Dick's Sporting Goods loses firearms businesses after gun control push

Fox News ^ | May 11, 2018 | Katleen Joyce

[libstripper]

Several major gun manufacturers said they were severing ties with Dick’s Sporting Goods in response to the company's February announcement it would no longer sell assault-style weapons due to the deadly Parkland school shooting.

“It has come to our attention that Dick’s Sporting Goods recently hired lobbyists on Capitol Hill to promote additional gun control,” Mossberg & Sons CEO Iver Mossberg wrote in a press release. “Make no mistake, Mossberg is a staunch supporter of the U.S. Constitution and our Second Amendment rights, and we fully disagree with Dick’s Sporting Goods’ recent anti-Second Amendment actions.”

The manufacturer called on customers to “visit one of the thousands of pro-Second Amendment firearm retailers” instead.

[Sirius Lee]

Friday Feel Good story.

[Red Badger]

Dick’s screwed themselves.....................

[Red Badger]

I would say they shot themselves in the foot, but they don’t have a gun................

[MayflowerMadam]

Dick’s didn’t really “lose” the firearms business, did they? Didn’t they kick it to the curb? You can’t say “go away”, and then whine when it does. Sheesh.

[MeganC]

Good news! I hope they go bankrupt!

[Balding_Eagle]

by refusing any further sales to Dick’s Sporting Goods & Field & Stream.”

THE Field and Stream magazine?

[fwdude]

This is kind of scary. A big retailer fears a leftist political movement more than their customer base?

If Dicks, then who else?

Only lends credence to the fact that this is a spiritual issue.

[JenB987]

I don’t really think that Dick’s cares.

[trebb]

Dick’s just dicked itself...

[ResponseAbility]

****THE Field and Stream magazine?****

An earlier thread on the same matter indicated that it is NOT Field & Stream magazine.

[Billthedrill]

An earlier thread on the same matter indicated that it is NOT Field & Stream magazine.

Who, at this point, must be tearing their hair out at the confusion. It's one thing to piss off half your customers, it's another to piss them all off.

[ResponseAbility]

And another to piss off your suppliers.

[polymuser]

Stupid dicks.

[Cobra64]

Hopefully they will go bankrupt.

[Albion Wilde]

Dickless Sporting Goods.

[TnTnTn]

They can reduce their inventory to yoga pants and sneakers....

[technically right]

Dicks is nothing more than a clothing store with a few sets of golf clubs and tennis rackets up on the mezzanine level. Bassbela’s is the place to go.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I hope they go insolvent.

[Celtic Conservative]

Sounds painful.

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[libstripper]

I’m shocked, absolutely shocked. You’ve not yet become a member of the FR Boating Club.