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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDICKS Sporting Goods To Stop Carrying AR-15 Style Assault Rifles
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Just listening to KATU 2 out of Portland Or. and they just announced that Dicks will no longer carry assault rifles effective the start of the sales day tomorrow.
Maybe the outrage is catching.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)AllyCat
(16,236 posts)Makes me not want to buy anything there again, but glad to see they are doing this. Hope it's for more than a few weeks of PR and then back to the arming of the militias.
former-republican
(2,163 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)LeftInTX
(25,610 posts)WastedSaint
(53 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)BainsBane
(53,093 posts)Aren't they a major gun seller?
Anyway, very glad to see this news.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I just confirmed one.
BainsBane
(53,093 posts)former-republican
(2,163 posts)I saw it on another board but who knows.
It is crazy when you really think about it.
Shopping list
Milk
Bread
chicken
shampo
Baby clothes
Oh yea
And an AR15
all under one roof
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Trolling sites.
Should check fr for reaction to rumor one confirmed.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)The company, based in Pennsylvania, has not put out any formal statement about ending sales of AR-15 style rifles. It is uncertain if the policy change will affect all of its 511 stores. WW has asked Dick's for comment but has not received a response.
But WW called a total of five Dick's stores in Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho, and asked if it was possible to buy AR-15 style guns. Sales clerks said that the stores either no longer carried the rifles or had suspended sales.
"Unfortunately, we are no longer carrying those," said a Dick's sales associate in Washington state. Asked when the store discontinued sales of guns like the Bushmaster .223, he replied: "Honestly, about three hours ago."
http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-29567-dicks_sporting_goods_clerks_say_their_stores_have_stopped_selling_semi_automatic_rifles_in_wake_of_m.html
Cha
(297,809 posts)with as many as 11 bullet holes in one and no less than 3 in the other little bodies, has pierced through to many people's souls. People who are in a position to do something about it.
Then there are those who are blaming the victims because they have no soul.
tblue
(16,350 posts)How did they get that name?
Lucky Luciano
(11,264 posts)Dicks bought Chicks....or as one might say "Dick's for Chick's" when company A buys company B. the headline was literally written that way.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)The move was made out of respect for the victims and families of last week's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting "during this time of national mourning," the store said in a statement Tuesday morning.
"We continue to extend our deepest sympathies to those affected by this terrible tragedy," the statement said.
It was unclear how long the store will keep the suspension in place for the guns, known as 'modern sporting rifles.'
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/justice/connecticut-dicks-guns/
Personally, I'm smelling an attempt to mitigate the bad PR from their name being associated with the killer in any way. It's not as if they're pulling the high capacity clips off their shelves too, or anything.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Mean magazines.
Temp could very well mean permanent. And they are shipping stock to manufacturer.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)I know a group I used to be active with has been after them for years to just stop selling the high capacity magazines. They were not in the least receptive to the idea. However, maybe now they've really had a change of heart. I want to believe they have.
I think it was CNN's use of the word "suspension" that threw me into cynical mode like that.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Just went trolling the inter-tubes at gun sites
triplepoint
(431 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:50 PM - Edit history (1)
I was in a Big 5 "Sporting Goods" store yesterday looking for rain repellent spray for my shoes. Big 5 had the assault weapons for sale...I stared at the firearms on the wall behind the counter, and noticed one guy lusting after one assault weapon/rifle in particular. He was like Gollum in "Lord of the Rings." He saw me staring at him, and quickly walked away as if he were embarrassed that I saw him lusting after a gun. That firearms lusting look of his was unforgettable...a sickness...a mental illness. What are assault weapons doing in a "sporting goods" store? How "sporting" is an assault weapon in a deer (for example) hunting scenerio anyway? This has got to stop. Big 5 and Cabella's (and others) need to know that selling assault weapons is just not going to be tolerated anymore.
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I am so frustrated with our slowly-evolving/quickly devolving species. We have to go through so much hardship before we EVEN consider changing our ways. Good thing we're on a planet that is tucked away in an obscure location of the Milky Way Galaxy!
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JohnnyRingo
(18,665 posts)I'm not saying management is smart, but selling them now would be a bad financial move for anyone. The ban would be on future production only, and every pre-2013 rifle could double in value overnight. Pristine unfired rifles like those Dick's has in inventory would command the highest price on the open market.
This happened in the '90s too, but it's just possible Dick's is showing compassion and doing this out of social concern instead of profit.
Remember, corporations are people too, my friend.
...either that, or they're cold blooded money machines... I forget which.
OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)although Im glad they are doing it. maybe other gun dealers will follow suit.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)But perhaps they're getting the message.
We need ACT UP style protests in front of gun manufacturers and retail stores.
sellitman
(11,608 posts)I hope all other Major chain stores follow suit. Also I hope this ban includes the bullets.
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progressoid
(50,000 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)tilsammans
(2,549 posts)I did.
https://www.facebook.com/dickssportinggoods?ref=ts&fref=ts
Most of the posts are from the usual gang of gun wackos. Threatening boycotts, etc.
It would be nice to see more posts that express the opposite POV.
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