This is not about Dick's, but the now-defunct Gander Mountain:
About eight years ago I bought a pistol from Gander and it took about 45 minutes to process the paperwork. About four years ago, at Christmastime, they had a sale on Mosin Nagants and my wife and I went there to get one for our son. It took the employee at Gander almost two hours to complete the paperwork as Gander had instituted their own paperwork that mirrored the federal stuff but had to be done separately. Then I had to wait for a store manager to review all the paperwork. My wife was not happy but she did get to peruse the rest of the store in detail.
We never went back to any Gander and they are now gone.
Speaking of Gander Mountain, I recently checked out the website for the new “Gander Outdoors” and was surprised that they actually had firearms. Looking closer at the rifles - bolt-action and lever-action only. Pfft.