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Dick's Sporting Goods selling assault rifles again via new store chain
NBC News via WPXI ^
| August 21, 2013
| Hannah Rappleye and Tom Winter
Posted on 08/21/2013 8:40:07 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; dickssportinggoods; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
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.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:42:06 AM PDT
by
albie
(re)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I hope that they go bankrupt.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:43:24 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Much too little and too late. Dicks hasn’t seen a dollar of mine since they went anti-firearm.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:45:46 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: CodeToad
Much too little and too late. Dicks hasnt 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.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:56:42 AM PDT
by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: CodeToad
Same, and won’t. Ditto for F&S.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:56:56 AM PDT
by
mykroar
(China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
To: CodeToad
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:57:29 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Great epose NBC News!!
A company selling something legal it has every right to sell.
Yawn. Liberals make me sick to my stomach.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:58:05 AM PDT
by
ZULU
((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
To: CodeToad
Much too little and too late. Dicks hasnt 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.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:58:07 AM PDT
by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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.
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posted on
08/21/2013 8:58:22 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"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
To: rightwingintelligentsia
How stupid do they think people are? Now they won’t please either the anti-gun or the pro-gun crowd with this move.
To: albie
Is Dick’s what they sell or is it who they are? I forget.
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:07:07 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Waiting for next tagline.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
ASSAULT RIFLESGreat...
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!
Please add the word "Banglist" to keywords. I can't do that at work for some reason, even though I can post comments. Damn barracuda filters and such.
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:07:42 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: bang_list
Woot....NFA "assault rifles" for sale at Dicks (field and stream)....because the media NEVER gets firearms stories wrong! /sarc
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:09:17 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
They are certainly living up to their name!
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Good for Dick's Sporting Goods.
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:17:41 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
To: albie
Another added to the Don't buy from list
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:21:23 AM PDT
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"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.)
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:35:37 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(If govmt is stockpiling guns, ammo, food, & meds, don't you think it's a good idea to do the same?)
To: 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. The store must be run by Democrats; they like having it both ways!
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posted on
08/21/2013 9:48:34 AM PDT
by
olezip
(Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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