Dick's Sporting Goods selling assault rifles again via new store chain

NBC News via WPXI ^ | August 21, 2013 | Hannah Rappleye and Tom Winter

[rightwingintelligentsia]

A national sporting goods company that suspended sales of assault rifles after the Newtown, Connecticut shooting that cost 26 lives is now selling the type of gun the shooter used via a new and separate chain of specialty stores.

Dicks' Sporting Goods issued a statement after the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting, in which Adam Lanza killed 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School with a Bushmaster assault rifle, that it would suspend the sales of assault rifles.

"We are extremely saddened by the unspeakable tragedy that occurred last week," said the statement, "and our hearts go out to victims and their families and to the entire community. Out of respect for the victims and their families, during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in our store nearest to Newtown and suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chainwide."

Gun control activists praised the chain's decision at the time. But now Dick's has opened the first store in a new chain called Field & Stream that specializes in hunting and fishing products, and a call to the store in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania reveals that Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifles are for sale.

[albie]

All hail Dick’s for their stand against violence!!~sarc So now they just sell guns under another name. Always follow the money. They lost my business for good either way.

[LibLieSlayer]

I hope that they go bankrupt.

[CodeToad]

Much too little and too late. Dicks hasn’t seen a dollar of mine since they went anti-firearm.

[USCG SimTech]

Much too little and too late. Dicks hasn’t seen a dollar of mine since they went anti-firearm.

Buckling to the neo-Nazis makes you one of them. Done forever with them all. Plenty of Dick's competitors out there will get my cash.

[mykroar]

Same, and won’t. Ditto for F&S.

[wardaddy]

Me either

[ZULU]

Great epose NBC News!!

A company selling something legal it has every right to sell.

Yawn. Liberals make me sick to my stomach.

[USCG SimTech]

Much too little and too late. Dicks hasn’t seen a dollar of mine since they went anti-firearm.

Buckling to the neo-Nazis makes you one of them. Done forever with them all. Plenty of Dick's competitors out there will get my cash.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Still wont give them a dollar. guns/sports equip, etc and have steered a lot of sports teams, in the various leagues i play in, away from them, that were using them.<>

Sucks to be a Dick, Dick’s.

[circlecity]

"a call to the store in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania reveals that Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifles are for sale."

This is not an assault rifle. It is a semi-automatic rifle with a military look to it.i

[Boogieman]

How stupid do they think people are? Now they won’t please either the anti-gun or the pro-gun crowd with this move.

[Tenacious 1]

Is Dick’s what they sell or is it who they are? I forget.

[DCBryan1]

ASSAULT RIFLES

Great...

Me on phone with Dicks: I'll take 2 M16s made before 1986 for $20,000+ ea. please. Oh, and here is $400.00 for transfer taxes. Wait? What? 9mos to 12 mos for a Form 4 transfer? Yes. I am out of state, and will use my local FFL. What?! 6 mos for a Form 3 tranfer?

Are you telling me that I'll be buying an overpriced 30 year old machinegun(s) and will wait 12-18 mos for ATF to get off their ass and put a tax stamp on a piece of paper?!

CLICK!

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[DCBryan1]

Woot....NFA "assault rifles" for sale at Dicks (field and stream)....because the media NEVER gets firearms stories wrong! /sarc

[vette6387]

They are certainly living up to their name!

[DoughtyOne]

^{Good for Dick's Sporting Goods.}

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[piroque]

Another added to the Don't buy from list

[OB1kNOb]

"Out of respect for the victims and their families, during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in our store nearest to Newtown and suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chainwide.....(however, out of sliminess and two-faced hypocracy we will establish a new chain of stores by a different name so we can hide underneath the covers like the politically correct cowards that we are and still sell these popular & legal arms.)

[olezip]

A national sporting goods company that suspended sales of assault rifles after the Newtown, Connecticut shooting that cost 26 lives is now selling the type of gun the shooter used via a new and separate chain of specialty stores.

The store must be run by Democrats; they like having it both ways!