I hope Dicks Sporting goods goes bankrupt!

magnumpi · Feb 28, 2018

Dicks CEO just announced no more "assault weapons", no standard capacity mags and no gun sales to anyone under 21 in Dicks and Field and Stream stores. I don't know what percentage of their sales are to gun owners and hunters but they sure are biting the hand that feeds them! I wont spend a dime there again.

jonnyl · Feb 28, 2018

Just saw that. Jumping on the the bandwagon. What a douche...

pbharvey · Feb 28, 2018

When is the clearance sale?

Doctor_M · Feb 28, 2018

Since when did Dicks sell "assault weapons" anyway. All I've ever seen in there were single shots, bolts, levers, and pumps.

Just out of curiosity... if Federal law says that an 18 year old can buy a shotgun or non-evil rifle, and they refuse service on the basis of age, wouldn't that be the foundation of an age discrimination suit. I know that they can make their own policies, but I don't see how this would be any different than them saying we refuse to sell guns to women or to African Americans. Sounds like it would be ripe for a legal challenge. My daughter turns 18 in June... might have to see if she wants to be a test case.

magnumpi · Feb 28, 2018

Doctor_M said:
Since when did Dicks sell "assault weapons" anyway. All I've ever seen in there were single shots, bolts, levers, and pumps.

Just out of curiosity... if Federal law says that an 18 year old can buy a shotgun or non-evil rifle, and they refuse service on the basis of age, wouldn't that be the foundation of an age discrimination suit. I know that they can make their own policies, but I don't see how this would be any different than them saying we refuse to sell guns to women or to African Americans. Sounds like it would be ripe for a legal challenge. My daughter turns 18 in June... might have to see if she wants to be a test case.

They stopped selling AR style guns in MD after 2013, but still sell them in other states especially their Field and Stream stores, they actually carry a lot of AR's as well as magazines, parts and accessories.

That's a very interesting point about age discrimination. My son turns 18 next week and he is definitely buying a gun, just wont be at Dicks!

JTH20 · Feb 28, 2018

Pretty stupid considering they were trying to make Field and Stream a Cabelas/Academy competitor. I went to a new one in GA and they had AR parts, cheap AR's and even a SCAR.

I have no reason to buy anything from them now.

ironpony · Feb 28, 2018

Should get the word out somehow.

Mini14tac · Feb 28, 2018

magnumpi said:
They stopped selling AR style guns in MD after 2013

I don't believe they will sell anything semi-auto with the exception of rimfire stuff.

CrazySanMan · Feb 28, 2018

Doctor_M said:
Since when did Dicks sell "assault weapons" anyway. All I've ever seen in there were single shots, bolts, levers, and pumps.

Just out of curiosity... if Federal law says that an 18 year old can buy a shotgun or non-evil rifle, and they refuse service on the basis of age, wouldn't that be the foundation of an age discrimination suit. I know that they can make their own policies, but I don't see how this would be any different than them saying we refuse to sell guns to women or to African Americans. Sounds like it would be ripe for a legal challenge. My daughter turns 18 in June... might have to see if she wants to be a test case.

magnumpi said:
They stopped selling AR style guns in MD after 2013, but still sell them in other states especially their Field and Stream stores, they actually carry a lot of AR's as well as magazines, parts and accessories.

That's a very interesting point about age discrimination. My son turns 18 next week and he is definitely buying a gun, just wont be at Dicks!

I remember Dicks pulled all of them after Sandy Hook, I didn't know they ever started selling them again. Shows you how much I shop there.

Uncle Duke · Feb 28, 2018

Link to NY Times article

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/...r-will-stop-selling-assault-style-rifles.html

Worth the read. As Anti as they come.....

Alea Jacta Est · Feb 28, 2018

Whomever named Dicks was a prescient genius

ironpony · Feb 28, 2018

Fox just said they will speak on this within the hour.

Czechnologist · Feb 28, 2018

jonnyl said:
Just saw that. Jumping on the the bandwagon. What a douche...

That's exactly what is. I rarely go to Dick's for anything more than ammo when they have it on-sale and, even then, I prefer to order it online and wait for it to be shipped than pay them $3-$10 per box more for the same thing.

I've never shopped Dick's for guns but, from what I've seen of their inventory at the Frederick store, they don't have much that interests me. I'd still rather buy from one of our IP's and drive twice as far than give them my money.

Mr H · Feb 28, 2018

Way to go, Dicks R Us!

Tebonski · Feb 28, 2018

Just sent an email to Mr Dick CEO telling him my boys and I would boycott his stores. I said does Kellogg's mean anything to you?

Morons caving to anti civil rights extremists deserve to go out of business.

rgramjet · Feb 28, 2018

Remember Sports Authority?

It's just a matter of time...

namrelio · Feb 28, 2018

I bought a shotgun from them years ago for my boy. It was screwed up and I took it back. The replacement had a problem and I took it to Scotts in Glen Burnie and he fixed it for free. I've been buying from Scotts ever since. I wouldn't buy a gun from Dicks even if it was free.

fred55 · Feb 28, 2018

Dick's, used to buy ammo there, not a penny more from me. Fred55

Squaregrouper · Feb 28, 2018

They haven't gotten a dime from me since the crap they pulled after Sandy Hook. Today's announcement confirms I made the right call.
I'm waiting to hear what CheaperThanDirt has to say...

nedsurf · Feb 28, 2018

They had a weak spine in 2013 as well. Haven't bought anything from then since then.

I hope Dicks Sporting goods goes bankrupt!

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