wally. Back when it was just sitting there at the sporting counter. The register would beep and a screen would pop up asking the cashier, "Is ammo for hand gun? Is buyer 21?" A lot of cashiers would glance at me and hit the correct buttons. Some of them would freeze, you could see their lips moving as they were reading the prompt. Those I would just say "Yes its for a hand gun and yes I am over 21." Most would just smile at that point and ring me up. I did have one ask for my ID for a pack of cigarettes one time when I was like 30. I laughed and showed her my ID.
No sir.
Normally stores like this get "memo's" and such now and then or mentioned in meetings about this kind of thing. Some will follow the letter, others will figure they will not bother. There is not (yet) any law saying they have to do the ID. Its just to protect them. If one of them does sell to someone who is under age and something "happens" lawyers will be there wanting money.
This happens quite a bit, even at the grocery store when buying beer. Haven't bought ammo at a store for at least 10 years, so no idea what they do now.
As so often happens you are aiming your anger at the wrong person, and wanting to punish (such as it is) the wrong person. BiMart did not pull this idea out of their butt one day because they had nothing better to do. This is brought to you by the law makers people keep voting for. So if it makes you feel better to not shop at BiMart ? Hey you do you.
Exactly this. You can complain about "over compliance" or "not a everyone does it that way" but at the end of the day businesses are like individuals, they have different tolerance to risk, and this includes legal risks that comes from laws. You can bubblegum about a business being more sensitive than you are, but trying to hurt them for it is aiming your ire at the wrong entity. If you spent half the effort going after the politicians as the business you might have an chance at actually impacting the situation, instead of, you know, fragging your own side.
There you go, the "at my age" thing. Which tickles the doodoo out of me when they do that, my being 73 years old. On the other hand, a few places where I scatter money around, they give a senior bubblegumizen discount, without asking or looking at an ID. That's the other end of being carded, senior or veteran discount.
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