First CA Ammo Purchase

[maztech323]

So........is it normal for the store to take a copy of your ID??

Or is it just because I had out of state ID??

Or is it city/county specific.

2 boxes .223 at Annie's in Freemont.......

They secretly put a chip in your ID. Your screwed now!

[mossy]

they do it at target masters also.

[shda5582]

Interesting note: it is against CA state law for them to ask for ID for credit card purchases. If they do, you can get their merchant # and call Visa and MC and get them to pull their merchant license for violation of state law.

Not FUD or BS, google it.

[the donald]

Interesting note: it is against CA state law for them to ask for ID for credit card purchases. If they do, you can get their merchant # and call Visa and MC and get them to pull their merchant license for violation of state law.

Not FUD or BS, google it.

That is FUD and BS. Cite the penal code.

[hellayella]

...go to ammoman or sgammo, less hassle

[-hanko]

Interesting note: it is against CA state law for them to ask for ID for credit card purchases. If they do, you can get their merchant # and call Visa and MC and get them to pull their merchant license for violation of state law.

Not FUD or BS, google it.

Sorry, simply FOS.

Cite the law.

[jben]

Interesting note: it is against CA state law for them to ask for ID for credit card purchases. If they do, you can get their merchant # and call Visa and MC and get them to pull their merchant license for violation of state law.

Not FUD or BS, google it.

Maybe not entirely accurate. Read here:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/02/can-a-merchant-require-id-for-a-credit-or-debit-card-purchase/index.htm

"Both Visa and MasterCard prohibit merchants from requiring customer ID as a condition for accepting their credit or debit cards. All you need is a signed card, and of course the signatures must match."

"Incidentally, the California Supreme Court recently ruled that merchants in that state cannot collect zip codes from credit card customers in most cases. In the case before the court, retailer Williams-Sonoma requested and recorded cardholder zip codes, which it would then use to search telephone databases to identify customer addresses. Those addresses then would be used for marketing and might be sold to other businesses.

The decision is based on a California law prohibiting the collecting of "personal identification information" from cardholders. Among the exceptions are purchases from gas pumps and when the card is used for cash advances and most deposits. The law does not ban merchants from requiring IDs as a condition to accepting a credit card, as long as the information isn't recorded."

[shda5582]

Sorry, simply FOS.

Cite the law.

My mistake. It's the credit card holders, as policy, that prohibit that, not CA state law. The only law that applies is the Song-Beverly act of 1971 (which is what I was thinking of), and that applies more to zip codes.

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/can-retailers-ask-id-with-credit_card-1282.php

[Dano3467]

+1 ^^^

[Hilldweller]

Los Angeles:
Photo ID shown
Thumb print taken
They asked about my first born....thought that was a little weird......