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20-year-old sues Dick’s and Walmart for not selling him a gun

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#47 ·
According to Dick's website, they still carry quite a few brands and models of sporting rifles and shotguns, and tactical rifles (sniper/ countersniper), and some combat shotguns that are obviously not made for hunting.
They sell semi-auto shotguns and rimfire rifles, but no centerfire rifles in semi-auto actions.

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/products/guns-ammo.jsp

The other brands Dick's still carries are Savage, Remington, Ruger, Marlin, Henry, Benelli, Beretta, Stoeger, and even one Winchester shotgun.
 
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Coming back at them across the sales counter.

Nemo

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dicks-...un-sales-policy-dragged-on-results-1535565173

Dick's Says Under Armour, New Gun-Sales Policy Dragged on Results
Sporting-goods retailer retreated from the hunting business after a shooting at Florida high school
By
Allison Prang
Updated Aug. 29, 2018 7:03 p.m. ET

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. DKS -2.17% said weaker sales of Under Armour Inc. apparel and a decision to pull back from the hunting business dragged on the retailer's latest quarterly results.

Comparable-store sales fell 4%, Dick's said. Not adjusting for the 53rd week last year, the company's same-store sales declined 1.9%.

The weaker-than-expected results bucked a trend in the retail sector, which largely has benefited from a surge in consumer spending fueled by a booming economy.

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Dick's banned sales of so-called "assault rifles" at its stores and at its sister retailer, Field & Stream. It also banned the sale of "high capacity" magazines and barred the sale of any gun to any customer under 21 years of age. At the time, the company admitted they believed the move could hurt sales, but said that they hoped the change would attract a new breed of Dick's customer.

The anti-gun crowd must not buy a lot of sporting goods.
Who the hell did they expect to fill the void with? Their marketing dept sounds like it's staffed with a bunch of sorry Dicks.

It's interesting to note that Dick's is actually bucking the trend. Retail sales increased overall last quarter based on improved consumer confidence.
Excellent strategy there, Eddie! :righton:
 
#50 ·
All the liberal outdoors types already shop at REI. All they did was chase off a good chunk of their customers. The shareholders of Academy should send the Dicks board a great big thank-you basket.
 
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Dick's still has a bunch of combat shotguns by Mossberg and, I think, Savage.

Funny they didn't drop these tactical non-sporting weapons. But at least somebody looking for a home defense gun can find at least one good style there.
 
#54 ·
Dick's will now dump "hunting products" later this year. What will the Fudds do? :panic:
https://www.guns.com/2018/08/30/dic...ting-products-from-10-stores-later-this-year/
Dick's Sporting Goods said this week it will begin pulling hunting products from 10 stores later this year.

"Later this quarter, we will remove virtually all of the hunt products from 10 Dick's stores with the category with significant under performance and replace it with products and in-store experiences that are most relevant to our athletes in those markets," he said.
 
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Poor (snark) Dick's can't catch a break. $5 million lawsuit for breach of contract and fraud.

https://www.guns.com/news/2018/10/2...cks-for-5-million-over-ammo-deal-turned-sour/
At the root of the filing is what BBM says was the failure by Dick's to hold up their end of a contract for the ammo distributor to supply the retailer with Field & Stream-branded ammo for resale in their stores. The delay by the big box sporting goods outlet, argues the filing, resulted in BBM losing out on a multi-million dollar contract to supply helicopters to an overseas U.S. ally.
 
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Ruger posted a note on their Fecesbook group explaining they did business through wholesalers and couldn't control who the wholesalers sold to. I suspect we could dig those names out and shame the wholesalers into dropping Dicks too.
I bet that they can at some point control what those wholesalers do, and, if not, well, there is an item for their General Counsel to renegotiate when it is time to renew the wholesaler's purchase contract. It could read like this:
"Ruger will not sell rope to those seeking to hang us."
 
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