Dick's Sporting Goods loses firearms businesses after gun control push

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  1. therooster

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    I know what it says and what it means ... and what the writers meant . You guys continue to try and change it .
     
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    reality is, they did not sell many of the guns they discontinued or they would not of discontinued them

    my guess, they already planned to discontinue them and just tried to use this for some free publicity
     
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    Their prices are prohibitive. No knowledgable gun enthusiast buys from Dick's...
     
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    Which is why I'm shopping at Cabela's. :D
     
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    Even more ridiculously expensive than Dick's.

    You probably have a nice, smaller, family-owned gun store in your vicinity that is far less expensive, and more knowledgeable, by far. Check around...support your LOCAL businesses....
     
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    Probably the same people that will deport 11 million immigrants. I don't know.
     
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    Nothing you have to offer goes over my head. I gave your stupid retort an equally stupid retort.
     
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    Yeah they said the same thing about blacks being equal and.......oh, wait.
     
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    What would the right do if they didn't have Chicago to throw under a bus.......BENGHAZI!!!
     
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    Keep doing nothing while school kids die.....it will happen.
     
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    Yeah, everybody funny. Now your funny too. You don't see any problem.
     
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    All evidence of your comprehension is of the contrary.
     
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    Its a publicity stunt. Rifles are used in 1% of all shootings. If Dick's really thought guns were the issue then they would ban handguns which are used in the overwhelming number of shootings.
     
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    One snot nose brat that kills some children and you expect me to go off the deep end?

    I was a kid when our fear was not some kid with a gun, but genuine nuclear bombs landing on us. I recall days before Disneyland. Disneyland is the only park personally designed and supervised by Walt Disney.
     
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    then why complain that they are not selling ar-15's, lol, most people do not go there to buy guns
     
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    Let's repeat. The typical shooting by guns is the 9mm pistol. It is not the longer, more elaborate AR-15. The 9mm really packs a lethal punch. The human body has many non lethal areas that get hit.
     
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    Dicks is driving off customers. We have plenty of places to buy the AR-15.
     
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    Has nothing to with Chicago.
     
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    Not the even close to being the samething.
     
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    it clearly went righttover you head
     
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    When?

    Who says I'm doing nothing? I write my legislators. Do you?
    Again, good luck getting 67 senators, 290 members of congress, and 38 states to do your bidding.

    Saying what you posted above (and the posts you made proceeding that one) is what doing nothing really looks like. There's a process, get on it.
     
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    Most big box stores saw the writing on the wall decades ago and pulled out of the firearms business. Target and Wal-Mart's sporting goods sections have been in decline for years regardless of dismal gun sales, and Target hasn't sold guns in a very very long time. Most people prefer to go to an independently owned gun store and talk to someone that has some actual knowledge of what they are selling. A lot of big box stores have a sales staff that barely know anything about most of the products they're selling in general... let alone speciality items like firearms.
     
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    And that matters, also a great point.
     
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    If you were a stockholder you might, in March of 2017 their stock was over $60 a share, today they were a little over $31. What a beating they took.
     
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    What about getting rid of the instrument causing the highest death toll, the human?
     

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