-=> Quoting Dave Appel to Steve Gunhouse on 06-25-96  22:26 <=-
 Re: Plastic
 SG> JP> My Comment:  If you own one or more guns that the gubbermint don't
 SG> JP> know about, you might not want to buy ammo for it with your plastic.
 SG> JP> Pay cash instead.
 SG>Not necessary most places I shop. All that appears on the credit card
 SG>slip is the total, not the specific items or even the type. They don't
 SG>know what it is I paid x amount for, only where I got it and how much I
 SG>paid.
 DA> Do they scan UPC numbers at those stores?  And is the credit card
 DA> swiped through the cash register or a separate machine?  If the
 DA> cash register scans UPC number, and if the card is swiped
 DA> through the cash register (not a separate machine), then the
 DA> possibility for mating the UPC numbers to the credit card account
 DA> is there.
 DA> If those places where you shop use the old-fashioned way, and
 DA> emboss your card on the little "chunk-clunk" machine, and use the
 DA> 2 or 3-part credit card slip that is filled out by hand, then
 DA> you're ok.
I answered this yesterday, but in case you missed it: the places I buy
ammo - other than Walmart - do not have credit card machines which talk
to their registers, nor do they have UPC scanners.
OTOH, I have not made it a secret what I own. Any agent who monitors this
echo, Firearms and RTKBA ought to know most of my weapons just from
comparative references (as in, I really like my ...)
Well, then again I've sold or traded several, so they may not know which
ones I don't have anymore - or which I just got in trade.
Steve
... 911 is no protection.  1911A is!
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