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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A self evident lie gratuitously added by CNN to validate their hatred of firearms ...
At least he outted himself.
Stockholders should hold Dick's accountable.
And of course over at DU they’re cheering him on.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212557083
But somehow halfway down the thread it morphed and they’re pissed off Dick’s didn’t destroy hunting shotguns as well.
Never enough.
Dick’s Sporting Goods
has destroyed Defense Rifles
used to SAVE GOOD PEOPLE
from BAD PEOPLE with guns.
Dick’s supports BAD PEOPLE WITH GUNS !!
Dick’s is evil.
No amount of virtue signaling can change that.
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” Your bridles are ready communist donkeys!
Dick’s Sporting Goods HURTS GOOD PEOPLE !!!
What an awful store.
Sounds like a win, win. The gun manufacturers make $5 million, Dick’s loses $5 million, and now the gun manufacturers will be able to manufacture and sell an extra $5 million in guns because of the demand that wasn’t fulfilled because of the guns Dick’s destroyed.
Edward Stack Is a virtue signaling twat that destroyed shareholder value. They should fire him as CEO.
“Sounds like a win, win. The gun manufacturers make $5 million, Dicks loses $5 million, and now the gun manufacturers will be able to manufacture and sell an extra $5 million in guns because of the demand that wasnt fulfilled because of the guns Dicks destroyed.”
There is some truth to that. It looks like mom and pop shops are going to make all the money because the corporate world is ceding the firearms market.
I predict the Dick’s will be out of business in five years because it is being run by “grasshopper” leftists. You
it
Golf Galaxy is also owned by Dicks so if you are a golfer, there is another store to avoid like the plague.
After finding out that Dick’s had sold the Parkland shooter a shotgun, they destroy their inventory of an altogether different gun.
Industrial Strength Stupidity
Many of us will never buy from them.
Colt stopped manufacturing AR-15’s because there are too much stock. What Dick’s did must be music to Colt’s ears. They might be back in production earlier thanks to this boneheaded move that hurts noone but Dick shareholders.
Many of us will never buy from them.
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That will be true but they business involved a lot of other
items besides guns which is only a small portion of their
retail merchandise..
“Yes, they are a public company. I am sure there was a write off for those guns.”
Which we will all lose as tax payer revenue! This cost us, not them!
Edward Stack is lying.
The IRS should rule that any company that deliberately destroys its own merchandise due to other than health reasons should not be able to write off the loss on their taxes.
Okey dokey. If they want to trash millions of their own money and merchandise, let them.
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