Dick’s Sporting Goods Solidifies Anti-Gun Reputation

By Tom Knighton

Dick’s Sporting Goods made its opinion very clear following Parkland. It stopped selling AR-15s and decided people between the ages of 18-20 wouldn’t be allowed to buy any guns in its stores. It got a lot of flak for that, and for good reason. First, it virtue signaled that it’s the “good” kind of company.

For another, its age policy is blatant age discrimination, and it’s facing a lawsuit along those lines right now.

But that’s not enough for Dick’s. It seems it feels the need to hire gun control lobbyists.

Dick’s Sporting Goods, which announced in February it would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, hired three Beltway lobbyists to lobby Congress for gun control, according to federal records reviewed by The Federalist.

The lobbying records show Dick’s hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC-based government affairs firm, for “[l]obbying related to gun control.” No other policy issues were listed in the disclosure form filed by the firm. The disclosure forms show Dick’s pro-gun control lobbying effort began official on April 27, 2018. The official registration form noting Dick’s retention of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms