@JBoyette @Ammoparts.com
I understand your empathy with the OP here in dealing with firearms and the general public. I, too, was a small businessman for many years. I am also not one to jump on the "burn the witch!" bandwagon when a business does something that happens to slight someone else.
While the majority of this discussion has been focused on TSA's recent dust-up over the concealed carry policy, I find their mercantile habits of data gathering (by not selling to anyone who won't give their name/range card/member number in an otherwise public establishment in order for TSA to establish a profile in their database) to be even more troubling. Will I give my name to the clerk at a restaurant so they can call my name when my #2 combo is ready? Sure. Do I want my name attached to every firearm related parts and ammo transaction, no matter how insignificant, no. No I don't.
I realise this next question is somewhat rhetorical, but why do you think so many guns where sold during the last presidential administration's tenure, and in the run up to the most recent election? Because everyone was scared to death that someone was going to end the sale of firearms as we know it. And many continue to fear that they may try to take them away at a future date. So we all dumped them in the lake. While we can't seem to do much about all those 4473's out there, I would sure like to limit the records of everything else.
As much as I have been impressed by TSA's range, and cafe, I find this practice of insisting they invade my privacy in what I can only assume is an attempt to further their marketing goals to be simply unacceptable and I made the decision to vote with my feet after politely, but vocally expressing my concern and displeasure when it occurred.
