REI ..... rarely shop there .... now it’s never.
REI To Pause Purchasing From Gun Owning Outdoor Brand
http://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/rei-to-pause-purchasing-from-gun-owning-outdoor-brand/
In the wake of the recent Florida shooting, outdoor sporting goods retailer REI will indefinitely pause purchasing of brands from Vista Outdoor. This comes as the result of Vista Outdoor’s failure to issue a public statement about the shooting, “outlining a clear plan of action.”
Vista Outdoor has a large portfolio of companies under their belt including Giro, Bell, Camelbak, Camp Chef and Blackburn. Also in that portfolio is Savage Arms, a manufacturer of guns and ammunition, including “modern sporting rifles.”
REI shared the news late yesterday via their website while giving a nod to Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart for their proactive approach to gun law reform.
REI is for Subaru owning lesbians that roll up the Windows and get high on their own Quinoa farts.
I hope NEA is advising it’s members of these companies so the payback boycott can commence full throttle immediately
All this virtue-signalling makes me sick. I wonder if Dick’s Sports or any of the other retail outlets that have stopped selling “assault” rifles still sell Ruger Ranch Rifles in .223. That rifle is 99.44% identical in function as an AR-15 and certainly as lethal. It accepts magazines. It shoots the .223 round that is very very close in performance as the 5.56 M193 round. With just a little work, it can be outfitted with a Picatinny rail for the optics.
So, if anyone interacts with these retailers, ask them about a price on a Ranch Rifle and see what they say. I wonder how many are such overt hypocrites.