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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

Posted on 04/15/2018 12:41:35 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; dicks; nra; retail; secondamendment
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To: Simon Green

I predict that the newly opened Dicks/Field and Stream in Cedar Park, TX will not last the year. The Cedar Park Convention Center is less than a mile up the road and they have a huge gun show once a month. Academy Sports is just around the corner.

Piss poor SJW business decision.


21 posted on 04/15/2018 12:53:21 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: Simon Green

Dicks Sporting Goods, “Dear Congress, please make our idiotic voluntary restrictions not to sell AR 15s or sell to 18-20 year olds, so we can still keep our profits since we are out of the business for these markets.”

Right, jackasses. They want Congress to do their dirty work so other companies don’t pick up their lost profit on AR15s and selling to 20 year olds.

I hope they go bankrupt within the year. I mean out of business bankrupt, not reorganizing bankrupt. A pox on these commie idiots.


22 posted on 04/15/2018 12:54:12 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: The Toll

This should make Cabela’s Happy As Hell!!


23 posted on 04/15/2018 12:54:12 PM PDT by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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To: Simon Green

They’ll just write the loss off on their taxes and probably make money. You know the they could have returned the guns to the wholesalers for resale at another outlet.


24 posted on 04/15/2018 12:54:25 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Simon Green

I think I should contact Dick’s Sporting Goods and tell them I could come take possession of that merchandise and make sure it’s destroyed. wink wink


25 posted on 04/15/2018 12:54:31 PM PDT by slag (reelect nobody)
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To: Simon Green

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.

That`ll show those evil gun manufacturers!

.


26 posted on 04/15/2018 12:55:07 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Simon Green
From what I understand it is illegal to destroy a firearm unless you are a Licensed Gunsmith.
The ATF. has specific directions to "De-mill" a gun and the serial number must be logged into the Gunsmiths register.
Perhaps Dick's will comply, but other nimrods who take it upon themselves to save Humanity from their weapons need to face the consequences of Federal Gun Laws.
27 posted on 04/15/2018 12:57:13 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Simon Green

Hope that the landlords for these Dick’s stores have double-checked their leases.

Flakey outfit, IMHO.


28 posted on 04/15/2018 12:59:32 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Simon Green

Well they are Dicks after all.


29 posted on 04/15/2018 12:59:40 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Simon Green

Stupid and rich won’t last long.


30 posted on 04/15/2018 12:59:59 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Simon Green

“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.”

Gander Mountain has returned under the name “Gander Outdoors”, resurrected by Markus Lemonis, CEO of Camping World and star of the CNBC reality show “The Profit”. The website is up and running and many former store locations are being reopened. Conservatives should note that after the Charlottesville incident, Markus Lemonis stated publicly, “If you are OK with what Trump said, don’t shop at my businesses.” I have not visited the reopened Gander store near my home so I can’t comment on it. I’m sure there is nothing it sells I can’t buy elsewhere.

I have observed in recent years the left has become very adept at using economic extortion to force funding of the Democrat party and progressive causes. Democrat politicians, social justice warriors, and the media have perfected tactics of using the court system and unfavorable publicity to “persuade” CEO’s to tow their line or suffer the consequences. Republican politicians, as usual, are sitting by quietly while the left uses these tactics to take their donor base away. Hollywood, media companies, and Wall Street are now solidly in the progressive camp. The push is on to force multinational corporations and retailers over to the progressive side. If this trend continues it is inevitable conservative GOP politicians will soon be unable to raise the money necessary to compete with Democrat candidates in political campaigns.


31 posted on 04/15/2018 1:00:11 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Simon Green

32 posted on 04/15/2018 1:00:12 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Simon Green; onedoug

Sheer bluster. He’ll be a star at democrat cocktail parties. You can still walk into this anti gun place and buy all the 5.56 ammunition you can put in your shopping cart.
The markup on ammunition is good.


33 posted on 04/15/2018 1:01:41 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winnings)
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To: Simon Green

Stock down 6%.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=dick%27s+stock+price&form=EDNTHT&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&refig=5486db3d2e2543f1b593e0f49aad7dea&PC=DCTE&sp=2&ghc=1&qs=SC&pq=dick%27s+stock+v&sk=AS1&sc=8-14&cvid=5486db3d2e2543f1b593e0f49aad7dea&cc=US&setlang=en-US


34 posted on 04/15/2018 1:02:10 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: redcatcherb412
Loss????????????? What "loss"? They DELIBERATELY destroyed their inventory. Someone should report it to the IRS for them as a civic duty.
35 posted on 04/15/2018 1:02:17 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Vacancy)
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To: windsorknot

We’re Dick’s, and we’re determined to give our customers the shaft.


36 posted on 04/15/2018 1:02:37 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Simon Green

Half of them at least will disappear and then be reported destroyed.

L


37 posted on 04/15/2018 1:02:48 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Simon Green

Didn’t Mitt Romney finance Dick’s S.G. while at Bain Capital?


38 posted on 04/15/2018 1:02:57 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Simon Green

we will never ever spend one more cent at The Dick Store

never ever!

WTF do these crazy Dicks think they’re doing, anyway?
Just how insane can people be and still manage to drive to work and stay on a corporate payroll?


39 posted on 04/15/2018 1:03:33 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Vermont Lt

+1


40 posted on 04/15/2018 1:03:37 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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