Posted on 03/06/2018 5:50:06 PM PST by Revel
A 20-year-old is suing Dick’s Sporting Goods after being refused a Ruger .22 rifle purchase based on his age.
The plaintiff, Tyler Watson, claims he faced “Unlawful Age Discrimination.”
Watson attempted to buy the rifle “on or about February 24” at a Medford, Oregon, Field and Stream store. (Field and Stream is subsidiary of Dick’s.) Watson’s suit, filed in the Circuit Court of Oregon for the County of Jackson, says a store employee refused the purchase and indicated, “He would not sell [Watson] any firearm, including rifles and shotguns, or ammunition for a firearm, because [Watson] is under 21 years old.”
The employee referenced Dick’s recent policy shift, disallowing firearm sales to anyone under 21, and cited the policy as the reason for denying the sale.
Watson’s suit alleges that Dick’s policy violates Oregon law against age-based discrimination for people 18 years and older in places of public accommodations. State law includes prohibitions against discrimination in stores that are open to the general public.
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Two very different things. This is purely age discrimination.
I am against all discrimination laws. They are all PC Liberty robbing laws. If someone doesn’t want my business I’d prefer to know it before I give them my money.
This kid is just being a jerk. He’s playing the poor discriminated minority for a chance at picking some deep pockets. He’s no better than the homos.
I wonder if Dick’s sells hunting licenses those under 21?
If Dick’s determined that 20 yrs old is too young to buy a gun, then I can’t see how they could sell them a hunting license.
Find a pro-gun attorney willing to go along. He/She will know the best way to procede.
Doesn’t an FFL dealer have the right/obligation to refuse to sell a firearm to anyone they feel is not appropriate - for any reason?
(Gut feeling, something not right, etc??)
Although doing so based solely on age doesn’t seem right.
I knew this would happen and rightly so. He can vote, so the entire Bill of Rights applies to him, period. No question, open and shut case...
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