Posted March 13, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

There’s a certain hypocrisy in Dick’s Sporting Goods looking to profit off of the very group they demonize with their anti-gun stance, but that’s precisely what they’ve been doing for the last year. On top of make a decision to not carry AR-15s in any of their stores–they still carried them in their Field & Stream locations–they started working to lobby Congress to make it so no one else could sell them either.

With all their anti-gun nonsense, they started losing money. Now, they’re looking to get out of the gun game entirely.

After the Parkland shooting in February 2018, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it was making some big changes involving gun sales. The company imposed an age requirement of 21 for the purchase of a firearm, banned the sale of “assault rifles” at its subsidiary Field & Stream stores (it had already banned them from Dick’s years earlier), and banned “high capacity magazines” at all its stores. Within weeks, the company began to see a drop in sales, and in months the situation was bad enough for CEO Ed Stack to start openly blaming some of his company’s financial struggles on its high-profile gun control stance.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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