America's largest sporting goods retailer paid a high price after it stopped selling assault weapons and restricted other gun sales.
But we didn't know how much Dick's Sporting Goods' woke policies cost, until now.
According to The Truth About Guns, the company admitted in a recent interview that restricting gun sales cost Dick's (and its shareholders) approximately $250 million.
The Truth About Guns continues:
That's probably an understatement. When the pandemic hit, gunย stores sawย lines of peopleย waiting to buy firearms, ammo, and accessories. Meanwhile, over at No-Gunsย Dick's, corporate was furloughing employees as fast as their printers could pump out the pink slips. They sentย 40,000 employeesย home when sales fell off a cliff and gunย retailers were doing land office business.
Rather than rolling in profits, Dick's now touts its new โPublic Landsโ chain which it has created to replace many of its former Field & Stream stores. The new woke outlet sells premium-priced, socially-conscious outdoor apparel andย gearย (don't tell their customers a lot of it isย actually petroleum-based) representing the company's latest new vision for a firm's firearm-free sales strategy.
Aย Fast Companyย storyย about the new brand coversย now-formerย CEO Ed Stack's fateful decision, following the Parkland shooting, to stop selling what author Talib Visram calls โautomaticโ weapons.
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I'm not sure Dick's ever sold automatic weapons, but I know they soldย guns, especially at theirย Field & Stream stores.ย They also unilaterally began discriminating against younger Americans โ where they still sold firearms โ refusing to sell themย gunsย or ammunition, even where state and local allows allowed it.
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I have not spend one penny there since they took a position against my rights and beliefs and I will never spend another penny there.