Lawmakers in 2 states ask iconic sporting goods retailer to curb gun policies
By Chris Eger
Founded in 1938, Kittery Trading Post is well-known in New England and sells everything from guns to kayaks both locally and online. It’s not the kayaks some are arguing over. (Photo: KTP)
A group of Democrats in Maine and New Hampshire want Kittery Trading Post to stop selling “assault-style” rifles and eliminate gun sales to those under age 21.
Six New Hampshire state lawmakers penned a letter to the historic retailer, whose 90,000 sq. ft. flagship store is in Kittery, Maine, near the shared border between the two New England states. In it, they ask KTP to emulate examples set earlier this year by Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods, who adopted similar changes to their own gun sales procedures. The New Hampshire group was joined by three corresponding Democrats in the Maine House who echoed their message in a rally at Kittery’s town hall on Monday.
“When the issues surrounding gun violence in the aftermath of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida erupted, and students were asking for action so they could feel safe, we naturally assumed that a business such as the Kittery Trading Post (KTP) would respond and take meaningful action,” said the letter, asking that
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nightcrawler71 July 4th, 2018 at 2:06 pm
The Liberal Dimocrat Responsible for Violence in Our Schools is the One and Only obama. He’s gave us the School to Graveyard Pipeline in Place of School to Prison Pipeline(Save A Thug), but it seems the Liberals and Dimocrat have Put the Blame on Law Abiding American Loving Citizens again. The Liberal “It’s not my Fault and You Owe Me” has been taught to any and all that want a Free Ride.