If I was sole proprietor of a gun shop, and I saw someone commit an assault somewhere else, I might conclude that whether or not this resulted in a court record that would cause the instant-check to reject her, I thought she was too violent or unstable and I wouldn’t sell her any gun. But after I banned her from my shop, I wouldn’t pass notes around to other gun shops like, “Jane Doe is psycho and shouldn’t have a gun.” That would likely be slander, unless and until there was a court felony conviction or other finding that she was dangerous and couldn’t own a gun. Not to mention that it would be conspiring with other shop owners to deny her a constitutional right…

In this case, the lawsuit implies they not only want possibly slanderous notes passed around, but they want a clerk in another department to pass the notes to gun shops in thousands of Walmart stores, with or without any indication that she would ever attempt to buy a gun. That is, this lawsuit is an attempt to use governmental power to coerce a private business into doing something that the government shouldn’t be able to do without a court hearing and private individuals shouldn’t do at all.

Now w/o going into my opposition of background checks on general principles speech, it’s a bad idea for a very practical reason:

Only a small fraction of people who would be denied would have posed a problem in the first place. & that’s using what you (not I) would think is a reaosnable standard. But you know damn well it won’t stay reasonable for long, & just like people sentenced to one day of a paperwork crime that carries a 1 year + penalty are denied arms, so would anyone who went to a marraige counselor. In other words there’d be too little net gain to justify the very real slide down that particualr slope.

as an aside incident slike this have caused some wal marts (& other stores) to not seel ammo to you when you purchase a gun. Last time I bought from wallyworld I even got the “you’re a toddler again” escort out of the store & couldn’t actually hold the box until I wa sin the parking lot. Got into a nice little chat with the escorter over it but other than causing the at the time g/f to roll her eyes at both of us it didn’t do much good. company policy & all.

ut at the least look for a change for the worse in how wal mart conducts transactions because of this.

As per Kim’s suggestion, I try not to buy gun related stuff at walmart as it is just a stocking item to them, if the heat gets on they would not be going to bat for gun rights.