Reeling from lost business for its anti-gun stance, Dick’s has decided to go all in and ban guns from being sold at its stores. The Free Beacon reports:
Dick’s Sporting Goods said during an earnings call on Tuesday that it plans to remove firearms and ammunition from 125 of its stores in the coming year and will remove them from more stores over the next few years.
The company said the 10 stores they had removed guns from in the fall had performed up to their expectations and that they now plan to remove guns from 125 of their 858 stores nationwide over the next six months. They said they likely would continue removing guns from the rest of their stores over a period of several years.
“We look at this as a multiyear initiative,” Edward W. Stack, Dick’s chairman and chief executive officer, told investors during the call. “The 10 stores we were very pleased with, we’re expanding it to 120-some stores. We’ll see how that goes. If it goes as well as expected, we would probably take another batch of stores next year.”
Dick’s, one of the nation’s largest gun retailers, has, by their own account, alienated many customers and manufacturers within the gun industry over the last few years. Their trouble in the industry began after they announced in response to the Sandy Hook shooting that they would no longer sell certain semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15. Within a year, the company reversed course when it opened the firearms-centric Field and Stream store chain. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, the company reversed themselves again and announced they would not sell AR-15s or similar rifles. In addition, the company instituted a policy of age discrimination aimed at adults between the ages of 18 and 21 and hired lobbyists to advocate for new gun-control legislation.
It remains to be seen if the lost business from hunters and outdoorsmen can be made up with new liberal business.
The current anti gun fiasco that Dick’s has enrapped itself in is a prime opportunity for the public to make a clear statement of disapproval. Of course, any business can cease offering some particular item or items for sale if they so choose. By the same token, the people can express their dissatisfaction, assuming that they are dissatisfied, by passing the offending merchant by, shopping elsewhere. Let’s see how the public reacts.
Hey, maybe the sales of jogging shoes and bicycles will make up for the lost gun sales—–NOT!
When I was born (12/25/1928) my parents named me RICHARD.
Naturally, even the school teachers finally got around to calling me
DICK. I’ll still continue to use the nickname (being 90 years old you
get kinda’ used to some things). My only hope is that the name
‘DICK’ is his SURname.
I will never set foot in a Dicks sporting goods store again! I am also a proud member of the NRA! Dicks is nuts!
They need to be boycott in every state in the USA.I know a lot of democrats hunt to and they know this is all on pelosey so what u gonna do.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds…
If i had stock in that liberal run mess I would immediately dump it, the place is on the way out and nothing can stop that now! How could the board of directors be so stupid to let the leadership kill the stores? But good riddance there are more patriot run stores available!
I no longer patronize Dicks because of the gun issue
Dicks is plural … I bet there isn’t 1 dick in the entire company. Just a bunch of panseys.
Worse than that. I have a friend who works at one of their stores. Black people come in a steal items & the manager of that store is black & tells the employees to overlook it. Those same people who stole the items, come back with the items & get a refund, not having a receipt of any kind. The black manager allows this to happen. Talk about stupid & cutting off the hand that feeds you —- I don’t know how he got to be a manager & I know he certainly has no brains. If he did, he could know that he won’t have a job for long, because they place will be out of business. It sounds to me like to dumb management hires dumb people like themselves. I’ve never been in their stores & would never go into any of them now. It’s just mind explosive to think these idiots don’t have a clue they are closing their doors, day by day.
I don’t feel there are any words that can describe this type of stupidity.
You got that right!
DITTO!!
Dick’s is being a real “Dick”…..no more Dick’s for me!!
I haven’t bought anything from them since they chopped up their AR15s. I hope they go bankrupt most of what they sell is junk anyway. Cabelas has it all over that little Sporting Goods store.
I thank Dick’s for stupidly turning me on to other better, cheaper, gun and ammo suppliers
Cheaper than dirt.com. Great selection and prices.
It’s their business and they can run it as they see fit. However, I vote with my feet and wallet. My feet won’t go near Dick’s and my wallet will stay in my pocket.
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It’s my understanding that Alexandria’s brother entered her to tryout for a “role”. She tends bars but is actually a wannabe actress. A group affiliated with Georgie-boy Soros was running this operation. She got the “role” of NY Rep to Washington. She is a total puppet for them. You can easily tell when she goes off script how uninformed she is. Yet they prep her constantly hence she brings up all this crap about Ronald Reagan recently. She was not yet born when Reagan held office. They just feed her all this stuff and out she goes, “acting”. Very SICK treason. Can’t wait for all the orange suits. There are sooo many who need them. From Barry right down the line of lying traitorous Libs.
What does this have to do with Dick’s and deciding to stop selling AR-15’s?
Yes, what does it have to do with stupid Dick’s?
