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Dick’s CEO Says They Destroyed $5M Worth Of Assault Rifles
The Washington Times ^ | October 7, 2019 | Alicia F. Luke

Posted on 10/07/2019 7:21:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack told CBS News that his company destroyed $5 million worth of “assault-style rifles” to keep them out of private hands. Ed Stack told CBS News during an interview that the millions of dollars worth of inventory was turned into scrap metal. “I said, ‘You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them.”

The Hill: The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods says that after the company made the decision to no longer sell assault-style rifles, more than $5 million worth of the weapons were destroyed.

In an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday, Ed Stack said following the decision last year to stop offering assault-style rifles, the question of what to with the remaining inventory lingered.

“I said, ‘You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them,'” Stack said, adding that the company turned $5 million worth of the weapons into scrap metal.

Dick’s made the decision to stop carrying the rifles following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 dead and reignited the national conversation surrounding gun control.

“We found out that we sold this kid a shotgun,” Stack said. “That’s when I said, ‘We’re done.'”

(Excerpt) Read more at thewashingtonsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; alreadyposted; banglist; dicks; dopyedems; edstack; nra; retail; secondamendment
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“We found out that we sold this kid a shotgun,” Stack said. “That’s when I said, ‘We’re done.’”

So why didn’t he destroy all the shotguns?


21 posted on 10/07/2019 7:35:19 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: wjcsux
Don't be a Dick

The new horse-face president is begging for some stiff medicine.

22 posted on 10/07/2019 7:36:50 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: wjcsux

That’s sounds like a load of crap to me. It would have been cheaper to just send them back to the manufacturer.


23 posted on 10/07/2019 7:39:12 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

places i will never shop include ...


24 posted on 10/07/2019 7:42:39 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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To: eastexsteve
"send them back to the manufacture"

RTV

Return To Vendor.

25 posted on 10/07/2019 7:48:07 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Chode
I'm a little suspicious myself.

I suspect that the cost is way inflated, and that the weapons might have been re-directed or returned, and that since the alleged CEO doesn't know what means "assault rifle", that we could be looking at a high vis con.

We want proof, meaning makes, models, and numbers (not a few pics). .

26 posted on 10/07/2019 7:50:00 PM PDT by Seaplaner
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To: richardtavor

Resignation? Nope. This guy needs to be fired.


27 posted on 10/07/2019 7:51:30 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah! You win a cupie doll!!! Doesn’t matter how many you buy and destroy, it just keeps the gun manufacturers in business dude!


28 posted on 10/07/2019 7:52:04 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: Dogbert41

By golly, you’re right!

$5 million of guns that just evaporated so Ruger got paid for them and gets to make more!


29 posted on 10/07/2019 7:53:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (We cannot spare this man. He fights.)
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To: wjcsux

Don’t be a Dick’s Sporting Goods stockholder.

If I need anything they might have, I always try to find it somewhere else.

Get woke, go broke.


30 posted on 10/07/2019 7:58:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Dick’s CEO Says They Destroyed $5M Worth Of Assault Rifles”

And where did they manage to acquire $5M worth of “Assault Rifles,” since they are largely illegal to possess or acquire.


31 posted on 10/07/2019 8:02:01 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Vacancy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He's worth a billion dollars. So he has his own private security (with guns) no doubt. What does he care if you can't defend yourself against criminals?


32 posted on 10/07/2019 8:04:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Off the Street”? Why would they be “on the street” if they were legally purchased with full background check cleared? They would only be “on the street” if Dick’s was irresponsible.

Stupid a@@ argument they are “cleaning up the streets”. Anything but— they are endangering people who would want a semi-automatic rifle for self defense.

And ... idiot boy at Dick’s... GET IT RIGHT. You NEVER ever sold an “assault-style rifle” which would be... a “style” like an assault rifle— which is a SELECT FIRE Machine Gun. If you ever did sell a MACHINE GUN you would be in crap loads of trouble without the correct Class IV permitting and licensing. So— you NEVER had an assault rifle in your inventory— EVER!!!


33 posted on 10/07/2019 8:04:49 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: richardtavor

“If I were a stockholder, I would force a vote for his resignation.”

So, $38 is all that is keeping him from office?


34 posted on 10/07/2019 8:08:18 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Seaplaner

100%... coulda donated them to local PD’s and taken a tax write off, this way nothing

and like has been said, i’d be pizzed if i was a stockholder


35 posted on 10/07/2019 8:10:28 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a Dick


36 posted on 10/07/2019 8:10:38 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Today I went to Academy to keep my money out of Dick’s hands.


37 posted on 10/07/2019 8:14:27 PM PDT by odawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m waiting to see the film of the destruction and the 12 conservative witnesses .... otherwise it is pure BS.


38 posted on 10/07/2019 8:15:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You know what???? Kiss my a@l@.......


39 posted on 10/07/2019 8:21:08 PM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How can people be so stupid?

The bad guys will have these guns. Just know that.

So we can’t have them to defend our family?

Who made our small children and wives hostage to guys like this dick?


40 posted on 10/07/2019 8:22:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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