Thank you to Dick's Sporting Goods.

did a great piece and interview with the CEO this past Sunday. Kudos to him.

It was excellent.

We take our allies where they come

They should have destroyed all the shotguns too.

How many others would follow?

I applaud their decision on assault weapons.

But a huge number of Democratic Party members own and hunt with shotguns. Just like their great grandfathers did. I actually hunt with my grandfathers shotgun. But I am concerned that the 60 year old gun is nearing the end of its safe life. If I need to replace it Dicks will be the first place as I look. As it now is when I need sporting clothes. Before the made their statement on assault guns they really weren’t on my radar. Or no more than other stores. Now they are my first choice.

That's why.

The shooter used an assault type rifle at Parkland.

Every recent mass shooting in the US has been with an assault rifle except Virginia Tech which was with a large capacity semiautomatic handgun. Which are actually is responsible for most gun deaths in the US.

But getting rid of shotguns! We would lose all 50 states with bullshit politics like that. You ban shotguns you ban hunting.

Thankful that will never happen.

He speaks of the killer using a shotgun purchased from Dicks sporting goods. It's right there in the OP.

If he is incorrect, so am I.

he did buy a shotgun at a Dick's, but that was not the weapon that was used in the shooting.

an assault weapon sold by Dick's is used in mass murder.

So he bought a weapon there but didn't use it. Well I apologize for making an inference. I wonder how the company that DID sell him the weapon handled it?

Interesting catalyst, and it's good he destroyed all the assault weapons. Still he should have destroyed all the shotguns too.

Even if it wasn't used this time. How is that CEO going to feel when a customer of his buys a shotgun and DOES murder someone?

Handguns are used in the vast majority of all gun murders. I was referring to huge casualty shootings and even one of the worst, Virginia Tech was with high capacity semiautomatic handguns.

But I guess we have to start somewhere.

Personally I don’t care much about the type of gun. I want magazine sizes limited to 10 or less. Won’t solve everything but would help.

Assault weapons have no purpose except to kill human beings.

I'm not talking about the ones that can mow down Bambi like a weed wacker either rather I'm talking mainly about the bolt-action ones that are manually reloaded.

Everyone, without exception uses a bolt action rifle that holds between 4-6 bullets and must be manually reloaded after every shot. Same technology from WWI.

Even the republicans I hunt with take making an ethical kill very serious. If you can’t routinely kill a deer with one shot you have no business deer hunting.

The caliber of these guns are very deadly. Way more so than handguns. We are crazy to allow firearms that can hold 20-30 bullets of these calibers and can be fired as fast as you can pull the trigger so easily assessable.

I grew up on a farm. We had shotguns and a bolt-action 22. Both of these have uses that are completely unrelated to killing other humans. We had to eliminate rodents and other non-human pests with them. There is also no reason why people should not be allowed to hunt when they are going to actually use the meat and hides.

My father taught us gun safety. One other thing to note. My dad would never let us get a pistol. He said that those are only people-hunting guns and there is no reason for them. My father was also very specific about "sport hunting." He said there was no such thing. If one was going to kill an animal one was going to eat it/use its hide out of respect for the animal. No killing things just to stuff them or hang them on the wall.

If you can believe it, when I was a kid, the NRA actually sponsored gun safety classes at my high school. They taught gun safety during gym class and we used shotguns with live ammo to shoot clay pigeons. Times were obviously different then. The NRA wasn't exclusively the La Pierre gun-manufacturer's lobby.

When it comes to home defense, I'd recommend a pump-action shotgun to anyone. They are easy to use and they do not require a lot of practice to become skilled. Yes, there are reasons to have something like this for home defense. Not everyone is lucky enough to live in a quiet, safe neighborhood.

As they are overwhelmingly used in mass shootings.

http://activeshooterdata.org/the-event.html

Seriously fuck the NRA.

People out there somewhere, we don't know who or where, but people out there somewhere have just been saved from being killed in the future. These are real people with real lives and real families.

