Posted on 02/28/2018 7:07:01 AM PST by rktman
Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the U.S., has announced it is immediately ending its sales of assault-style rifles and requiring all customers to be older than 21 to buy a firearm at its stores.
Additionally, the company will no longer sell high-capacity magazines.
CEO Ed Stack announced the decision ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday, the same day survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are returning to class. Stack said the 19-year-old gunman allegedly behind that massacre, which claimed 17 lives and wounded many more in Parkland, Fla., had actually purchased a firearm from the retailer last November.
And he said that while the weapon a shotgun was not used in the shooting, the revelation deeply affected Stack and his colleagues at Dick's.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Today's announcement only affects a few more specialty stores they operate under a different brand name. We'll see whether it was a good business decision going forward.
Considering how close they came to selling Cruz his murder weapon, I'd say yes it was.
Yes. They've been on my "do not darken their door" list for ages.
Yeah, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the pantywaists at DICK’S announced this in the light of some other lunatic behavior.
I wonder if baseball bat beatings become the rage if DICK’S will stop selling those too.
Garbage thinking. Hope they fail.
....and then, never go back again anyway.
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