Yesterday I had to present my ID at Walmart buying a small bottle of Testors Acryl paint. The day before at the shooting range I could rent a gun and buy a box of ammo with no questions asked… When I inquired the reason I should present my licence for buying paint, the guy answered that it is illegal for kids to buy and use paints and cement. So my question is: is there such a thing as “underage painter”? “Modeller’s Anonymus”? Aren’t you afraid to admint building model kits since, say, 10?[}:)]
Well. you may harm yourself by “houghing” paints and glue whereas, with bullets, you’ll only harm other people. So they have your safety in mind. 
In a lot of states, if a person is 18 years old or less, they’ll be carded for buying petroleum products like glues, paints, air cans, among others. I know it doesn’t make sense because in some states you only have to be 16 to purchase a shotgun and ammunition for it but 18 to buy paint. Hang in there and roll with the flow. [:)]
That is just dumb!
About a year ago I was told I could not buy spray paint on Sunday before 12pm… now in Texas it is illegal to sell alchohol before that time.,… but spray paint??? especially when I am well above 18… (by a year or two…or three [;)])
It’s the dirtbags that bring this on… don’t take personal offense… they don’t think you might do it. but who knows who is gonna snort some fumes??
Gee, isn’t that why we do this hobby? [:-,] Seriously though, pretty wacky rule. We have a similar one in BC where if you buy a herbicide (regardless of age) the clerk must call over her supervisor who will ask if you understand the dangers of herbicides. I always express shock, then point at the (prominent) skull and crossbone on the label. Having a 20-something clerk advise me, someone who has been killing dandelions longer than they’ve been alive, on the dangers of weed killer is laughable.
The Nanny State is in full bloom. A recent case in Rome, Georgia had 49 convenience store clerks arrested for selling coffee filters, kitty litter, aluminum foil and charcoal. Apparently these household objects can be used to “cook” methamphetamine. While I certainly don’t condone the use of drugs, especially ones as scary bad as meth (ryhmes with death), expecting store clerks to evaluate a person’s intent and deny kitty litter to a citizen is a bit overboard.
Watch for bootleg paint sales at a street corner near you.
You can make a bomb from ingredients found at your garden center. Coming next: a ban on ‘pointy things’.
Some laws make no sence, but local ordinance have to be enforced by the store owner.
In Phoenix spray paint(beware the paint police and they do exist here) must be kept behind the counter or in locked case’s(because of tagging), but cross the street in a suburb and they don’t have the same law. We also have an age limit(over 18) get I knew the kid buying the paint was going to use it on the model he just bought.
Likewise you can be 18 and openly carry a handgun on your side, but you must be 21 to buy it.
Don’t laugh, but I heard they are trying to stop the selling of pointy kitchen knives in Britain. The claim is that there is no real good reason for a pointy knife in a kitchen environment.
I have an old set of pointy knives in a knife block easily accessible on the counter. My wife and children are lectured that if somebody breaks in to the house when they’re home that they should run to the kitchen. First, there is a phone there that has 911 on speed dial, and secondly to grab a knife!
Trowlfazz, have you not flown recently? There IS a ban on “pointy” things…
One more reason to avoid Wally [censored] World [banghead]
Yep! They wouldn’t let me carry my lucky sling blade on the flight.
Wow, what a thoughtful, logical system you guys have down there in the States.
Holy cow, what the HELL is this world comming to. You can buy a gun and ammo at 16, but you can’t buy paint until 18. I’m just dumbfounded…
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Don’t laugh, but I heard they are trying to stop the selling of pointy kitchen knives in Britain. The claim is that there is no real good reason for a pointy knife in a kitchen environment.
At the risk of being labeled as off-topic, that’s what happens when a society accepts the erroneous assertion that weapons are the cause of violence. Violence and crime, whether committed with gun, knife, bludgeon, fist, or sharpened stick is born in the heart and mind not in the hand.
Sorry, off an a quick rant, taking deep breaths, regaining equilibrium…
I had the same thing happen to me at michaels. I put the paint back, went to the NSLHS and bought the same paint, cheaper, and no questions asked. Still havent figured this one out
Worse yet, you have to be 21 to get a drink. But you can be trained to kill at 18 (either behind the wheel or behind a trigger). In NY state alone, there was an additional 800+ laws passed in the last year. This is what happens whyen people get scared and politicians and lawyers feel like they have to do something to make it look like they are doing something. Whatever happened to Personal Responsibility?
i dont really care. its no problem in my area, and besides, this is the kinda thing i would sepnd the bucks on to get a fake ID. i buy model stuff enough.[:D]
NEways…actually, i saw down in a shop in NJ that in order to buy paints you had to have a card or something. they were spray paints though. i just assumed that it was because of grafitti (it was in northern NJ) but now that you mention it, i suppose thats another reason for it. but like i said, for this, i would get an ID no matter what…
I think you are wrong in this issue. Just look at the facts: in the US you can buy easily weapons of any kind, and the crime reate committed with guns, pistols, assault rifles, whatever just soars compared to the rest of the “civilized” world. In Europe you don’t see school massacres, drive-by shootings, etc. (Just recently I guy was killed in Kentucky on an argument about the war in Iraq… Instead of a nice barfight, they drew guns.)
Yes, weapons don’t kill people. But if many people have access to these things, bad things tend to happen. There are enough nuts running around everywhere. But here, the difference is that they have guns. (If you look at it, it’s not much different from the AK-carrying Afghans…)
I never got it. 17 years old are old enough to be executed… Too much of the puritan heritage lingers, I presume.
I went to Hobby Lobby today to buy some CA. There was a sign posted that said you have to be 18 years of age to buy any CA. A drivers licance or ID card would have to be presented. When I went up to the check out I asked the young lady if she needed to see any form of ID. She asked why and I told her I was over 18, so could I still buy the CA, even though the sign said I had to be 18. She just looked at me and started to laugh. I don’t know if she broke store policy but she let me buy it.
Whoa fellas!
You cannot blame the drinking age on law makers. . .it was put to a vote by the people and the ones that could vote at 18 obviously didn’t.
And if you know of a place where you can buy a weapon and ammo at 16, I’d like to hear of it.
I am way too old to be asked for ID to purchase anything now, but remember when I needed my parents to buy my model glue. . .and that horrid lemon smelling stuff that wouldn’t hold anything together.
Sure it may be stupid and it may be the biggest hassle in your life to show you are responsible, but it isn’t the clerks fault, it’s the law.
Get on your Congressman or Senator to earn his keep!!
Don