Dick’s CEO Brags About Destroying $5 Million Worth Of Guns

By Tom Knighton

Dick’s Sporting Goods has been on the s*** list for gun rights supporters for a while. While they sold firearms quite readily, they were never really supporters of gun rights. It was almost like they were looking for an opportunity to cut ties with the gun community. After Parkland, they formally ended any AR-15 sales through any of their stores, including the Field & Stream storefronts.

Yet they haven’t stopped selling guns.

Well, that might not be quite accurate. They haven’t stopped trying to sell guns. I doubt they sell all that many of them.

Despite that, CEO Ed Stack has had to make sure to do a little virtue-signaling so the anti-gunners remember he’s on their side.

Ed Stack, the chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, said in a new interview that his company destroyed $5 million worth of semi-automatic rifles after removing them from store shelves last year.

Dick’s stopped selling AR-15s after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 but took it a step further after the 2018 Parkland high school shooting, raising the gun purchase age to 21 and banning the sale of high-capacity magazines and assault-style rifles. It was a highly controversial move that …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms