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HBO Teams With Dick’s Sporting Goods to Push Gun Control
newbusters.org ^ | 4/29/2019 | Jay Maxson

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; 2a; banglist; dicks; hollywood; morons
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To: rktman
Never shopped at “Dick's”...and haven't had HBO since the 80s.
21 posted on 04/29/2019 8:37:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Barr:The Bill Belichick of Attorneys General)
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To: rktman

Dumped HBO a while back.
Stopped going to Dick’s a while back.
This affects me not at all.
Will effect Dick’s and HBO in a continuing way.

This SJW nonsense will be in case studies in (successful) Business Schools for decades.


22 posted on 04/29/2019 8:39:53 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: rktman
"This rifle has its genesis in war,"

As do all rifles.

23 posted on 04/29/2019 8:39:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Eddie01
I get everything from Dunham’s now.

I don't have a Dunham's near me, but I'd like to throw a plug in for Cabela's. I have always had a great experience either in-store, or online, with their stores.

24 posted on 04/29/2019 8:41:46 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Eddie01

Dick’s is telegraphing their virtue. Good for them.

They are also telegraphing their demise. Competitors are watching also.


25 posted on 04/29/2019 8:42:06 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: rexthecat

“How do we put these people out of business?!”

Off hand, WE don’t. It is very likely the demographic and market data dsg has on hand says even with the loss of gun folk, they can stay profitable by both bending over to the market for cheap chinesium sporting “goods,” and kneeling in front of the antigun media. It is submission all around and completely driven by their market. WE are no longer their market.

If the dicks step in it with the under armor, yoga-mat, fishing rod, sleeping bag, golf club, ball-bat-raquet buying public (cheap chinesium grade), they will go down in the ignominy they so richly deserve.

KYPD


26 posted on 04/29/2019 8:43:53 AM PDT by petro45acp (13th 14th 15th 19th......Why would a black person or a woman vote democrat?)
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To: rktman

It’s not about “gun control.” Guns don’t need controlling. The problem is individuals who think that it’s OK to use a gun to kill.

That’s because the left has promoted a culture of nothing is right and nothing is wrong.


27 posted on 04/29/2019 8:44:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: circlecity

“This rifle has its genesis in war,”
As do all rifles. “

As did archery.


28 posted on 04/29/2019 8:44:20 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rktman

Sad. Dicks used to be the place to go locally for a wide selection of firearms and supplies.

I won’t go there anymore.

How’s their stock doing? Why aren’t these CEO’s fired for driving the stock down? Has TARGET recovered?


29 posted on 04/29/2019 8:46:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Macoozie

This SJW nonsense will be in case studies in (successful/surviving) Business Schools for decades.


30 posted on 04/29/2019 8:48:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( One of President TrumpÂ’s Clinging, Deploreable, Low IQ Dreg supporters helping to MAGA!)
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To: rktman

Get Woke, Go Broke.

Nobody needs HBO or Dick’s anyway.

Let them serve as future case studies in Business schools on how to destroy a profitable company.


31 posted on 04/29/2019 8:49:23 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Eddie01

Wonder how the Game of Thrones would turn out for HBO, if only the White Walkers had weapons? Funny that they arm both sides in GOT but expect the law abiding to be disarmed in reality.


32 posted on 04/29/2019 8:51:18 AM PDT by son of terrence
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To: PGR88
I don’t go there much.

A real conservative wouldn't go there at all.

33 posted on 04/29/2019 8:52:18 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: rktman

I never shop @ Dick’s,and I only have HBO until Game of Thrones ends.


34 posted on 04/29/2019 8:54:21 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: rktman

“Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their eyes”. Founding Fathers.


35 posted on 04/29/2019 8:55:48 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: rexthecat
How do we put these people out of business?!

Cancel your HBO and don't shop at Dick's.

36 posted on 04/29/2019 8:56:45 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: rktman

I don’t watch one and don’t shop the other; problem solved.


37 posted on 04/29/2019 9:01:21 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I only have HBO until Game of Thrones ends.

If you really want to send a message, you would cancel HBO today.

38 posted on 04/29/2019 9:01:37 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: MayflowerMadam

Not sure why anybody goes to dicks anyway. I don’t think they have much in the way of inventory I couldn’t find at Acadamy sports.....and a lot cheaper!


39 posted on 04/29/2019 9:03:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: rexthecat

I put this one on the manufacturers. All firearms makers should refuse to sell anything to Dicks and instruct their distrubutors to do the same. Pushing gun control is hostile to the entire industry. Don’t sell to them.


40 posted on 04/29/2019 9:06:39 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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