Dick's

[Darryl]

"Dick's Sporting Goods CEO says company destroyed $5 million worth of weapons"

[Rongo]

Good for him; It's a free country he can do that... And I can choose not to shop there too. I heard Dicks lost around $750,000,000.00 since they took that stance & anounced they will most likely stop selling ALL guns & ammo within the year. Great business plan I guess; They can sell balls & jockstraps instead... I hope they know what to use THOSE for.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Never shopped there and now never will.

[steelbuttplate]

Never shopped there and now never will.

Maybe they should change the name to " Penis's". (shorties). "Dickless". "Dickhead's". "Schlongs sporting".

[tjtM38]

Never shopped there and now never will.

Ditto...

[awalker1829]

Haven't shopped there in years. I also minimize my patronage of Walmart but not for 2A related reasons.

[sheepdog]

Good for him; It's a free country he can do that... And I can choose not to shop there too. I heard Dicks lost around $750,000,000.00 since they took that stance & anounced they will most likely stop selling ALL guns & ammo within the year. Great business plan I guess; They can sell balls & jockstraps instead... I hope they know what to use THOSE for.

No one that shops at Dick's needs a jockstrap.

[millman]

Good for him; It's a free country he can do that... And I can choose not to shop there too. I heard Dicks lost around $750,000,000.00 since they took that stance & anounced they will most likely stop selling ALL guns & ammo within the year. Great business plan I guess; They can sell balls & jockstraps instead... I hope they know what to use THOSE for.

No one that shops at Dick's needs a jockstrap.

[InOmaha]

He should be sued by shareholders for purposefully destroying store inventory and the DICK brand name.

It's like Exxon Mobile's CEO protesting climate change by lighting their gasoline on fire.

[JC 762]

Now the CEO is trying to peddle a book he had written about his great stand.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I don't get it, does this guy intentionally want to sink his company by alienating his customer base? It's one thing to quietly stop selling something, but to boast about it when the majority of his customers are likely hunters and gun owners? Like MacDonald's starting an anti beef campaign and removing burgers from the menu.

[SA1911a1]

I don't get it, does this guy intentionally want to sink his company by alienating his customer base? It's one thing to quietly stop selling something, but to boast about it when the majority of his customers are likely hunters and gun owners? Like MacDonald's starting an anti beef campaign and removing burgers from the menu.

Apparently, his calculation was that he sold more product to non-gun people than to gun people. The local Dicks never had enough gun gear for me to go looking for stuff there. The gun area was not the busy part of the store, The customer base seemed to be young folks and it was clothing that got the traffic. If nothing else, you have to give the man credit for putting his money where his mouth is. He said that the decision would cost the store over a billion dollars.

[Junk Yard Dog]

In other words not a real sporting goods store, but a place were " dude's" buy the crap they wear when they are pretending to be outdoors and country types. Never even saw one of these stores so maybe they aren't in this area of the country. I have seen Cabela's, and they do sell guns, I would buy them but I am way to cheap to pay full retail on guns. I do buy other things from them, my hat came from Cabelas.

[Darryl]

I don't get it, does this guy intentionally want to sink his company by alienating his customer base? It's one thing to quietly stop selling something, but to boast about it when the majority of his customers are likely hunters and gun owners? Like MacDonald's starting an anti beef campaign and removing burgers from the menu.

Apparently, his calculation was that he sold more product to non-gun people than to gun people. The local Dicks never had enough gun gear for me to go looking for stuff there. The gun area was not the busy part of the store, The customer base seemed to be young folks and it was clothing that got the traffic. If nothing else, you have to give the man credit for putting his money where his mouth is. He said that the decision would cost the store over a billion dollars.

Exactly. Dick's is not your "normal" Sporting Goods stores in the USA. He mainly sell sporting clothing, shoes, and a lot of Yuppy type sporting goods. Here in Calif you can't find a sporting goods store that is big into firearms. Even Walmat don't sell firearms or ammo here in Calif and never has. Most firearms people or owners know this and I have been in Dick's Sporting Goods maybe twice and they are less then 4 blocks from my house here.

So in these liberal states I think they gave up very little to nothing. But like stated above, it one thing to change your sales tactics, but it's another to stop selling something and destroy the inventory. As I see it, The people who made the firearms he destroyed could care less. They have sold those firearms and made their profit. They could care less because Dick's is not going to buy from them any more anyway.

He would have done more damage to the firearms makers by selling them off cheap and taking away future business from those makers. Instead, people deciding to buy one now has to go to a different dealer and buy a new made one. He did nothing to stop buying or slow it down at all. Only one who lost is anyone who has stock investments in Dick's. They lost a bunch of money. And who gave him the right to destroy inventory of a company with stock holders?

In other words not a real sporting goods store, but a place were " dude's" buy the crap they wear when they are pretending to be outdoors and country types.

YES, Exactly.

Darryl

[Longcolt44]

I'm betting he talked with his tax people so he could write off the items crushed.

[silverado1999]

Shopped there twice. Once they had a great deal on some Winchester 380 Auto FMJ, $19 IIRC. Second I bought two hockey pucks for bench blocks. Won't ever shop there again. When he bailed on we 2A supporters he was telling me he doesn't need my business. So as a good thoughtful considerate guy I will oblige him and take my business elsewhere.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Hockey pucks work great for installing crankshaft seals in the timing covers of big vintage American engines. I will not be getting them from the Dick of course.