Dick’s Sporting Goods destroyed $5 million worth of assault-style rifles: CEO

Published October 8, 2019 9:03pm ET



Dick’s Sporting Goods destroyed $5 million worth of guns after it made the decision to stop selling semi-automatic rifles in its stores, Edward Stack, the retailer’s CEO, revealed.

The sporting goods chain stopped selling assault-style weapons in its Dick’s locations after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. But the company expanded that policy to its 35 Field & Stream stores in the wake of the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

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