Posted on 04/15/2018 12:41:35 PM PDT by Simon Green
Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced plans to destroy the modern sporting rifles, magazines and accessories they pulled from their shelves in recent weeks. That’s the word from a corporate spokesperson asked about pallets of inventory removed from displays nationwide. The sporting goods dealer’s mouthpiece said the firearms would be destroyed at regional distribution centers and the parts sent to a salvage yard for recycling.
Dick’s made the arbitrary policy change, deciding against selling America’s favorite rifle along with standard capacity magazines and other accessories amid a frenzy of post-Parkland corporate virtue signaling. The beleaguered company‘s CEO, Ed Stack, also decided the company would also arbitrarily discriminate against 18-20-year-old (now former) customers wishing to purchase firearms or ammunition.
In fact, he went further than that. He urged politicos to pass more gun control restrictions, too. Here’s an excerpt of his long-winded corporate suicide note as reprinted in USA Today.
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. We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
At the same time, we implore our elected officials to enact common sense gun reform and pass the following regulations:
Ban assault-style firearms
Raise the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21
Ban high capacity magazines and bump stocks
Require universal background checks that include relevant mental health information and previous interactions with the law
Ensure a complete universal database of those banned from buying firearms
Close the private sale and gun show loophole that waives the necessity of background checks
We ran a story on the troubles Dick’s stores (and their Field & Stream outlets) are having had filling all that freshly-vacant shelf space.
Ed Stack clearly doesn’t like guns. Or gun owners. He seems bent on driving Dick’s into the dirt as he panders to America’s gun control industry.
Stack seems determined to keep up appearances in order to rub elbows with other gun control luminaries like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and their ilk. Toward that end, Stack found some spare change in his couch and dropped $300,000 of his own cash on a Democrat “House Majority PAC” in 2016. George Soros dropped a cool million on the group the same year.
In other words, Ed Stack doesn’t need Dick’s in order to live well.
However, plenty of his employees rely on the financial viability of Dick’s to pay their bills. With leadership like Stack’s, Dick’s workers have cause to worry.
Dick’s sales are headed south. The stock price isn’t far above its five-year low and lost 5.52% on Friday the 13th alone. Those drawing a paycheck from Stack’s ailing company might want to find new employment quickly, before the SS Dick’s sinks below the waves to join Gander Mountain, MC Sports, Sports Authority.
“The sporting goods dealer’s mouthpiece said the firearms would be destroyed at regional distribution centers and the parts sent to a salvage yard for recycling.”
I’ll bet a few of those rifles and parts will be marked as “destroyed” right after they leave the building under some guy’s coat.
ROFL There is not, however, a store named “breasts.”
Break that place and drive their asses out of business, like we did to Kmart back in the 90s when they cozied up to the Klinton Crime Regime and Rosie O’Donnel.
We can be “Dicks” too, when we need to be. And now is the time to be.
Not a tax expert, but will taxpayers will subsidize this? Is Dick’s allowed to write off this self-destroyed inventory as a loss? Will they be able to claim external harm to their reputation as a reason for future declining sales and then deduct that too?
“Common sense gun reform...”
...because the first 30,000 gun laws weren’t enough.
Virtue Signaling jerks. I hope they go under.
To me, having Dick’s chop out their gun inventory is like having gender reassignment surgery. They ought to change their name while they’re at it.
Didn’t see your post, but that’s exactly what I was thinking.
Kum & Go! We used to live where a Kum & Go (Krause/Gentle Corp.) was the default convenience store (before the Casey’s stores became ubiquitous). Kum & Go didn’t seem remarkable to us after a while, but whenever guys from the east coast came to town for a business meeting, they would spot the store and go into a state of high hilarity while taking pictures of each other standing in front of the sign.
“I hope all their crappy stores burn to the ground with their corporate “leadership” trapped inside.
‘eff them.”
The Dick’s I’ve seen...wait, that doesn’t sound right. Let me rephrase....the Dick’s stores I have been in seemed more like Gap, Old Navy or some other overpriced Chinese clothier that had a half-assed firearms section in the back. If I want clothes and guns in the same store I’ll go to Cabelas or Bass Pro.
Unintentionally apropos.
Obscure accounting reference there. Nicely done!
Send them to Texas. Obama did it and they sold like hotcakes then were brought back across the border and used on American citizens. “Fast and Furious”
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts/index.html
rwood
Will the recent tax reform bill allow DKS to write off the hardware and/or reap some obscure tax benefit?
Not that it was this President’s intention, but just wondering.
“ROFL There is not, however, a store named “breasts.”
Ulp...busted! By the way, just how does one misspell “Dick’s”...hmmmm?
Before Dick’s went into virtue signalling mode they had a big sale on the Mossberg Model 88 for $199. I was lucky enough to get one of the last ones in stick. Yep, pissing off your customer base is great for business.
I don’t know if Dicks ever sold guns like AR-15, but I doubt it. They are really a clothing and sports apparel store now, with some sporting equipment thrown in for decoration.
As such, I think its a completely empty PR gesture
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