We almost made it through a week without a 2A controversy........

[Fatcamp]

Nice. What did Sitka ever say about that guy?

My friends who spoke with them directly felt comfortable with their reply, but I don't remember them ever publicly commenting. Nice stuff I'm sure, but out of my league.

 

[5MilesBack]

This isn't a 2A controversy, the 2A doesn't give anyone the right to have access to buy guns from every store, nor for every retailer to sell guns.

Heck, the 2A is the least controversial of all the amendments.........it's the most explicitly written......."Shall not be infringed upon". No other amendment has that written in it. Never a controversy.

 

[EastMT]

I was just excited to announce it so it would give Rinella and Calaghan a chance to seize guns and burn books in Bozeman while everyone looked the other direction.........

I have no idea what Dick’s is, had no idea they sold guns until they didn’t. I would be pretty hard pressed to buy a gun from a box store. I’d rather buy from the local guy I have a relationship with instead of a cashier. I hope all the big stores quit selling them, mom n pop gun shops will be all over the place again, and that’s a good time!


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[Crippledsledge64]

Every time I've set foot in Dicks I've been underwhelmed, seems like its probably what others have mentioned already. A business decision due to not make enough money on guns. Failing or least slowly dying businesses usually don't have the luxury of making political statements, too much on the line.

 

[TJ]

A private company makes a business decision. How is that a second amendment controversy?

 

[EastMT]

Everything is controversy these days. I find it funny myself. There’s been 14 “outrages” in 14 weeks, got to keep the ball rolling!


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[jm1607]

I think 99% of Dicks failing is Amazon and other online shopping, just like most big box stores. I think it's cute to think that gun sales & boycotting has something to do with it but I highly doubt it. If it does it's negligible.

 

[flatlanderhuffandpuff]

If I owned a grocery store and raised the age of people able to buy sandwich making materials and insulted the constitution right to make a sandwich I would plan on not having to stock bread, meat and cheese for long.

Don't tread on deli meat.

Who cares? I just hope other retailers see that SJW causes aren't popular.

 

[DAOutfitters208]

Where do most of you on here purchase firearms? I usually go to a local gun shop or shop the classified section of forums like this. When I go into stores like Sportsmans, Dicks or Cabelas the gun counter seems to be empty or have a lot of lookers. I wonder if the gun counter in stores like that even make a profit?

 

[cuerro viejo]

I see several things here. 1. Guns haven’t been a good profit for them in a long time. 2. It could be a simple business decision but they are spinning this to gain attention and respect (from some) that they hope will contribute to a bigger boost in overall sales. 3. If it was a simple and quiet business decision it wouldn’t do anything for immediate sales or store traffic. 4. In the Denver area Dicks has been nothing but a black sheep in sporting goods. All they did was compete with sports authority who went sharply down hill and eventually gone. 5. Good for the small business. 6. Plenty of other places to buy guns. I know we could use their support. 7. We probably shouldn’t be hating so much on cabelas&bp for whatever reason as they are still a good advocate for guns. 8. I really like Scheels. Reminds me of the good old stores of years gone by. Sometimes the torch must be passed.

When you publicly announce that you are paying lobbyists to push for more gun control... you are making your business into a financial engine against the 2nd.

It’s not a business decision it’s a personal political ideology decision. Ed Stacks dad started Dicks, Ed now runs it and is turning it into his person political funding mechanism

 

[cuerro viejo]

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Oh lord. I dont know which stores are not on the list of “sure to fail” “digging their own grave” and the like. Boycott Dicks. Death to Cabelas for having the nerve to change the bargain cave, and Bass Pro as well for having high prices and ruining Cabelas. The nerve of Bass Pro. Patagonia? Good luck you lost all the hunters and the tons of business we would have done with them. Benchmade? Not on my watch, no way will I ever buy a knife from you, they're sure to fail without us. What else? REI, PayPal, Ebay, Amazon, Cascade Designs. I think JetBoil did us wrong somewhere along the way. Gerber was on thin ice for a while.

Remember the great gun grab six or seven years back? How many retailers did guys vouch to never do business with again and were guaranteed to fail in short order? Cheaper Than Dirt, Midway, 44mag, Walmart, Dicks. The companies who had the nerve to raise prices on magazines and rifles, or limit ammo and powder and primer sales. How dare they raise prices to consumers during a period of high demand and short supply? That was outrageous.

Remember when multiple companies said they would no longer offer NRA member discounts? All those companies are still on a real hunters boycott list. They’re doomed to fail without our geneous repeat business. Good luck without my business Yeti. Remember we do not do business with gunhaters like Avis, Hertz, Enterprise, FedEx, United Airlines, Delta, MetLife, True Car.

