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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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KEYWORDS: banglist; dicks; didyousearch; guns; isearched; postedseveraltimes; searchsaidnotfound; searchstillworks; yesisearched
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What a dick.
1 posted on 10/08/2019 10:55:33 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Dear Employees, no pay raises as we have been burning money.


2 posted on 10/08/2019 10:57:08 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: Morgana

Are they a public company? If I was a shareholder I would be furious.


3 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)
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To: Morgana

WE’RE SAVED!!!!!!


4 posted on 10/08/2019 10:58:25 AM PDT by albie
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To: Junk Silver

Yes, they are a public company. I am sure there was a write off for those guns.

But they are idiots.


5 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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Dicks Sucks


6 posted on 10/08/2019 10:59:54 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Morgana

And it’s business as well.


7 posted on 10/08/2019 11:00:20 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Morgana

Dick’s. Some places are aptly named.


8 posted on 10/08/2019 11:02:11 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Morgana

Get woke and go broke.

True every time it is tried.


9 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.)
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To: Morgana

As is now said:

Get Woke, go broke.

Dick’s management living up to their name.


10 posted on 10/08/2019 11:02:23 AM PDT by bkopto
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CEO ought to be OUT OF A JOB. Destroyed $55M in merchandise? I’d FIRE HIM if I was on the board.


11 posted on 10/08/2019 11:02:40 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Morgana
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3784546/posts 😂🙌
12 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?)
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To: Morgana

Bankruptcy coming faster than we thought! Look for Texas stores to close sooner!


13 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)
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To: Junk Silver

$5 million is nothing to a national chain. The bad publicity will hurt them worse.


14 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.)
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To: Morgana

Gun manufacturers and gun sellers are breaking out the champagne and raising a toast to Dick’s.


15 posted on 10/08/2019 11:06:30 AM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: CodeToad

Yep they went a long way to make their political statement.


16 posted on 10/08/2019 11:09:14 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: RummyChick

I’m thinking that they have set up a system of armories near activity centers of Antifa.


17 posted on 10/08/2019 11:09:35 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Morgana

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3784546/posts


18 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.)
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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.


19 posted on 10/08/2019 11:13:04 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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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.
20 posted on 10/08/2019 11:16:00 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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