Dick’s Sporting Goods signals virtue, drops all “AR”-pattern rifles from its inventory, accompanied with a tsunami of smug.<\/p>\n
Shooters groups promise a boycott.<\/p>\n
The boycott works:<\/p>\n
Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods took a firm, anti-gun stance. Oh, it\u2019ll still sell guns, but it\u2019ll only sell \u201capproved\u201d guns, the kind that anti-gunners generally pretend are fine. At least until they get around to demanding those be banned too.<\/p>\n
When Dick\u2019s made its announcement that it would not sell AR-15s at any of its stores going forward and that it would discriminate against legal adults looking to buy long guns, gun rights advocates called for a boycott. It was answered. So much so that the company has been reeling from the lost revenues.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s now to the point that the company is considering cutting out all of its hunting merchandise.<\/p>\n
The CEO for the sporting goods retailer said Thursday that the company was doing a trial run in 10 locations, pulling all hunting merchandise and replacing it with other items.<\/p>\n
\u201cThough it\u2019s too early to discuss performance, we\u2019re optimistic these changes will better serve the athletes in these communities,\u201d Dick\u2019s CEO Edward Stack said in a conference call, as reported by JSOnline.<\/p>\n
The reason for the new approach may be because sales in that department have plummeted across all of Dick\u2019s 732 stores.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecific to hunt, in addition to the strategic decisions made regarding firearms earlier this year, sales continued to be negatively impacted by double-digit declines in hunt and electronics,\u201d said Lee Belitsky, chief financial officer.<\/p>\n
By \u201cstrategic decisions\u201d Belitsky is referring to the company\u2019s announcement in the wake of the February massacre in Parkland, Florida that it would no longer sell guns to adults under the age of 21 and that it would not only stop selling but destroy its existing inventory of modern sporting rifles at its 35 Field & Stream locations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The grabbers can buy o=all the media they want – but they don’t control the market.<\/p>\n
Which is, of course, why they’re trying to destroy the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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