Posted on 04/15/2018 12:41:35 PM PDT by Simon Green
Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced plans to destroy the modern sporting rifles, magazines and accessories they pulled from their shelves in recent weeks. That’s the word from a corporate spokesperson asked about pallets of inventory removed from displays nationwide. The sporting goods dealer’s mouthpiece said the firearms would be destroyed at regional distribution centers and the parts sent to a salvage yard for recycling.
Dick’s made the arbitrary policy change, deciding against selling America’s favorite rifle along with standard capacity magazines and other accessories amid a frenzy of post-Parkland corporate virtue signaling. The beleaguered company‘s CEO, Ed Stack, also decided the company would also arbitrarily discriminate against 18-20-year-old (now former) customers wishing to purchase firearms or ammunition.
In fact, he went further than that. He urged politicos to pass more gun control restrictions, too. Here’s an excerpt of his long-winded corporate suicide note as reprinted in USA Today.
Beginning today, DICK’S Sporting Goods is committed to the following:
We will no longer sell assault-style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles. We had already removed them from all DICK’S stores after the Sandy Hook massacre, but we will now remove them from sale at all 35 Field & Stream stores.
We will no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21 years of age. We will no longer sell high capacity magazines. We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
At the same time, we implore our elected officials to enact common sense gun reform and pass the following regulations:
Ban assault-style firearms
Raise the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21
Ban high capacity magazines and bump stocks
Require universal background checks that include relevant mental health information and previous interactions with the law
Ensure a complete universal database of those banned from buying firearms
Close the private sale and gun show loophole that waives the necessity of background checks
We ran a story on the troubles Dick’s stores (and their Field & Stream outlets) are having had filling all that freshly-vacant shelf space.
Ed Stack clearly doesn’t like guns. Or gun owners. He seems bent on driving Dick’s into the dirt as he panders to America’s gun control industry.
Stack seems determined to keep up appearances in order to rub elbows with other gun control luminaries like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and their ilk. Toward that end, Stack found some spare change in his couch and dropped $300,000 of his own cash on a Democrat “House Majority PAC” in 2016. George Soros dropped a cool million on the group the same year.
In other words, Ed Stack doesn’t need Dick’s in order to live well.
However, plenty of his employees rely on the financial viability of Dick’s to pay their bills. With leadership like Stack’s, Dick’s workers have cause to worry.
Dick’s sales are headed south. The stock price isn’t far above its five-year low and lost 5.52% on Friday the 13th alone. Those drawing a paycheck from Stack’s ailing company might want to find new employment quickly, before the SS Dick’s sinks below the waves to join Gander Mountain, MC Sports, Sports Authority.
Now that just screams “Get Off My Lawn!”
The Breastarant concept gets closer and closer...
Did I much care if some company adds arbitrary restrictions on sales? No, not really. Maybe 17-20 year olds might be a bit miffed, but doesn't affect me much. Destroy your inventory? Umm, sure, whatever. Seems stupid, but it's your stuff, have at it.
But when a story dies down and the outrage towards your company might just be smoothing out, you don't go out and pimp the story around again. Especially in the middle of spring when a whole lot of hunters and target shooters are picking out what they want.
I wasn't jumping up and down to avoid Dicks before. But you know, pile on the stupid, guess I won't harm them with my ignorant money, including their Field & Stream stores as well as True Runner stores. I'll just bring my smartphone in with me, and blow their time and finger their inventory and then buy it elsewhere.
No more trips to Dick’s for me!
What a dumb thing to do. I call, ‘PR Stunt’ and nothing more.
and make sure it’s destroyed.
= = =
Just include enough ‘evil’ ammo so I can wear them out.
Unless there are pictures, I call bullshit. Their firearms wholesaler/distributor(s) will be buying the stock back at a discount.
I don’t think they can. It isn’t like the stock was destroyed in a fire or flood. they did this on their own. Its like getting a tax write off because you tourched your own business.
Any business that goes down the political road is run by idiots. It is a lose-lose deal.
I call BS. This libtard will secretly sell the inventory.
'Gina's ?
Oh, yeah. He'll bulldoze enough of them for the publicity photographs and liquidate through third parties.
lol
Wonder if there are some shareholders who might want to sue to stop them from destroying assets.
Years ago there was a Dick's store in a mall south of us. I went in there to find some pistol ammo and took a look at the, Remington version of the AR-15. That Dick's store had at least five of those in stock but had no other type or make of "black gun." They did have a pistol I sort of wanted and about two weeks later I went in to purchase that pistol and Dick's had pulled all handguns. I couldn't even get pistol ammo there anymore so I never returned to a Dick's store no matter where I have traveled, and that was at least ten or more years ago.
Ha ha.
I don’t need Dick’s, either.
If I were a Dick’s stockholder I would be on pushing my lawyer to sue
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