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themaguffin

(3,828 posts) Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:33 PM Feb 2018

Pressure is on at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's

Customers are calling for Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's to stop selling assault-style rifles.

Dick's Sporting Goods changed its firearm policy on Wednesday, following a shooting that killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida high school.

Gun sales are a major part of Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's business, with deals such as NRA Freedom Days.

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Pressure is on at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's (Original Post) themaguffin Feb 2018 OP

I'd love to see it, but that will be about as unexpected as if they remove all the taxidermy hlthe2b Feb 2018 #1

Cabellas won't budge mikeysnot Feb 2018 #2

I doubt Cabelas will cave. They are too beholden to gun companies blake2012 Feb 2018 #3

Bass Pro Owns Cabela's now. IADEMO2004 Feb 2018 #4

They are actual outdoors sports stores; Dicks is basically a stick and ball games store. FarCenter Feb 2018 #5

Also... LP2K12 Feb 2018 #8

I doubt BassPro or Cabelas will cave. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #6

The NRA has a museum inside the Bass Pro flagship store in Missouri dalton99a Feb 2018 #7

Cabelas NRA Botany Feb 2018 #9

No longer shopping at either one. duforsure Feb 2018 #10

hlthe2b

(102,387 posts)

1. I'd love to see it, but that will be about as unexpected as if they remove all the taxidermy

Reply to themaguffin (Original post)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:35 PM

Feb 2018

(including and especially the big game exotics.... sigh....)

mikeysnot

(4,757 posts)

2. Cabellas won't budge

Reply to themaguffin (Original post)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:35 PM

Feb 2018

they have been taking corporate welfare for a long time now.

blake2012

(1,294 posts)

3. I doubt Cabelas will cave. They are too beholden to gun companies

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Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:36 PM

Feb 2018

They sell lots of outdoor stuff, but I believe guns are “the main event”. I’d love to be proven wrong, but they seem to be the Walmart/Home Depot of promoting a outdoorsman/gun lifestyle.

IADEMO2004

(5,563 posts)

4. Bass Pro Owns Cabela's now.

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Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:39 PM

Feb 2018

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

5. They are actual outdoors sports stores; Dicks is basically a stick and ball games store.

Reply to themaguffin (Original post)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:41 PM

Feb 2018

LP2K12

(885 posts)

8. Also...

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:58 PM

Feb 2018

Dick's owns Field & Stream stores.

https://www.fieldandstreamshop.com/

aikoaiko

(34,185 posts)

6. I doubt BassPro or Cabelas will cave.

Reply to themaguffin (Original post)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:49 PM

Feb 2018

They are all in. If an Assault Weapons Ban actually catches some traction, they are about to increase profits at least 2 fold.

dalton99a

(81,621 posts)

7. The NRA has a museum inside the Bass Pro flagship store in Missouri

Reply to themaguffin (Original post)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:50 PM

Feb 2018

'Nuf said

Botany

(70,592 posts)

9. Cabelas NRA

Reply to themaguffin (Original post)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 02:01 PM

Feb 2018

I bought some fishing stuff there a few years ago and they said
I would get a 25% discount for signing up for one of their credit
cards and so I did .... BTW it turns out the 25% was on future
purchases, which they did not tell me .... and after that I started
getting NRA crap in the mail.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

10. No longer shopping at either one.

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Wed Feb 28, 2018, 03:18 PM

Feb 2018

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