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I got to thinking about seniorshooteress's bad experience. Academy is a Texas born and bred store:

"Academy Sports + Outdoors traces its beginning to 1938 when founder Max Gochman opened the Academy Tire Shop in San Antonio, Texas. After a few years, Max began selling military surplus in his shop. In 1956, he moved his business, then called Academy Super Surplus, to Austin, Texas and expanded the operation to four stores. In 1973, Max's son, Arthur Gochman, began developing similar stores in Houston, Texas. Arthur opened six Academy Super Surplus stores, and the business continued to grow. In the early 1980's, Academy added sports and outdoors items to its assortment of products and evolved into a full line sporting goods store. By 1990, Academy Sports & Outdoors grew to include 28 stores across Texas and became a leader in the sporting goods industry."

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It's corporate hq is in Harris county near Katy. I'm surprised that a very successful store like Academy has implemented gun sales procedure that would be more commonly found in say.......california? Or up east somewhere? But in Texas?

Come on Academy! You're not selling a bazooka! It's only a gun for crying out loud.

My word seniorshooteress! What a nightmare! I admire your intestinal fortitude and endurance but gosh! What they were putting you through was wayyyyyyy over the line. I've never ever had that kind of run around just to buy a gun. Pffffttttt!

Like gigag04 & MoJo say, just go somewhere else. Places like that are great for window shopping, but after you've spotted what you like, write it all down on a piece of paper while you're there, and tell the sales guy you know what an ordeal it is to buy from them, and you're gonna buy it online, but thanks just the same!

I hope hubby got the work boots he was looking for.