{"id":77978,"date":"2018-02-28T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77978"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:11:48","slug":"dicks-sporting-goods-suspends-gun-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77978","title":{"rendered":"Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods suspends gun sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77979\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dicks_Sporting_Goods_Exterior-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dicks_Sporting_Goods_Exterior-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dicks_Sporting_Goods_Exterior-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dicks_Sporting_Goods_Exterior-500x261.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dicks_Sporting_Goods_Exterior.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/02\/28\/dicks-sporting-goods-guns\/\">Fortune<\/a> reports that Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods won&#8217;t sell scary-looking black rifles in any of their stores, and they&#8217;ve said that they won&#8217;t sell long guns to people under the age of 21 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,\u201d Stack told the New York Times Tuesday night. \u201cWe love these kids and their rallying cry, \u2018enough is enough.\u2019 It got to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to take a stand and step up and tell people our view and, hopefully, bring people along into the conversation,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever, dude. <\/p>\n<p>They said they&#8217;d stop selling scary-looking black rifles after the <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2012\/12\/18\/business\/in-wake-of-newtown-dicks-sporting-goods-pulls-rifles-from-stores\/\">Newtown tragedy in 2012<\/a>, so I guess they started selling again when the discussion faded. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A statement posted on the company\u2019s website said that \u201cduring this time of national mourning,\u201d it had removed all guns from its store nearest to Newtown and \u201csuspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chainwide.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That  means that in a few months when we&#8217;re talking about North Korea or a Veterans&#8217; Day parade, Dick&#8217;s will sneak scary-looking black rifles back onto their shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune reports that Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods won&#8217;t sell scary-looking black rifles in any of their stores, &hellip; <a title=\"Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods suspends gun sales\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77978\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods suspends gun sales<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77978","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=77978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}