Dick’s, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles
Feb 28, 2018 09:22:59 #
You better buy your pretend assault style rifles while you can because if congress isn't going to act then it looks like business is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/dicks-major-gun-retailer-will-stop-selling-assault-style-rifles.html
One of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.
The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.
The announcement, made two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that k**led 17 students and staff members, is one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America in the national gun debate. It also carries symbolic weight, coming from a prominent national gunseller.
Late last week, after coming under attack on social media for their ties to the National Rifle Association, a number of major companies, including Hertz car rental, MetLife insurance and Delta Air Lines, publicly ended those relationships, issuing brief, carefully phrased statements.
But Edward Stack, the 63-year-old chief executive of Dick’s whose father founded the store in 1948, is deliberately steering his company directly into the storm, making clear that the company’s new policy was a direct response to the Florida shooting.
“When we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,” Mr. Stack said in an interview Tuesday evening. “We love these kids and their rallying cry, ‘enough is enough.’ It got to us.”
He added, “We’re going to take a stand and step up and tell people our view and, hopefully, bring people along into the conversation.”
Mr. Stack said he hoped that conversation would include politicians. As part of its stance, Dick’s is calling on elected officials to enact what it called “common sense gun reform’’ by passing laws to raise the minimum age to purchase guns to 21, to ban assault-type weapons and so-called bump stocks, and to conduct broader universal background checks that include mental-health information and previous interactions with law enforcement.
Mr. Stack said the retailer began scouring its purchase records shortly after the identity of the suspected Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, became known. The company soon discovered it had legally sold a gun to Mr. Cruz in November, though it was not the gun or type of gun used in the school shooting.
“But it came to us that we could have been a part of this story,’’ he said. “We said, ‘We don’t want to be a part of this any longer,’” said Mr. Stack.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/dicks-major-gun-retailer-will-stop-selling-assault-style-rifles.html
One of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.
The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.
The announcement, made two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that k**led 17 students and staff members, is one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America in the national gun debate. It also carries symbolic weight, coming from a prominent national gunseller.
Late last week, after coming under attack on social media for their ties to the National Rifle Association, a number of major companies, including Hertz car rental, MetLife insurance and Delta Air Lines, publicly ended those relationships, issuing brief, carefully phrased statements.
But Edward Stack, the 63-year-old chief executive of Dick’s whose father founded the store in 1948, is deliberately steering his company directly into the storm, making clear that the company’s new policy was a direct response to the Florida shooting.
“When we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,” Mr. Stack said in an interview Tuesday evening. “We love these kids and their rallying cry, ‘enough is enough.’ It got to us.”
He added, “We’re going to take a stand and step up and tell people our view and, hopefully, bring people along into the conversation.”
Mr. Stack said he hoped that conversation would include politicians. As part of its stance, Dick’s is calling on elected officials to enact what it called “common sense gun reform’’ by passing laws to raise the minimum age to purchase guns to 21, to ban assault-type weapons and so-called bump stocks, and to conduct broader universal background checks that include mental-health information and previous interactions with law enforcement.
Mr. Stack said the retailer began scouring its purchase records shortly after the identity of the suspected Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, became known. The company soon discovered it had legally sold a gun to Mr. Cruz in November, though it was not the gun or type of gun used in the school shooting.
“But it came to us that we could have been a part of this story,’’ he said. “We said, ‘We don’t want to be a part of this any longer,’” said Mr. Stack.
Feb 28, 2018 09:27:06 #
PeterS wrote:
You better buy your pretend assault style rifles w... (show quote)
Dick's along with all other legal sporting stores have never sold a military weapon.It's against the law.
Feb 28, 2018 09:32:49 #
vernon wrote:
Dick's along with all other legal sporting stores have never sold a military weapon.It's against the law.
They are talking about the AR-15 and other guns styled to look like military assault weapons. You know, the pretend assault rifles you cons like to think will protect you from an assault from government...
Feb 28, 2018 09:36:02 #
Couple of things...
1) I have renewed my NRA membership
2) I'm going to purchase a new firearm this afternoon (not from Dicks, they have lost my business forever) going to pick up a nice 9mm for concealed carry.
