Dick’s Sporting Goods Announces It Will Remove Guns and Hunting Products from Majority of Stores

The shooter had previously bought a shotgun at a Dick’s location, which bothered Stack.

While the shooter did not use the shotgun during his rampage, Dick’s decided to raise the minimum age of gun-buying customers to 21 and to ban “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines,” Stack told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in 2018.

“To think about the loss and the grief that those kids and those parents had, we said, ‘We need to do something,’” Stack said. “And we’re taking these guns out of all of our stores permanently.”

Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack on decision to pull assault-style rifles from their stores: "We've decided not to sell these assault weapons any longer in any of our stores…looking at those kids and those parents, it moved us all unimaginably." https://t.co/JDJSPuW8hE pic.twitter.com/0o99PU9sEk

— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 28, 2018

Stack bragged to CBS News in October that his company had destroyed $5 million worth of what he called “assault rifles” as part of its new stance against firearms and hunters.

Rather than return the guns to the manufacturer, Stack told CBS he wanted to destroy them.

“I said, ‘You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them,’” he said.

Of the remaining guns on store shelves, he added: “We’ve got the whole category under strategic review to see what we’re going to do with this category.”

Dick’s hired a number of anti-gun lobbyists in 2018 and has been attempting to force its liberal corporate policy on Americans who no longer shop in the company’s stores, according to Bloomberg.

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