The stores do not have access to the list of firearms anyone has. Thus why would they ever ask what guns you possess. "handy" does not make it legal nor responsible. If on the trip back to where you reside, the shipment goes missing or damage occurs, WHO is responsible?
If I wish to buy supplies for what might be a fictitious person, how would the store know. Thus the supplies can be traced to specific buyer.
Why indeed! It makes no more sense for the store to know what firearm you are purchasing the components for than it does for them to know if you actually purchasing components for a yourself or for someone else. Perhaps the components are being bought for a lawful non-firearms related activity, in which case the purchaser would be unable to purchase the product that he had a lawful requirement for. In a free country that makes little sense. Hell, I still don't know why we need a firearms license. We never had them before '79, and society has become a lot more dangerous since we've had them. Its none of the stores business, if the purchaser has a PAL when the purchase is for other than a firearm or ammunition as required by law.
Just for the heck of it, have you ever considered if the clerks at those stores have to pass a security clearance. What happens to the PAL numbers they record. Now and then we hear about store clerks who use credit card numbers for their own gain. You might have a whole bunch of guns registered to you that you know nothing about, simply because you gave up your firearms license number too readily when purchasing components.
The carrier is responsible for any missing or damaged shipments, regardless of the destination, provided the declaration is correct and the labeling is correct. I would prefer to have the box unmarked, but the law requires placards, so that how you do it. The shipment could be going to a large urban center or is could be going to a small remote community. Thus it could be a trucking company, a railroad, or an airline, that is responsible or it could be a courier company that uses any of those other companies to deliver their shipments, that is responsible for the shipment. That does not change with the nature of the goods being shipped.
As I said earlier, there is no legal requirement for the store to ask to see a Firearms License prior to the purchase of goods other than ammunition or firearms. Components are not ammunition.
How does the store know if the purchase you make of 30' of hemp rope is for you or for a fictitious person? Why would they care if the law doesn't require them the track the sale of hemp rope? Yet if a store's policy was to see photo-ID prior to a cash sale, when it was not required by law, how much more rope would you buy there? I'd probably leave it right there at the till and buy my rope across the street. Same with components.