3) I'm boycotting any business who is boycotting the NRA
Join me, my friends, join me.
SGM B out.
1) I have renewed my NRA membership
2) I'm going to purchase a new firearm this afternoon (not from Dicks, they have lost my business forever) going to pick up a nice 9mm for concealed carry.
3) I'm boycotting any business who is boycotting the NRA
Join me, my friends, join me.
SGM B out.
Feb 28, 2018 09:39:15 #
SGM B wrote:
Couple of things...
1) I have renewed my NRA membership
2) I'm going to purchase a new firearm this afternoon (not from Dicks, they have lost my business forever) going to pick up a nice 9mm for concealed carry.
3) I'm boycotting any business who is boycotting the NRA
Join me, my friends, join me.
SGM B out.
1) I have renewed my NRA membership
2) I'm going to purchase a new firearm this afternoon (not from Dicks, they have lost my business forever) going to pick up a nice 9mm for concealed carry.
3) I'm boycotting any business who is boycotting the NRA
Join me, my friends, join me.
SGM B out.
Good idea. Get them while you can cuz the clock is ticking on Assault styled rifles...
Feb 28, 2018 10:09:09 #
EL
Loc: Massachusetts
PeterS wrote:
Good idea. Get them while you can cuz the clock is ticking on Assault styled rifles...
As usual, criminals will always be able to get them.
Feb 28, 2018 10:16:18 #
PeterS wrote:
Good idea. Get them while you can cuz the clock is ticking on Assault styled rifles...
Aaaaa...hey dumass, did you miss the part where I said I am getting a 9mm for concealed carry??
The only one here mentioning the feared "assault rifle" is you. You obviously are afraid of one so don't buy one - it really is that easy.
Feb 28, 2018 12:55:42 #
PeterS wrote:
Good idea. Get them while you can cuz the clock is ticking on Assault styled rifles...
Peter, I'm really trying to understand how you people think that cosmetics on any weapon make it any more, or less dangerous. I really am.
Do you know what this is?
It's a 12 gauge pump shotgun. is it more dangerous because of how it looks?
Feb 28, 2018 16:11:33 #
archie bunker wrote:
Peter, I'm really trying to understand how you people think that cosmetics on any weapon make it any more, or less dangerous. I really am.
Do you know what this is?
Do you know what this is?
Hey Arch, I know! I know! Pick me! Pick me!
It's an assault rifle.
Oh...it ain't an assault rifle? You sure? It sure is ugly and looks very mean.
Shotgun huh...your sure...okay guess I was wrong.
Feb 28, 2018 16:16:58 #
EL wrote:
As usual, criminals will always be able to get them.
The point isn't to stop criminals from getting guns but crazy mass shooters...
Feb 28, 2018 16:25:30 #
PeterS wrote:
The point isn't to stop criminals from getting guns but crazy mass shooters...
Huh? Aren't crazy mass shooters criminals.
Feb 28, 2018 17:22:01 #
SGM B wrote:
Huh? Aren't crazy mass shooters criminals.
Makes you wonder, don't it?
Mar 1, 2018 03:27:38 #
SGM B wrote:
Huh? Aren't crazy mass shooters criminals.
Yeah, once they pull the trigger but until they pull the trigger they are no different than you...
Mar 1, 2018 03:30:19 #
archie bunker wrote:
Makes you wonder, don't it?
Yeah like why don't we label someone a criminal before they've taken any actions. I would love to label anyone who buys a pretend assault rifle a criminal. But that's just me, what about you???
Mar 1, 2018 03:41:48 #
archie bunker wrote:
Peter, I'm really trying to understand how you people think that cosmetics on any weapon make it any more, or less dangerous. I really am.
Do you know what this is?
Do you know what this is?
Below is a M-16 and then pretend rifles designed to look like M-16. As for what makes a weapon more dangerous than an other, since all of them are equally adapt at mass murder there is no difference between them--save for the fact that no one would ban your 12 ga because even though it is the most dangerous weapon out there you guys still seem to prefer to use pretend assault rifles to do your mass k*****g...
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