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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“I remember buying a .22 and ammo at a mom and pop hardware store.”
We still have one of those in my town. It’s actually a hardware store AND gun shop. Couple years ago two guys attempted to rob it early one Saturday morning. On top of the clerks always being armed there happened to be an off duty police officer that hangs out there also. It didn’t go well for those two knuckleheads. lol
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“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.”
Scott, for some reason didn’t include, “profits,” in that list, like our profits went south bigly.
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Nope. 3 more weeks to go.
I want to add we as firearms consumers can put direct pressure on firearms manufacturers to pull their products out of Dicks. Dicks near us has probably 50 plus different hand guns. Contact Glock and ask them why their products are being sold by an anti gun corporation. Contact others and do the same thing.
“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.”
To paraphrase my drill instructor: It’s a rifle or a piece, It isn’t a gun. Guns are used by the artillery and the Navy.
As for the AR-15’s “genesis in war”... so what? It’s an inanimate object, a tool.
If Dick’s loses enough money, you won’t be the CEO for long, hopefully.
So much for putting your money where your mouth is. Reminds me of a friend who decided to protest Starbuck’s liberal agenda by cutting back to three days a week.
Haven’t done business with Dicks since they bannned weapons sales.... HBO is on my chopping block also.
We’ve stopped all purchasing at The Dick. Screw them!
Yep, three more episodes of GOT and I’m done with them.
Yep. I could singlehandedly have changed the world, and yet I dropped the ball. I never said I was protesting anything. I have never shopped at Dick’s, so I did not stop shopping there to make a point. I only carry HBO during Game of Thrones because that is all they have on that is worth watching. If I made the heroic sacrifice and canceled HBO today, you know what I’d accomplish? Dick.
Or a bow and arrow.....
Meanwhile, Academy Sporting Goods is opening up newer, bigger stores in Georgia and Alabama. At this rate Dick’s is going to be a glorified “Foot Locker”.
Unlike revolvers, which have their genesis on competition cooking shows.
“I don’t want it in our stores, and it will never be in our stores.” Make that, “ will never be in out stores IN CERTAIN AREAS.” Reports are that stores in Wyoming are selling guns. Wouldn’t be surprised if the same is occurring in other red, hunter rich, conservative, gun purchasing states.
The question to be discussed is, was it first a tool (hunting for sustenance) that became a weapon, or a weapon that became a tool?
Since cannons came before guns, I going to say that it occurred as a weapon first.
HBO will do doubt pay the price for selling out the american people
btw who owns it ???
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