Dick ’s Sporting Goods , one of the largest retailers in America , will stop selling rape rifles like the AR-15 , the weapon that was used in the Parkland slaughter that killed 17 people . The company has also announce that it will limit gun gross sales entirely to people at least 21 years old .
“ We face at what happened and we were truly profoundly moved and disturbed by those events , ” CEO Ed Stack said today onGood Morning America .
“ When we saw what the kids were belong through and the grief of the parents and the kids who were kill in Parkland , we feel we needed to do something , ” Stack continued .
The move affect all of the brand under the publicly merchandise company , including its hunting - focused Field & Stream stores . The company was moved to activity by the stripling militant that have emerged from the shooting in Florida . Those youthful people have launched calls for boycott of companies doing business concern with the NRA and have demand that Congress eventually do something to curtail gunman violence in the United Sates .
“ These kids were unfearing enough to endure up and , so we should be brave enough to stand up up , and I hope our lawmakers will be dauntless enough to do that , ” Stack said onGood Morning America .
Chairman and CEO of Dick ’s Sporting Goods tells@GStephanopouloswhy the troupe has decided to no longer sell assault style rifles or firearms to anyone under 21 year of age , and no longer sell high capacity magazines.pic.twitter.com/xiuMfqIZLd
— Good Morning America ( @GMA)February 28 , 2018
The move will surely irritate the NRA and its members , which is why Stack drop a line an open letter of the alphabet to client delineate the plan and why he felt it was the right-hand affair to do .
“ We brook and honour the Second Amendment , and we recognize and appreciate that the Brobdingnagian majority of gas pedal owners in this country are responsible , law - abiding citizens . But we have to facilitate correct the problem that ’s in front of us . Gun violence is an epidemic that ’s taking the life of too many people , including the brightest hope for the future of America — our kids . ”
Stack acknowledge that the decision wo n’t be popular with everybody , but that it ’s the correct thing to do .
The complete letter from Stack , first incur by GMA ’s web ABC , is below .
We at DICK ’S Sporting Goods are deeply disturbed and saddened by the tragic events in Parkland . Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and their make love ones .
But thoughts and prayers are not enough . We have tremendous regard and admiration for the students mastermind and making their voice heard regarding gun force in school and elsewhere in our country .
Clearly this designate on so many levels that the system in place are not effective to protect our kids and our citizens .
We think it ’s time to do something about it .
begin today , DICK ’S Sporting Goods is commit to the following :
We will no longer sell rape - style rifle , also have-to doe with to as modern sporting rifle . We had already remove them from all DICK ’S stores after the Sandy Hook massacre , but we will now polish off them from sale at all 35 Field & Stream stores .
We will no longer deal firearms to anyone under 21 age of age . We will no longer trade high electrical capacity cartridge . We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi - automatic weapons to give the axe more rapidly .
At the same time , we implore our elect officials to ordain common sentience gunman reform and blow over the comply regulations :
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leaven the minimum age to buy firearms to 21 Ban gamey capacitance magazines and encounter stocks demand universal backdrop assay that include relevant mental wellness information and previous interactions with the law secure a unadulterated universal database of those cast out from buying firearms shut the secret sale and gun show loophole that waives the necessity of backcloth checks
We hope others join us in this effort to permit our kids recognise that their plea are being taken in earnest . Some will say these stone’s throw ca n’t guarantee disaster like Parkland will never happen again . They may be correct – but if common sentiency reform is enact and even one life is saved , it will have been worth it .
We profoundly conceive that this nation ’s most precious giving is our small fry . They are our future . We must keep them dependable . Sincerely ,
Edward W. Stack Chairman & CEO tool ’S Sporting Goods
The NRA has yet to respond to the move , but given the neo - fascistic tone it has adopt , whatever the accelerator rights group does , you may bet it wo n’t be insidious .
[ ABC News ]
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