Posted on 06/14/2014 5:22:51 AM PDT by ABN 505
We apologize for the inconvenience but item MAG-805, Mag Walther P38 P1 9mm 8 Round Factory Magazine, has been deleted from your order. Cheaper Than Dirt has been notified of certain legal restrictions in your state, which makes it illegal for us to sell or ship the item to you. If you have any questions, please contact us at (800) 421 - 8047, Monday through Friday, 7:30 am - 7:30 pm Central Time or Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm Central Time. You can also send an email to customerservice@cheaperthandirt.com. We appreciate your understanding in this matter. We value you as our customer and hope to serve you again in the future. Sincerely,
Cheaper Than Dirt! Customer Service Department
If you look, there usually is a page of state listings of where they cannot ship certain items.
CT is a small state. You might want to take a nice trip to New Hampshire or Vermont to “relax” and visit gun stores.
Contrary to what many assume, laws are not always clear. Some are so unclear that not even formally retained legal counsel can give consistent advice to a retailer. And the regulatory agencies are seldom inclined to offer concrete opinions.
Faced with those sorts of uncertainties, it’s up to the retailer. Each individual retailer always has his/her own personal preferences about how much risk they are willing to incur, when selling to a particular customer in a particular state. Smaller retailers, with shallower pockets, are less able to defend against lawsuits or mount a legal challenge to regulatory decisions; they opt for lower risk.
And guns/ammunition are but a small part of the total equation. State governments grow more insistent with every passing year, about collecting sales tax on transactions that cross state lines. State revenue departments believe that citizens who buy stuff from out of state are greedily and immorally circumventing local tax laws.
Agreed. Thought that’s basically what I wrote, but I did segue a bit...
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