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Dick's has destroyed $5 million worth of weapons, its CEO says
CNN ^
| October 8, 2019
| Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed, CNN
Posted on 10/08/2019 10:55:33 AM PDT by Morgana
(CNN)Dick's Sporting Goods has destroyed $5 million of the chain's gun inventory, its CEO said. After finding out that Dick's had sold the Parkland shooter a shotgun, CEO Edward Stack decided last year the company would no longer sell firearm to anyone under 21. Dick's announced it would destroy its inventory of weapons, rather than allow them to be sold by another retailer. Since then, about $5 million of the chain's gun inventory has been turned into scrap metal, Stack said in an interview with CBS. "All this about, you know, how we were anti-Second Amendment, you know, 'we don't believe in the Constitution,' and none of that could be further from the truth," he said in the interview. "We just didn't want to sell the assault-style weapons that could inflict that kind of damage."
The shooting Stack is a hunter and gun owner who believes strongly in the Second Amendment. The company, which his father started as a fish-and-tackle shop in 1948, has sold guns since long before Stack started working there in 1977.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: banglist; dicks; didyousearch; guns; isearched; postedseveraltimes; searchsaidnotfound; searchstillworks; yesisearched
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What a dick.
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posted on
10/08/2019 10:55:33 AM PDT
by
Morgana
To: Morgana
Dear Employees, no pay raises as we have been burning money.
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posted on
10/08/2019 10:57:08 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
To: Morgana
Are they a public company? If I was a shareholder I would be furious.
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posted on
10/08/2019 10:57:13 AM PDT
by
Junk Silver
("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
To: Morgana
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posted on
10/08/2019 10:58:25 AM PDT
by
albie
To: Junk Silver
Yes, they are a public company. I am sure there was a write off for those guns.
But they are idiots.
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posted on
10/08/2019 10:59:03 AM PDT
by
RummyChick
("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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posted on
10/08/2019 10:59:54 AM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
To: Morgana
And it’s business as well.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:00:20 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: Morgana
Dick’s. Some places are aptly named.
To: Morgana
Get woke and go broke.
True every time it is tried.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:02:21 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: Morgana
As is now said:
Get Woke, go broke.
Dick’s management living up to their name.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:02:23 AM PDT
by
bkopto
To: Morgana
CEO ought to be OUT OF A JOB. Destroyed $55M in merchandise? I’d FIRE HIM if I was on the board.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:02:40 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
To: Morgana
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3784546/posts 😂🙌
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:03:23 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Morgana
Bankruptcy coming faster than we thought! Look for Texas stores to close sooner!
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:03:34 AM PDT
by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Junk Silver
$5 million is nothing to a national chain. The bad publicity will hurt them worse.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:04:13 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(The Democrats - Paid For By The Father of Lies. There is no truth in them.)
To: Morgana
Gun manufacturers and gun sellers are breaking out the champagne and raising a toast to Dick’s.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:06:30 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(2019 => The House of Representin')
To: CodeToad
Yep they went a long way to make their political statement.
To: RummyChick
I’m thinking that they have set up a system of armories near activity centers of Antifa.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:09:35 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Morgana
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:10:44 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
To: Morgana
Academy - 24/7 choice for everything athletic and outdoors, great price, service and selection. Vote with your wallet, there’s no need to feed these Leftists.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:13:04 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
To: Morgana
CEO ought to be OUT OF A JOB. Destroyed $55M $5M in merchandise? I'd FIRE HIM if I was on the board.
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posted on
10/08/2019 11:16:00 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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