This from bizjournals.com: According to CEO Ed Stack, 62 employees quit working for Dick’s Sporting Goods over the retailer’s decision to stop selling assault-style weapons, announced in February. No biggie, as far as Stack is concerned. You have to break a few eggs if you want to make an anti-gun rights omelet. We anticipated that there […]
As the media onslaught pushing ever more severe restrictions on gun ownership and sales continues, the gun culture is fighting back. When Dick’s Sporting Goods stopped the sale of modern sport and utility rifles, especially AR-15s, a Houston area gun store and range took the opportunity to proclaim its independence and support for Second Amendment […]
It’s officially becoming a trend. First Springfield Armory announced that they wouldn’t do business with the assiduously anti-gun rights Dick’s Sporting Goods or their Field & Stream subsidiary. Now, MKS Supply has also decided that they won’t sell their Hi-Point, or Inland Manufacturing branded firearms to the two retailers either. Any bets as to who […]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s trade association and lobbying arm, has announced that Dick’s Sporting Goods’ decisions to end sales of AR-pattern rifles and lobby Congress for more gun control legislation are “detrimental to the best interests of the Foundation” (not to mention America’s gun owners). As a result, the NSSF has […]
Uproar has ensued since Dick’s Sporting Goods announced they would no longer sell guns to customers under the age of 21. They would furthermore no longer carry AR-15 pattern rifles (or any other similar semi-automatic rifle) nor high-capacity (whatever that means) magazines. The policy is also being enacted at Field and Stream, the outdoor-themed subsidiary […]
