{"id":33419,"date":"2012-12-29T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33419"},"modified":"2012-12-29T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T16:21:54","slug":"sporting-goods-store-stops-selling-sporting-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33419","title":{"rendered":"Sporting goods store stops selling sporting goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living up to their name, Dick&#8217;s, the sole vendor of <a href=\"http:\/\/troyind.com\/\">Troy Industries<\/a>&#8216; weapons inventory has decided that they won&#8217;t fill orders which were placed before Christmas for those semi-automatic rifles according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/dicks-sporting-goods-refuses-to-honor-military-style-rifle-orders-placed-before-ct-shooting-and-customers-are-irate\/\">The Blaze<\/a> in a link sent to us by Chief Tango;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dick\u2019s announced a week before Christmas that it was suspending sales of \u201cmodern sporting rifles\u201d in all stores, \u201cout of respect for the victims of the Connecticut massacre,\u201d CBS News 11 notes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of companies are doing similar stuff. For example, Amazon used to sell rifle magazines and before the end of the weekend before Christmas, they stopped. When I finally found some magazines for sale at Bass Pro Shops, I discovered that PayPal wouldn&#8217;t approve the sale because it was rifle magazines. It didn&#8217;t kill my order, but it was a minor inconvenience. Their loss.<\/p>\n<p>Cheaper Than Dirt thought better of their initial decision to stop selling weapons from their online shop.<\/p>\n<p>I guess, politically, it&#8217;s easier to piss off gun owners than it is to piss off the perpetually outraged of the Left. But would any of those companies be brave enough to deny a health care benefit that provided abortions to their employees? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living up to their name, Dick&#8217;s, the sole vendor of Troy Industries&#8216; weapons inventory has decided &hellip; <a title=\"Sporting goods store stops selling sporting goods\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33419\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sporting goods store stops selling sporting goods<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}