Don't be taken in by Dick's Sporting Goods move to stop selling assault rifles.

If you owned a jewelry store and you knew that newly minted gold coins would be banned next month, would you put up a sign offering yours at sale prices, or would you put them away for awhile?

Back in the '90s, after the cosmetic ban on assault rifles went into effect, pre-ban AR-15s doubled in price overnight. Buyers didn't like the appearance of the modified weapons that were built to circumvent the law, and pre-ban rifles became highly sought after. Though many consider them nothing but modern killing machines, others see them as a commodity for investment subject to supply and demand.

A ban on assault rifles (and extended magazines) will apply only to future manufacture, and pre-2013 weapons will demand a premium on the open market where those rifles currently in inventory will end up. You didn't think they'd melt them into slag, did you?

I'm not saying Dick's heart isn't in the right place in this recent announcement. After all...corporations are people too, my friend.

Well yes... I guess I am saying that.