Dicks!

[lisa58]

Dick’s, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles

One of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.

The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.

The announcement, made two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and staff members, is one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America in the national gun debate. It also carries symbolic weight, coming from a prominent national gunseller.

[Wwcd]

1. Link..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141999957

Great news!

[lisa58]

3. Thanks

[Amishman]

23. I thought stopped selling them years ago, after Sandy Hook

I swear I remember celebrating this before

[PJMcK]

28. From the linked article

This is not the first time Dick’s has made changes in response to a school massacre. In 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 26 people, Dick’s removed assault-style rifles from its main retail stores. But a few months later, the company began carrying the firearms at its outdoor and hunting retail chain, Field & Stream.

[lagomorph777]

30. So actually, they ARE Dicks.

[DrDan]

2. just reported on MSNBC - also raising gun sales to 21

good for Dicks

[progressoid]

4. Dicks! (I expected this to be about Trump and his pals)

[Scarsdale]

8. Me, too!

Expected an article about Ryan, McConnell and the rest of the gang of traitors. Good for Dicks. Nobody needs an assault rifle to hunt, unless they are hunting humans. In a SANE country, these weapons would never have been available to anyone who wants one.

[klook]

32. That would be "@#%&ing Dicks!" (nt)

[tavernier]

5. Mika on MJ told everyone to go there today and buy something.

Reminded panel that kids are into school athletics and their parents spend lots of bucks on their uniforms, etc. so this is a smart thing for Dicks to do.

[Sherman A1]

6. Just read The NY Times article

And very pleased to see this.

[duforsure]

7. I will shop there now.

And refuse to enter others stores that do sell assault weapons .

[handmade34]

9. let them know...

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/s/feedback

[Freedomofspeech]

12. Thank you for sharing this...

I just thanked them!

[warmfeet]

14. I just sent them a thank you

for their change in policy. I hope this spreads to many other gun sellers.

[pazzyanne]

15. Thank you for the link to Dick's Sporting Goods

I sent them a thank you supporting their moral decision to take steps for common sense gun sales. They took the best of the ideas and acted on them; taking assault type rifles and high capacity magazines off their sales floor, as well as their decision to not sell guns to anyone under the age of 21 years of age. Hopefully more stores selling assault weapons and high capacity magazines will do the same. It's nice to see sanity in action. Kudos to Dick's Sporting Goods for leading the way to sanity.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. Thanks for the link. I thanked them and placed an order.

[helpisontheway]

10. Good! I will head over this morning to purchase something. Nt

[mtngirl47]

11. I'm going to buy something at Dick's today! Dollars speak! n/t

[FM123]

13. Great news!

[crazycatlady]

16. I wonder why they didn't do this after Newtown

The gun used in that massacre was bought there.

[Iggo]

17. They're doing it now.

[hexola]

25. I think they did...

No links

[sl8]

27. They did.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/dicks-major-gun-retailer-will-stop-selling-assault-style-rifles.html?referer=

...

This is not the first time Dick’s has made changes in response to a school massacre. In 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 26 people, Dick’s removed assault-style rifles from its main retail stores. But a few months later, the company began carrying the firearms at its outdoor and hunting retail chain, Field & Stream.

This time, Mr. Stack said, the changes will be permanent.

...

More at link.

[SidDithers]

33. From another article...

We will no longer sell assault-style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles. We had already removed them from all DICK'S stores after the Sandy Hook massacre, but we will now remove them from sale at all 35 Field & Stream stores.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dicks-sporting-goods-will-stop-selling-assault-rifles-2018-2

Sid

[LiberalArkie]

19. From an article

"Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and their loved ones. But thoughts and prayers are not enough," the company wrote on Facebook. "We have to help solve the problem that's in front of us. Gun violence is an epidemic that's taking the lives of too many people, including the brightest hope for the future of America — our kids."


http://www.businessinsider.com/dicks-sporting-goods-will-stop-selling-assault-rifles-2018-2

Also

Beginning today, DICK'S Sporting Goods is committed to the following:

We will no longer sell assault-style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles. We had already removed them from all DICK'S stores after the Sandy Hook massacre, but we will now remove them from sale at all 35 Field & Stream stores.

We will no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21 years of age.
We will no longer sell high capacity magazines.

[dlk]

20. Let's All Support the Businesses that Have Taken a Stand for Safety

We can all take action to let businesses know that we support them, whether with a phone call, a letter of support to an executive or a personal thank you to a store manager. The more vocal we are, the more businesses will take a stand for safety and decency.

[MichMary]

21. This is good news,

and I'm all for it, BUT--I'm wondering if their decisions to withhold firearms from anyone 18--21 will hold up. I'm guessing it won't . . . Discrimination, and all.

When the legal drinking age was 18, if a liquor store or a bar tried not selling alcohol to the under-21 crowd, they'd have been hauled into court. Why is this different? Should it be?

[SidDithers]

22. Awesome...

Sid

[IronLionZion]

24. Call them and thank them 1-877-846-9997

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/s/help-desk

I'm sure their call centers would appreciate a friendly word of support in between the abuse/threats they are getting from NRA extremists today. They no doubt compile statistics on positive and negative calls about these issues.

[Danascot]

26. That one time my wife was looking for Dick's Sporting Goods on the internet

She typed in Dicks.com and was very surprised.

[PJMcK]

29. A question from a non-gun user

Good for Dick's. Stop selling the guns and the magazines. That's the free market in action, right?

What about the ammunition? Are the bullets for an assault rifle transferable to other weapons? Can Dick's stop selling them, too? After all, there are a lot of those guns out in the world, I'm sure.

Thanks, in advance.

[sarisataka]

35. Yes there are other guns

That shoot the .223 Remington round( the military calls it 5.56 mm). They come in single shot, bolt action, pump-action and semi-auto.

Despite the urban myth there is nothing different about this ammunition versus any other. It is not designed to Tumble, it will not turn an animal into hamburger, it will not take a deer's head off nor will it vaporize a nearly 300-pound hog.

They could choose to stop selling it but given its widespread popularity I believe that is unlikely.

[PJMcK]

37. Thanks for the explanation

So my neighbors who have AR-15s and other high powered weapons will still be able to buy their ammo at Dick's.

This is part of the reason I'm agnostic/apathetic about guns: There are so many of them in the U.S. that it seems unlikely that the genie could ever be put back in the bottle. Another reason is that just because I'm not into guns doesn't mean that others can't practice a sport safely and responsibly.

[bdamomma]

31. good

assault weapons should be used for war, not killing innocent children.

[ooky]

34. Common sense prevails. Perhaps other retailers will follow their example.

[sarisataka]

36. What's old

Is New Again

[Doodley]

38. I doubt it is legal to refuse to sell guns to people of legal age 18-20 - Repugs will probably sue