A good start!

C'Mon, I know you were thinking it!

Sick fucks probably more distressed about that than Newtown.

a serious gunner is not buying there.

Putting their NRA taught obfuscation skills to good use.

Thank you Dick's Sporting Goods!

thats 5 million staying in the pockets of the gun companies.

They profited off all of those, and the market for those weapons is still there, so those buyers went to other outlets.

Financially, the manufacturer got 2 sales for the same set of buyers. Also the manufacturer gets further financial relief by releasing the warranty reserve dollars set aside for that $5m. That's probably another $500k right there.

They may not have had the legal ability to do that however. Depends on the contract between Dicks and the manufacturers.

I applaud them for putting their money where their mouth is.

It was Dick's property to destroy. The gun manufactures already got their money.

$5M is a large write-off regardless of what the inventory is.

Get the photos and I'll trust him.

I have no problem believing that the guns were legally destroyed.

what do you think the company did with the guns that were removed from the stores, if they were not destroyed as claimed?

all the photos I see of Dick's gun sections full of big rifle and gun displays, but no photos of the destroyed assault weapons.

Why is that?

Why is everyone so happy to believe what they can't get proof of?

Why do I have to even think the company removed $5 million in guns from the stores on his sayso?

AND why didn't any reporters literally ask him what his stores actually did with the guns that were removed?

Why does no one here ask what the company did with the $5million in guns that were removed?

What do YOU think the company did with them?

Most likely, the display cases are not empty but filled with the remaining stock.

Most people either don't care or are willing to accept that the legal documentation has been satisfied.

The removal of the rifles from the stores is easily verified by going to the stores.

I don't care what the company did with the guns since it was purely a choice to cater favor with a vocal segment of society and since destroying the rifles was a bad business decision. The 6000-ish rifles are easily replaced by the current suppliers.

I've read right wing sites, most of whom don't believe he destroyed them, most of whom think he just took the tax write-off and got rid of them on the black market or gun show circuit, most of whom say they wouldn't shop at Dick's anyway and never have.

Their opinions are no more based on any fact of seeing the destroyed guns than those who believe him. So if not grounded in fact, what's belief or disbelief worth.

If gun control people want to be happy about his claim, his reasons, that's their choice. But the way I'm taking this news is, we're really not getting the whole picture.

However, I do wish those guys on the RW sites would share what they are smoking or drinking.

Little league gear this year I took them to Dick's instead of somewhere cheaper.

Think of the lives that were saved by their courageous decision.

Until some whack-a-loon Republican legislator somewhere files a bill requiring stores like Dicks to dispose of firearms they no longer want to sell at a public auction or something similar.

Crazy idea? They specialize in crazy.

Just bought a Louisville Slugger from them last month.

take down the NRA too.

I bet thousands.

How much were their lives worth?

How many people a year do you think are killed by assault weapons?

Heavily publicized mass shootings this summer alone?

What percentage of all assault weapons do these destroyed represent? A tiny fraction- right..? And nothing stopping a gun buyer from buying elsewhere. So thousands of lives were not saved. More likely none.

the FBI lumps deaths by assault weapons with shotguns and all other rifles so it is hard to get a hard number but the combined total is aprox 300 deaths.

If I had my rathers, and push came to shove, I would support shotguns that you have to reload after a single shot or even double barreled ones

I always shop there and tell the cashiers as well as those surveys on the receipts that I am doing so because of their stand on assault rifles.

I think it's worth it. It's the closest store to me.

at least in this case, which is huge. Thank you Ed Stack.

Since the buyers @ Dicks for those guns will be turned away, they will end up making the purchase at another reseller.

Effectively, The manufacturers will make and sell 2 guys for each would be purchase at Dicks. One that got destroyed and one that was made to fill the inventory somewhere else.

Law of unintended consequences is weird.

or are they just out 5 million?

They deserve credit.

Hopefully, they’ll attract a lot of customers from the 80% of the population who aren’t in love with their assault style weapons.