Newspaper headlines will read, ” Dicks going out of business.” That’s what you get for listening to socialist democrats!
Walked into the local Dick’s once or twice, never saw anything to set them above (or even equal) to a myriad of other sport’s-person outlets in the area.
No loss when they fade away here.
Dick’s Sporting Goods can go suck bilge water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe they should go vegan food.
There has to more to this story, then what we know today. Does Congresswoman Pelosi have shares or own this company?
dicks store in springfield ohio will be closed as of this week, they spent a fortune tearing down old bulding and now running with their tail between their lega, good!
I’d never heard of them until a year ago. Been hunting for 63 years, but in my neck of the woods, all the gun sellers are American Patriots.
That is why I would never buy another product from Dick’s. They have seen the hit they took in AZ already I guess they just want to close that new multi million dollar building they just opened about 3 years ago in AZ. I hope they go belly up before they can remove the guns from their stores. If they think that the sportsman will stand for their crap they have another thing coming. Just like Yeti they are now struggling and will be going under soon. They can both stick their heads between their legs a kiss the BUTTS goodbye.
I never bought a firearm from Dicks, but have bought ammo and a few accessories. I will never set foot in Dicks again. Also they are still selling Yeti coolers. Another reason not to patronize the anti-2nd amendment store.
One can only hope they will be having a race to the bottom to see which one can go out of business fastest.
I hope they are required to shut their doors, with these stupid decisions.
Never much patronized Dick’s prior to their ongoing anti gun fiasco. Certainly not going to patronize them now.
Dick!s has seen me for the last time. They have competitors and have changed their business model to align itself with the agenda of the socialists- that party that used to be called Democrats
The declassified record of the last century shows that the democrat party has been a democommunist party for a very long time.
The AR-15 did not kill those kids at Sandy Hook. It is an inanimate object that can’t fire a round without some outside source. I can leave my loaded AR-10 on any table in my house and it will not animate itself to fire 1 round. Democrats have no idea how the real world works. All the see is unlimited power. We need a 2020 landslide for President Trump, just like the landslide that Reagan had
I agree 100%d, Morgan Freeman said. In Africa some idiot shoots a lion, and i’t the shooter’s fault… In America, one person shoots another, and it’s the gun’s fault. These democrats are so stupid they are creating votes for President trump, you (we) well get the landslide.
When the Field and Stream Store opened at our local Dick’s people including me were thrilled! It was a toy store for adults. Their current stance is unacceptable to me and many others. Dick’s followed all local and Fed laws. They even I serted their own waiting period. At least at my store, you bought a gun, filled out the NICS form and were told to come back in 1-2 days to give them time to process the form. By refusing to sell guns after investing so much to be a responsible gun dealer all they have accomplished is to discriminate against a huge class of people out of concern for a VERY FEW, in their case 1 sale that ended up being used in a “mass shooting”. They represented what was the ideal in background checks and still supporting our Second Amendment . Now they have ended both! Certainly it’s their choice as it is my choice not to patronize Dick’s or Field and Stream ever again!
It is also my choice to cut up the credit card that they issued.
Haven’t set foot in a Dick’s s since their cowardice with the AR 15’s and raising the buying age to 21. I will never buy anything from any Dick’s. I discourage anyone who asks about shopping there.
I could not agree more.
Never have shopped there now I never will.
I dont shop at Dicks anymore and never will. Their company name says it all.
I’m not sure there are enough badminton players to base a business plan on, but that’s up to the dickheads that apparently run the place. I wish them good luck in bankruptcy court.
America does not need another anti-gun, anti-America store to help with progressive ways. I hope they close all of their stores.
I’m done with Dick’s. Well, I already was after knowing their ‘Anti Gun’ stance. But this seals it. I will recommend to all of my friends that they do likewise if they haven’t already.
Kiss Dick’s GOODBYE!
Whenever a business relents to pressure from socialists liberals, a.k.a. Communists, instead of running their business to make a profit for their loyal customers, it always becomes a bad business decision. If Dick’s wants to be social warriors instead of a successful Capitalist enterprise, they need to shut their doors or sell the business to real business entrepreneurs, and watch how successful they could have been.
Share holders should fire them all, and take their investment else where. Let them SINK like a lead balloon.
They need to change the name to “Dickless” Sporting goods, it would fit their new image of being ball less.
The Girlymen libs are afraid of guns so let them sell Girlymen clothes and see how long they last
Don’t have a Dick’s anywhere near me, so have never been to one…and never will!
These DUMB ASSES might as well as close ALL STORES because they will now start going down the DRAIN. They have FAILED just like the LIBERALS have failed moving to Socialism.
I stopped shopping with the last move. They can do whatever they want but they will never get another dollar from me. It makes a lot of business sense to alienate at least 50% of your customers.