Posted on 05/02/2018 7:49:00 AM PDT by narses
***’s Sporting Goods, which announced in February it would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, hired three Beltway lobbyists to lobby Congress for gun control, according to federal records reviewed by The Federalist.
The lobbying records show ***’s hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC-based government affairs firm, for “[l]obbying related to gun control.” No other policy issues were listed in the disclosure form filed by the firm. The disclosure forms show ***’s pro-gun control lobbying effort began official on April 27, 2018. The official registration form noting ***’s retention of Glover to push for gun control was filed on Monday morning.
The three lobbyists tapped by ***’s to push for gun control are listed by name in the federal disclosure forms, which are required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to be filed quarterly: Joel Johnson, who worked for both President Bill Clinton and Senate Democrat leadership; Andrew King, who worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.); and Christina Brown, a former staffer for Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).
Prior to retaining Glover Park Group to push for gun control, ***’s Sporting Goods retained the services of CSA Strategies LLC, which pushed for issues such as tax reform, cybersecurity, and patent litigation reform on behalf of ***’s during the four-year relationship between the two companies. Both firms are headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CSA is helmed by Alex Urrea, a former Republican staffer on the House Financial Services committee. ***’s relationship with CSA was terminated effective January 31, 2018, but was not made public until early April, lobbying records show.
In February, ***’s CEO announced the sporting goods chain would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, even though such sales are perfectly legal under federal law.
Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
Told the wife, no more purchases at D@#$@....If she does, it gets returned!
DKS is the stock symbol.
On 2/14/18, the day the Democrat party running Broward county government failed to protect children from the murderer Nikolas Cruz, DICKS stock was at 33.65. Currently it is selling at 32.90.
So the movement is in the right direction: the value of the stock is going down. Nice.
Dick’s just opened a store in North Little Rock, Arkansas, which in my mind is a move destined to fail. Not only do we have Academy here, which can beat the heck outta Dick’s price-wise, Arkansans are vigorously pro-2nd Amendment as a rule. I can’t wait to see it close.
What scum bag contents.
Thanks for the link - the new Gander Outdoors website is following the "Dick's" model - click the "rifles" category and all you'll see is bolt-action and lever-action models.
We should probably keep an eye on Camping World, too, given the Florida Democrat owner.
If you are comparing REI with Sportsmans, it may be because REI started and is based in Seattle, and is very Left Coast.
i never said dick’s was owned by anyone.
i was responding to the original poster’s belief that Gander Outdoors might be owned by Dick’s, which is not true. Gander Outdoors is owned by Camping World as the link I published indicates at the end.
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