By NRA-ILA On June 4-5, the annual Yale Mayors College & CEO Summit was held in New York City. The theme of this year’s CEO Summit was “Trumpeting the Issues without Becoming the Issue: Selective Use of CEO Voice.” Making clear that much of the event was about corporate virtue signaling strategy, “Session 2” on the June […]
Dick’s CEO Ed Stack, who took over his father’s company, has embraced virtue-signaling as a marketing strategy. Ed’s leadership hasn’t gone well for him, his company or shareholders. Indeed, as Stack has pursued gun control as a corporate policy to promote his company since the Parkland shooting, competitors have happily taken Dick’s gun, ammo and […]
One analyst thinks Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack has shown other big retailers exactly what will happen to them if they’re perceived as anti-gun. Analysts think Dick’s has sent the message that it’s moving away from firearms sales, and those sales are moving elsewhere. “All Dick’s has done to themselves is alienate their customer […]
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 […]
Battle Born Munitions (BBM), an international supplier of ammunition as well as duty products for governments, is demanding $5 million in damages from Dick’s Sporting Goods, accusing Dick’s of breach of contract, fraudulent promises, and “manipulat[ing] retail markets for its benefit and to the disadvantage of vendors and consumers.” In the filing, BBM asserts that Dick’s failed […]
We’ll do our best to contain our glee, but we have German blood in our veins and schadenfreude is very a real thing. We apologize in advance. All of that said, Dicks Sporting Goods today reported a larger-than-expected drop in same store sales and their stock has taken a dive as a result. What’s more, analysts […]
How to Significantly Reduce School Shootings Right Now, by the Time School Starts in the Fall My objective is to help reduce the occurrence of mass school shooting, while keeping the Second Amendment intact. So, in order of priority, here is what must be done at the local and state levels. (Another federal law is […]
School shooting video game removed online after backlash Someone not only thought this was a good idea, but bankrolled its development and marketing . . . A Seattle-area company has removed a school shooting video game from its online platform following widespread backlash. The Active Shooter video game was pulled days before it was to be released […]
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 […]
‘Silence the guns’ urges UN disarmament chief as global week of action begins Remind us again, why does the UN still exist? . . . “Every day, hundreds of lives are lost due to gun violence worldwide,” the UN Disarmament Affairs chief, Izumi Nakamitsu, said in her message at the start of the Global Week […]
At Ruger’s annual shareholder meeting today, shareholders voted on a proposal pushed by a group of dissident shareholders — led by nuns, among others — that would require the publicly-traded firearms maker to “detail its plans to monitor violence associated with their guns and develop safer products.” As the New York Times reports, At the […]
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 […]
