Posted on 04/29/2019 8:18:28 AM PDT by rktman
Two staunch gun control advocates, HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and Dick's Sporting Goods, got locked and loaded together for an assault on the Second Amendment last week. Real Sports reporter David Scott interviewed gun restrictions advocate Ed Stack, the CEO at Dick's Sporting Goods, to talk about why his business has discontinued sales of AR-15s.
"I don't want it in our stores, and it will never be in our stores. I think the risk out-weighs the reward," Stack (in photo) told Scott, an Emmy Award-winning producer.
Stack said, "This rifle has its genesis in war, and people can say that it's been modified and it hasn't been. But the origins of this gun, primary reason, was to kill. We thought it would impact our sales, ya know, $150 to $250 million."
"Sounds like a lotta money," Scott responded. "It is a lotta money," Stack replied.
Scott: "Clearly your position now is that particular gun doesn't belong in a sporting goods store."
"And we succumbed to the pressure," Stack said, "which is one of the things – I don't have too many regrets in my life and my business career, but that is one of them. I wish we had never done it."
As Scott related, Dick's lost customers, suppliers and a few dozen employees, but says his "only regret was to agree to sell the AR-15 as a sporting good to begin with."
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DSG was my go to for UA gear.
I get everything from Dunham’s now.
How do we put these people out of business?!
I don’t buy guns, ammo, or any of that stuff but I refuse to enter a Dick’s Sporting Goods. They’ve expressed their views. I express mine too.
I guess $150 million loss wasn’t enough.
A sporting good store pushing gun control... Would that be like Starbucks trying to decrease caffeine consumption?
The ventriliquist guy? No Dunhams around our place. :-)
What an idiot. ALL GUNS have their genesis in war.
Meanwhile the only effective organization to counter the relentless anti-gun propaganda of the Left - the NRA - is busy fighting itself.
DSG was my go to for UA gear.
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Good to see University of Alabama fans on here.
:>)
This could be said about the musket as well.
...I guess $150 million loss wasn’t enough...
That results in store closures & job losses as collateral damage.
Dicks used to sell sporting goods. Now, its merely a clothing store. I don’t go there much.
Now they are declaring that its better business to alienate conservative customers, I won’t go there at all.
I used to use Dicks back in 2010. Since I’ve never had cable, I’ve never done HBO. I don’t know what they are up to these days - except for this.
I remember buying a .22 and ammo at a mom and pop hardware store.
How has Gumbel survived #metoo?
Oh yes a man of color
Always looked like white denier to me
I don’t buy guns or ammo but I do a lot of fishing. The fishing goods they offer vs their competition is second rate. I wasn’t a fan of Dick’s Sporting Goods before they went SJW on us. They just make it easier for me to avoid going there.
Ohhh, I’m so afwaid of big, scaaawy guns!
Western Auto, Coast to Coast, used to be the go-to for .22s...
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