-=> Quoting Dick Roebelt to Steve Gunhouse on 06-25-96  00:23 <=-
 Re: Plastic
 SG> JP> My Comment:  If you own one or more guns that the gubbermint
 SG> JP> don't know about, you might not want to buy ammo for it with
 SG> JP> your plastic. Pay cash instead.
 SG>Not necessary most places I shop. All that appears on the credit
 SG>card slip is the total, not the specific items or even the type.
 SG>They don't know what it is I paid x amount for, only where I got it
 SG>and how much I paid.
 DR> What is on the slip is not really important.  The store's computer
 DR> has all that data in easily readable form.  And many times that data
 DR> _IS_ sent to the credit card company.  There is BIG money in mailing
 DR> lists and your credit card company makes millions providing
 DR> specialized lists such as computer/component buyers and I'll have to
 DR> assume that applies to firearm and related purchases.
True, if they have a computer, etc. The gun dealers I frequent still use
regular cash registers - not computerized registers with scanners. Others
don't have communications between their credit card machines and their
computers, and are too lazy to enter all that other info onto the
receipt. Either way, the only purchase info on the receipt is the dealer
and the total, not the type of item nor the specific info. Now, it's a
safe bet that my purchases from Custom Cartridge Company are ammo, but
only Carl (the owner) and I know what I bought.
Now, if you purchase ammo at Wal-mart, you may be in trouble. But there,
I only buy .44 Magnum and .303 British ammo (which they'd already know I
own one of). Everything else they'd never know of. Sure they can find
records of my purchases of some guns (and not others), but most of my
ammo is unknown.
Steve
... I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing. - Izaak Walton
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