What Will Dick’s Do With Those Rifles and Magazines They Won’t Sell? They’re Destroying Them.

The Truth About Guns ^ | 04/15/18 | John Boch

[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.

[mylife]

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[Bender2]

Re: ... before the SS Dick’s sinks below the waves to join Gander Mountain, MC Sports, Sports Authority.

I live in Corsicana, a small Texas town of about 24,000 some 56 miles south of Dallas. I was born here 70 years ago and in my lifetime traveled around the world with long stretches on the Left Coast's La-La/Hollywood Land to come back to live out my remaining years in the Big C.

About 2004 or so they opened a Gander Mountain in Corsicana. I was rather surprised, especially when I visited it for the first time, seeing their large, well appointed store and saw the prices they expected people to buy their wares for--

They had a large gun section but all the new firearms there were priced at retail list. I'd been in the gun business off and on for some 40 years, so I knew you seldom sold one at list price. This top line pricing was the same with their hunting and sports clothing lines. $59.99 for a pair of camouflage overalls when the ones I had on on the time I had paid $17.99 on-line plus $8.50 shipping.

I fished a lot back then, so I walked around and around the fishing section, amazed by the values they placed on rods, reels, assorted fishing tackle. lures and accessories. The cheapest thing I could find they sold was a metal fish stringer like the one shown below that they priced at $2.69.

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That same fish stringer was priced 4 miles away at the Corsicana Walmart for 89 cents.

Needless to say, there was never any kind of crowd in their parking lot nor in their store. In July of 2015 the store closed and what was so surprising was that they managed to last some 10 or so years!

Have never been in a Dick's Sporting Goods. MC Sports, Sports Authority. Looks like I never will--

[Mr. Lucky]

That might have worked in the good old days, but that meanie Trump went and simplified the tax code, lowering the corporate rate to a flat 21%. Even were the cost of the intentionally destroyed goods allowed as a deduction, Dicks is on the hook for $.79 out of every Dollar.

[MtnClimber]

Why try to appease leftist pansies when they are not your customers? I say bankrupt in six months.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

19. *
Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.)
243
, at
251
(1846)
.
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole
people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear
arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be
infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the
important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so
vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Who do they think they are, Australia?

[lightman]

'Gina's

[ridesthemiles]

IF I were Trump-—I would tell the IRS that Dick’s CAN NOT deduct a single penny for inventory they deliberately destroyed.

As a life long bookkeeper/accounting person, I would have a coniption fit if I worked for such a client.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Probably could never sell them even if they changed policy. They’ve lost the market share they could have had. Now they’ll be just another REI type sporting goods store, as they learn that NO gun buyers will grace their aisles.

They could send the product back to the manufacturers and distributors for refunds minus restocking fees, but what kind of virtue signal would that be?

[ridesthemiles]

They’ll just write the loss off on their taxes and probably make money.

This is a deliberate setting up of a loss. Sort of like ARSON on your own building. With all of this publicity, perhaps the IRS won’t allow such a loss.

But-—long before they try to write such a loss off, the stockholders better step in. Their investments could be tanking soon.

[BraveMan]

I wonder how many will end up in the hands of those not in the salvage industry? Is there value in serial/tracking numbers supposedly destroyed?

[Blue Collar Christian]

“Actually, if they REALLY want to virtue signal their pure SJW, they should buy another full round of inventory from the manufactures and destroy that as well.”

Why they aren’t already doing it defies their logic.

[Kickaha]

I’d let them load it all into my canoe.

[windsorknot]

I’d let them load it all into my canoe.

I would, too, since my last canoe load of ‘em sank. ;-)

[wardaddy]

I won’t set foot in such an appropriately named store

Let’s see who runs that place........on I 65 south of Indy...Wifey driving.....her flat white in hand

Googling

Edward Stack inherited from daddy

WASP

a bit surprised

Oh well

Academy and Bass Pro and Cabelas .....same company now

Gander

Screw Dicks and Meyer and Waltons

[Kickaha]

Ya, I hate it when that happens!

[Lockbar]

I am sure there are some sheriffs departments that could use those evil AR-15’s that the dickheads are going to destroy. But that would not make for the great photo op for the media. Will they invite Camera Hogg to help cut up some guns for TV??

[Myrddin]

The cost of the inventory being destroyed will be passed through to all the other customers via higher prices. Don’t shop there for anything.

[Secret Agent Man]

I would think the manufacturers would demand unsold stock back.

[Secret Agent Man]

Never went there anyway.

But now I make a conscious point to never go there.