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dikk's Sporting Goods CEO on decision to no longer sell assault-style rifles: 'We don’t want to be a part of this story'
DAVID CAPLAN and KATIE KINDELAN
Good Morning AmericaFebruary 28, 2018
dikk's Sporting Goods to no longer sell assault-style rifles
dikk's Sporting Goods Inc., one of the largest retailers of its kind in the United States, is taking new steps to curtail the sale of firearms, including ending sales of assault-style rifles and banning the sale of guns to people younger than 21, the company announced this morning.
PHOTO: dikk's Sporting Goods Inc., Chairman and CEO Edward Stack speaks out on 'Good Morning America,' Feb. 28, 2018. (ABC)
"To think about the loss and the grief that those kids and those parents had, we said, ‘We need to do something,'" Stack, whose father, dikk, started the business 70 years ago, explained. "And we’re taking these guns out of all of our stores permanently."
PHOTO: Students walk with an armed escort after reports of a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, 2018. (WPLG)
"We did everything by the book,” Stack said of Cruz. “We did everything that the law required and still he was able to buy a gun. When we looked at that, we said, ‘The systems that are in place across the board just aren’t effective enough to keep us from selling someone a gun like that.’"
PHOTO: Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
The new measures go into effect today. Aside from dikk's, the Pittsburgh-based, publicly traded company also operates stores under the Gold Galaxy, Field & Stream, True Runner and Chelsea Collective banners.
dikk's announced a temporary suspension of assault-style rifles from its stores after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 elementary school students and educators.
Assault-style rifles were later sold in the company's Field & Stream stores, Stack said.
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PHOTO: Guns sit on display at a dikk's Sporting Goods store in Paramus, N.J., March 6, 2012. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
When asked whether there is a chance the company will reverse its position on the newly announced ban, Stack replied, "Never."
"We’re staunch supporters of the 2nd Amendment. I’m a gun owner myself," Stack said. "We’ve just decided that based on what’s happened with these guns, we don’t want to be a part of this story and we’ve eliminated these guns permanently."
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PHOTO: Chairman and CEO of dikk'S Sporting Goods Edward W. Stack visits a new store at the Baybrook Mall in Houston, Oct. 18, 2016. (Scott Dalton/Invision for dikk'S Sporting Goods/AP)
In light of recent mass shootings, dikk’s, along with other gun retailers and manufacturers, is among the public companies that have come under pressure from some activist stockholders “to report on steps they’re taking to improve gun safety and to mitigate the harm associated with gun products,” Fortune magazine reported last week.
It’s an open question about how this decision will affect the company’s bottom line but it is prepared for any backlash, Stack said this morning.
"We know that this isn't going to make everyone happy," he said.
More than a dozen companies, ranging from hotel operators to insurance providers, have announced plans to stop offering discounts and cost-saving programs for members of the NRA in light of the Florida shooting.
Students who survived the attack are lobbying for tougher gun laws, and many have demanded companies stop doing business with the NRA.
Discussing the possible repercussions for dikk’s, Stack pointed to the courage of those students, many of whom are responsible for mobilizing and organizing gun control rallies, marches and social media-inspired boycotts.
"When we take a look at what those kids and the parents and the heroes in the school, what they did, our view was if the kids can be brave enough to organize like this, we can be brave enough to take these out of here," he said of the guns.
In an open letter to consumers, Stack outlined the new four-point policy for the chain's 700-plus stores, which is as follows:
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ADZJtOyDbg_Tfw6Qhr251A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjA4O2g9NDA1/https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/dikks-3-gty-er-180227_3x2_608.jpg
PHOTO: Merchandise is displayed for sale at a dikk's Sporting Goods store in West Nyack, N.Y., May 21, 2014. (Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
- Assault-style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles, will no longer be sold. Stacks noted that the company had already removed them from all dikk's stores after the Sandy Hook massacre, but they will now be removed from all 35 Field & Stream stores.
- Firearms will no longer be sold to anyone under the age of 21.
- High capacity magazines will no longer be sold.
- And finally, "We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
Stack is also now calling on elected officials to take action on gun control.
"We don’t want to see the partisan politics where one side espouses their position and another side espouses their position and they actually never do anything," he said. "We hope that Congress will come together."
"This is a complex issue. It’s not just about guns. It’s about mental health reform, it’s around background checks," Stack said. "We hope they come together with the intent of really finding a solution to this problem as opposed to just talking about it, knowing that they’re never going to do anything, just speak to their base.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dikks-spo...nger-sell-120903254--abc-news-topstories.html
dikk's Sporting Goods CEO on decision to no longer sell assault-style rifles: 'We don’t want to be a part of this story'
DAVID CAPLAN and KATIE KINDELAN
Good Morning AmericaFebruary 28, 2018
dikk's Sporting Goods to no longer sell assault-style rifles
dikk's Sporting Goods Inc., one of the largest retailers of its kind in the United States, is taking new steps to curtail the sale of firearms, including ending sales of assault-style rifles and banning the sale of guns to people younger than 21, the company announced this morning.
