Dick’s adds rules for gun sales, bans ARs, hi-cap mags

By Daniel Terrill

(Photo: Dick’s via Youtube)
Inspired by the student-led movement to reform gun laws, retail chain Dick’s Sporting Goods announced Wednesday that it will no longer sell guns to buyers under the age of 21 nor will it carry “assault-style rifles,” high capacity magazines or bump stocks.
“We have heard you. The nation has heard you,” Edward Stack, Dick’s chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement to students across the nation and victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida who have been vocal about their support for gun control following the shooting.
On Valentine’s Day, the gunman walked into the high school and opened fire with an AR-15. In about six minutes, he murdered 17 people and injured another 14. The shooter was later arrested without incident about two miles away from the school.
Stack explained that none of the rules or laws in place prevented the 19-year-old shooter from buying a shotgun from a Dick’s store in November 2017. “It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting. But it could have been,” he added.
“Clearly this indicates on so many levels that the systems in place are not effective to protect our kids and

Source: Guns.com