Bass Pro Calgary requires registration for Canada and the BATF/ USA!

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The gun counter required logging the PAL, pellet gun, Drivers Licence, phone number, and the same info on a Bureau of Alcohol and Firearm form! They claimed it was for the American Corporate Office.

Registration is alive and well in Alberta!

They will see no business from me until this changes.
 
Canuck Bob said:
The gun counter required logging the PAL, pellet gun, Drivers Licence, phone number, and the same info on a Bureau of Alcohol and Firearm form! They claimed it was for the American Corporate Office.

Registration is alive and well in Alberta!

They will see no business from me until this changes.
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They can shove it where the sun don't shine.
 
Canuck Bob said:
The gun counter required logging the PAL, pellet gun, Drivers Licence, phone number, and the same info on a Bureau of Alcohol and Firearm form! They claimed it was for the American Corporate Office.

Registration is alive and well in Alberta!

They will see no business from me until this changes.
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It's horse sh!t. Bass Pro are doing something on their own and feeding lies to their staff and customers. If the BATF (who have no jurisdiction Canada) required end user certification then it would end with the Canadian distributor who imported it and not the dealer or consumer.

Here is a question - Do Cabelas and Bass Pro ship their firearms from their own respective wharehouses in the USA or do they get them from Canadian distributors or US manufacturers? If they do export their own firearms they may be required to do an end user certification but that should end at expport or their store level not the consumer level.
 
MC One Shot said:
It's horse sh!t. Bass Pro are doing something on their own and feeding lies to their staff and customers. If the BATF (who have no jurisdiction Canada) required end user certification then it would end with the Canadian distributor who imported it and not the dealer or consumer.

Here is a question - Do Cabelas and Bass Pro ship their firearms from their own respective wharehouses in the USA or do they get them from Canadian distributors or US manufacturers? If they do export their own firearms they may be required to do an end user certification but that should end at expport or their store level not the consumer level.
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I can't speak for firearms, but I do know of a few other products that they get from Canadian distributors.
 
Canuck Bob said:
The gun counter required logging the PAL, pellet gun, Drivers Licence, phone number, and the same info on a Bureau of Alcohol and Firearm form! They claimed it was for the American Corporate Office.

Registration is alive and well in Alberta!

They will see no business from me until this changes.
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Isn't it bad enough that we live under the lash of the Canadian CFOs?
Why should the Americans have our data?
If they want our data, they should sell us their rights (and a particular Amendment I'm thinking of.)
 
Canuck Bob said:
The gun counter required logging the PAL, pellet gun, Drivers Licence, phone number, and the same info on a Bureau of Alcohol and Firearm form! They claimed it was for the American Corporate Office.

Registration is alive and well in Alberta!

They will see no business from me until this changes.
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Are you serious? Has anybody buying firearms from the BPS in Vaughan had to do this? Your blowing smoke ,right?
 
Walk in and ask them first, if so then talk to the manager and advise them why you are not buying. then send a polite e-mail to the head office stating why you will not be buying and pointing out that your hard earned money is going to a competitor.
 
BP is a giant WalMart for outside stuff anyway, as much as I dislike WSS if I had to buy from a big box store I'd go there first.
 
Make a formal compliant to the RCMP, your MP and the US Ambassador in Ottawa. Copies to your local and Ottawa papers will stir up things.
 
What are you worried about the BATF for? They are only one of several American law enforcement agencies that have direct access to CPIC, and the firearms registry, and they won't be destroying their records either.
 
hmm maybe I'll have to go buy a new $1500 rifle I had no intention of purchasing before now, only to pull out on the deal because of it. Wonder what they would do if they lost 10 big ticket transactions in a week because of the policy?
 
This sounds like the classic case of Head Office, being located in one country, is too myoptic to understand that satellite store, in a whole other country doesn't need to follow the same paperwork as the other 98% of the stores they run.

I've seen stuff like this hundreds of times, where HO makes a blanket directive that simply isn't appropriate for some stores.

Anyone remember the kerfuffle recently with Canadian Tire recording down PAL info and personal address info in their little ammunition book? It's an Ontario thing only, but ALL Canadian Tire stores were doing it, because Ontario is the center of the universe after all, and if Ontario does it, by golly, everyone else should too.

Likely all that is required in this case is for one person to make a rational arguement with the store manager, pointing out that this BATF form is a USA thing only, and does not apply in Canada. If need be, getting on the horn with Big Corporate, especially with a carefully worded warning letter from the CSSA and NFA, would get things straightened out PDQ.
 
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