PHOTO: dikk's Sporting Goods Inc., Chairman and CEO Edward Stack speaks out on 'Good Morning America,' Feb. 28, 2018. (ABC)
"To think about the loss and the grief that those kids and those parents had, we said, ‘We need to do something,'" Stack, whose father, dikk, started the business 70 years ago, explained. "And we’re taking these guns out of all of our stores permanently."
PHOTO: Students walk with an armed escort after reports of a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, 2018. (WPLG)
"We did everything by the book,” Stack said of Cruz. “We did everything that the law required and still he was able to buy a gun. When we looked at that, we said, ‘The systems that are in place across the board just aren’t effective enough to keep us from selling someone a gun like that.’"
PHOTO: Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
The new measures go into effect today. Aside from dikk's, the Pittsburgh-based, publicly traded company also operates stores under the Gold Galaxy, Field & Stream, True Runner and Chelsea Collective banners.
dikk's announced a temporary suspension of assault-style rifles from its stores after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 elementary school students and educators.
Assault-style rifles were later sold in the company's Field & Stream stores, Stack said.
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/OlWDP41Wo5c3R0OBjSegcg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjA4O2g9NDA1/https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/dikks-2-gty-er-180227_3x2_608.jpg
PHOTO: Guns sit on display at a dikk's Sporting Goods store in Paramus, N.J., March 6, 2012. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
When asked whether there is a chance the company will reverse its position on the newly announced ban, Stack replied, "Never."
"We’re staunch supporters of the 2nd Amendment. I’m a gun owner myself," Stack said. "We’ve just decided that based on what’s happened with these guns, we don’t want to be a part of this story and we’ve eliminated these guns permanently."
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YEVRrnOAXdf7sbODEiF21w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjA4O2g9MzQy/https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/dikks-ap-er-180227_16x9_608.jpg
PHOTO: Chairman and CEO of dikk'S Sporting Goods Edward W. Stack visits a new store at the Baybrook Mall in Houston, Oct. 18, 2016. (Scott Dalton/Invision for dikk'S Sporting Goods/AP)
In light of recent mass shootings, dikk’s, along with other gun retailers and manufacturers, is among the public companies that have come under pressure from some activist stockholders “to report on steps they’re taking to improve gun safety and to mitigate the harm associated with gun products,” Fortune magazine reported last week.
It’s an open question about how this decision will affect the company’s bottom line but it is prepared for any backlash, Stack said this morning.
"We know that this isn't going to make everyone happy," he said.
More than a dozen companies, ranging from hotel operators to insurance providers, have announced plans to stop offering discounts and cost-saving programs for members of the NRA in light of the Florida shooting.
Students who survived the attack are lobbying for tougher gun laws, and many have demanded companies stop doing business with the NRA.
Discussing the possible repercussions for dikk’s, Stack pointed to the courage of those students, many of whom are responsible for mobilizing and organizing gun control rallies, marches and social media-inspired boycotts.
"When we take a look at what those kids and the parents and the heroes in the school, what they did, our view was if the kids can be brave enough to organize like this, we can be brave enough to take these out of here," he said of the guns.
In an open letter to consumers, Stack outlined the new four-point policy for the chain's 700-plus stores, which is as follows:
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ADZJtOyDbg_Tfw6Qhr251A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjA4O2g9NDA1/https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/dikks-3-gty-er-180227_3x2_608.jpg
PHOTO: Merchandise is displayed for sale at a dikk's Sporting Goods store in West Nyack, N.Y., May 21, 2014. (Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
- Assault-style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles, will no longer be sold. Stacks noted that the company had already removed them from all dikk's stores after the Sandy Hook massacre, but they will now be removed from all 35 Field & Stream stores.
- Firearms will no longer be sold to anyone under the age of 21.
- High capacity magazines will no longer be sold.
- And finally, "We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
Stack is also now calling on elected officials to take action on gun control.
"We don’t want to see the partisan politics where one side espouses their position and another side espouses their position and they actually never do anything," he said. "We hope that Congress will come together."
"This is a complex issue. It’s not just about guns. It’s about mental health reform, it’s around background checks," Stack said. "We hope they come together with the intent of really finding a solution to this problem as opposed to just talking about it, knowing that they’re never going to do anything, just speak to their base.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dikks-spo...nger-sell-120903254--abc-news-topstories.html
and they feel guilty, Notice they didn't disclose where he bought them from.
