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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....

The jokes about laying a supply of popcorn are everywhere on the right, as the most powerful elected Democrat and the most-publicized purported symbol of the party’s future tear into each other. It’s been brewing a long time, starting with an Ocasio-Cortez-led sit-in outside Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol office a week after the bartender from the Bronx was elected to Congress, two months before she assumed office. Elle Magazine recaps the development of the squabble ever since that bad start. Along with fellow female freshmen Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Presley, and Ilhan Omar – a group that Pelosi has dubbed “the...