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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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As stated previously" "Don't be dicks!" Bryant gumball? Pffftttt! So, any future hb-hoe projects will NEVER contain any firearms for any reason? No? That's weird. Will they go back and redo past series to edit out firearms? How about sword play in game of thrones? No? So, again: "Don't be dicks!"
1 posted on 04/29/2019 8:18:28 AM PDT by rktman
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DSG was my go to for UA gear.

I get everything from Dunham’s now.


2 posted on 04/29/2019 8:20:42 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: rktman

How do we put these people out of business?!


3 posted on 04/29/2019 8:21:31 AM PDT by rexthecat
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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.


4 posted on 04/29/2019 8:21:59 AM PDT by boycott
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Are they going to stop showing movies with guns in them.
If not, they are hypocrites.

5 posted on 04/29/2019 8:22:31 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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I guess $150 million loss wasn’t enough.


6 posted on 04/29/2019 8:23:18 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

A sporting good store pushing gun control... Would that be like Starbucks trying to decrease caffeine consumption?


7 posted on 04/29/2019 8:23:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Eddie01

The ventriliquist guy? No Dunhams around our place. :-)


8 posted on 04/29/2019 8:24:45 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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This rifle has its genesis in war,

What an idiot. ALL GUNS have their genesis in war.

9 posted on 04/29/2019 8:24:52 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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Meanwhile the only effective organization to counter the relentless anti-gun propaganda of the Left - the NRA - is busy fighting itself.


10 posted on 04/29/2019 8:24:54 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Eddie01

DSG was my go to for UA gear.

Good to see University of Alabama fans on here.

:>)


11 posted on 04/29/2019 8:25:04 AM PDT by boycott
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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.

This could be said about the musket as well.

12 posted on 04/29/2019 8:25:43 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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...I guess $150 million loss wasn’t enough...

That results in store closures & job losses as collateral damage.


13 posted on 04/29/2019 8:25:57 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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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.


14 posted on 04/29/2019 8:26:22 AM PDT by PGR88
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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.


15 posted on 04/29/2019 8:27:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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I remember buying a .22 and ammo at a mom and pop hardware store.


16 posted on 04/29/2019 8:27:51 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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How has Gumbel survived #metoo?

Oh yes a man of color

Always looked like white denier to me


17 posted on 04/29/2019 8:30:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (When only the best Santa will do...call Joe Biden)
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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.


18 posted on 04/29/2019 8:36:16 AM PDT by boycott
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Ohhh, I’m so afwaid of big, scaaawy guns!


19 posted on 04/29/2019 8:36:29 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: Texas resident

Western Auto, Coast to Coast, used to be the go-to for .22s...


20 posted on 04/29/2019 8:36:43 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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