I can’t remember(for real now this not sarcasm) the higher end hunting clothing company who recently had the cajones to enter a business deal with some guy who is not a hunter or has ties with an anti hunting group? We don’t do business with them either. There is probably a few boot makers and maybe a bank who did us wrong also. Maybe a bullet maker too for pushing their tree hugger copper bullet agenda on us. I know we can shop at Scheels and I think Sportsmans Warehouse is ok too but i’m not certain. The outrage is just over the top these days. Its too much.

If you want to support a company and it’s ownership that publicly stated they are lobbying for more gun control knock yourself out.

 

[Newtosavage]

Heck, the 2A is the least controversial of all the amendments.........it's the most explicitly written......."Shall not be infringed upon". No other amendment has that written in it. Never a controversy.

I would agree if it weren't for that pesky "well regulated militia" preface.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Such language has created considerable debate regarding the Amendment's intended scope.

 

[Btaylor]

I would agree if it weren't for that pesky "well regulated militia" preface.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Such language has created considerable debate regarding the Amendment's intended scope.

So you could have a militia armed with swiffers or one armed with stuff that goes bang, which do you choose? I'll go with bang.

 

[5MilesBack]

I would agree if it weren't for that pesky "well regulated militia" preface.

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

It doesn't say "the right of the militia to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed". It says "the right of the people". Not all people are or were in the militia. So it's ridiculously obvious how it's written and intended.

 

[Rthur]

I would agree if it weren't for that pesky "well regulated militia" preface.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Such language has created considerable debate regarding the Amendment's intended scope.

Only by people that have an agenda.
The wording is simple for a reason.

R

 

[Newtosavage]

5MilesBack, so far the courts have agreed with you. Let's hope they continue to.

 

[JWP58]

What's the controversy? Its Dick's sporting goods, they're pretty "limp" when it comes to firearms...

 

[Ndbowhunter]

The only frustrating part of this whole deal is that if we look back into the rear view, say 60 plus years ago guns were literally sold from barrels at department stores. dad bought his first gun at 13 from sears and Roebuck in 1956 and rode the street car home with it in his lap. Can you picture that nowadays??

What has changed isn’t human nature but a long list of leftists moves to shift the cultural acceptance of firearms.

Now i’m Not waxing nostalgically abouta long lost era, but rather pointing out that the truth.

If companies don’t want to sell firearm related goods so be it.. but if they want to make a political statement about it then I won’t vote with my dollars to do business with them.

The end goal of leftist and their shill in the corporate world is that we the people will not own firearms. Centrist good meaning Americans fall victims to this strategy all the time and it’s heartbreaking.

Mexico has an article 10, it’s not worth the paper it was printed on.

Brazil is finally waking to the idea that banning guns from average citizens doesn’t work. 60,000 murders in 2017 proves this.

At some point pointing these facts out on a hunting forum is a bit pandering to the audience... but then again there are those on here that think electing senators that openly support 20 week abortions is acceptable, and ar15’s get up and assault people.

 

[5MilesBack]

The only frustrating part of this whole deal is that if we look back into the rear view, say 60 plus years ago guns were literally sold from barrels at department stores. dad bought his first gun at 13 from sears and Roebuck in 1956 and rode the street car home with it in his lap. Can you picture that nowadays??

What has changed isn’t human nature but a long list of leftists moves to shift the cultural acceptance of firearms.

We moved to Iceland in 1999, that was only 20 years ago.....but seems like 5 years ago. Soon after arriving we were at the mall in Reykjavik eating in the food court. I look over and there's this guy walking through the mall with a rifle over his shoulder. Apparently he had just bought it at the sporting goods store in the mall.

The amazing thing was, nobody even gave him a second glance........it wasn't a big deal. And even more amazingly, nobody died. How is that possible?

In high school in the 80's you would find no less than a dozen trucks in the parking lot with guns hanging in the back window racks. And amazingly, no one ever died, and no one ever shot up the school. And even more amazingly, no one broke into the trucks and stole them.

Guns haven't changed, they haven't suddenly become evil.........people have changed, society has changed. But all the focus is on guns instead of the nutjobs for some idiotic reason.

 

[Sportsman]

Where do most of you on here purchase firearms? I usually go to a local gun shop or shop the classified section of forums like this. When I go into stores like Sportsmans, Dicks or Cabelas the gun counter seems to be empty or have a lot of lookers. I wonder if the gun counter in stores like that even make a profit?

Sportsmans and a local shop. Both stay busy. Only two option should in a town that is hunter and gun friendly. Like both. Sportsmans has better prices. Hard to argue that. Full time employees in both know me by face and but I would give slight customer service edge to Sportsman. More tolerant of lookers.

Have to look before you buy. No substitute for putting hands on a rifle to get a feel for it.