[fabsroman]

I think you will find that the guns are the same in quality as long as you are comparing the exact same model of gun. Now, if you want a quality gun, I wouldn't look at Wal-Mart too hard because they just do not carry the quality merchandise (i.e., the carry the entry level stuff). Personally, I wouldn't buy a gun from Wal-Mart of K-Mart, but if those stores help a couple of people get into the hunting/shooting sports each year, then I am all for it.

As far as escorting you out of the store, I think that is completely stupid. If you really wanted to rob the store or kill somebody in it, what would prevent you from going out to the car, loading the gun, and walking right back in? NOTHING. Most people are smart enough to know that a 12 ga. shotgun will take 12 ga. shells, so they could stop at K-Mart on their way to Wal-Mart, pick up a couple of boxes of buckshot, buy a Remington 870 at Wal-Mart, go out to the car, load the gun up, and blast away in Wal-Mart. If they don't get caught, they could stop back at K-Mart on the way home and start blasting there too. Being escorted out of the place would irritate me, but I can understand if they escort you to the register because that gun is a high ticket item in those stores. Kind of like when I buy computer memory at Best Buy and they escort me from the sales floor to the cash register and hand the memory to the cashier. The couple of shop lifters out there make it bad for the rest of us.