Posted on 02/28/2018 9:59:18 AM PST by Ennis85
As students at the Florida school where 17 people were recently killed returned to classes, a major gun retailer has announced it will stop selling the kind of weapon used in the attack.
Dick's Sporting Goods, which has more than 600 shops, said it would no longer sell assault-style rifles, and backed "common sense gun reform".
The move came as pupils and teachers made an emotional return to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Grief counsellors were on hand.
In the aftermath of the 14 February shooting, pressure has mounted on US politicians to act on gun control and for corporations to cut ties with the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA).
Firms including Hertz car rental, United airlines and Delta airlines have ended discounts to NRA members.
Dick's Sporting Goods announcement also came as Florida lawmakers proposed a package of gun control measures, including a controversial bill to arm school staff, including teachers.
"We have tremendous respect and admiration for the students organising and making their voices heard regarding gun violence in schools and elsewhere in our country," Dick's Sporting Goods said in a statement. "We have heard you. The nation has heard you."
The retailer said it was committing itself to:
No longer selling assault-style rifles (The company had stopped selling such weapons after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting but 35 shops run by a subsidiary had continued to do so.) Banning the sale of high-capacity magazines that allow more shots to be fired without reloading Not selling firearms to anyone under the age of 21
It said that while it supported the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, "gun violence is an epidemic that's taking the lives of too many people".
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I’ve never shopped there....now I never will.
And this time they really really mean it.
Time to cut off Dick’s
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Dick’s ChiCom owned Sporting Goods?
Shocking!
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Again?
They opened a new location near me here in Houston just a few months ago that sells what I guess constitute “assault-style” rifles.
Is their plan to stop selling them, then quietly reintroduce them so they can stop selling them again and virtue-signal anew?
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Whoa!
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A true assault rifle is already illegal to own/sell, is it not?
Same.
They are just living up to their name...
Never been in one of their stores and for sure have no reason to go in one now.
Its illegal for Dicks to restrict gun sales to 21 years old and above. 18 years is the legal age and denying them is hateful discrimination and a violation of civil rights.
I love your posts :)
Hope they enjoy their going out of business sale.
Dicks is lashing it’s own back. Hope those anti-gun shirt sales back stop the guns and ammo revenues. I’m thinking Dicks stock not a good long term buy.
Thanks.
Dicks just stepped on their’s.
They are now learning what my tagline warns liberals about.
Demand for AR 15’s went up, and any good replicas/replacements will be sold quickly.
Dicks Sporting Goods corporate phone number:
(724) 273-3400
As a go-forward, advertising campaign, I suggest that Dick’s Sporting Goods appeal to gun-grabbing Liberals for their business.
Dicks firearms department wasnt worth a crap anyway. So I doubt getting rid of AR-15s will have much effect on their bottom line, or would eliminating their whole firearms department. Here in OKC there are many better choices like Cabelas within a mile of Dicks and many great local owned gun stores.
Bye bye Dicks. Apparently I never knew you.
5.56mm
More people are murdered by knives than rifles. 5 times more people.
Dick’s still sells knives.
Rush brought to light the fact that Cruz bought his AR 15 at Dicka and Dicks performed all background checks required. Cruz passed the back ground checks because all of Broward county law enforcement was prohibited from arresting him and thus creating a negative background.
The Dicks CEO is a coward for not loudly proclaiming that fact
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