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Long ago, in The Time Before, Dick’s Sporting Goods sold guns. Lots of guns. And then the son of the founder decided to get woke and stop selling guns at all but a handful of the chain’s stores. After being hailed as a progressive, forward-thinking responsible retailer, the company now admits that going woke and kicking guns to the curb cost it (and its shareholders) $250 million in revenue.

That’s probably an understatement. When the pandemic hit, gun stores saw lines of people waiting to buy firearms, ammo, and accessories. Meanwhile, over at No-Guns Dick’s, corporate was furloughing employees as fast as their printers could pump out the pink slips. They sent 40,000 employees home when sales fell off a cliff and gun retailers were doing land office business.

> Long ago, in The Time Before, Dick’s Sporting Goods sold guns. Lots of guns. And then the son of the founder decided to get woke and stop selling guns at all but a handful of the chain’s stores. After being hailed as a progressive, forward-thinking responsible retailer, the company now admits that going woke and kicking guns to the curb cost it (and its shareholders) $250 million in revenue. > That’s probably an understatement. When the pandemic hit, gun stores saw lines of people waiting to buy firearms, ammo, and accessories. Meanwhile, over at No-Guns Dick’s, corporate was furloughing employees as fast as their printers could pump out the pink slips. They sent 40,000 employees home when sales fell off a cliff and gun retailers were doing land office business.

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[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

Not about gun control all about slowly disarming the population

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yeah, i expect some "grandfather" laws to be tried, similar to the automatic gun ones; eventually all legal ones end up in the hands of collectors or destroyed.

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Do you know how long that would take? There’s like 400 million guns in the country.

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The point is each of us has we'll say 5 each, if tomorrow they were illegal we would be frozen there. From that point on they would start consolidating.

Think of it like Indian head pennies, at one point every family had hundreds.

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Who cares if dicks don’t sell guns? It just makes it easier for the little guy gun store to compete tbh.