Dick’s Sporting Goods will stop selling guns at 440 additional stores this year, escalating the company’s methodical elimination of firearms from its stores. The move follows a series of decisions at Dick’s to scale back gun sales.

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In the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting in February 2018, the company announced it would stop selling semi-automatic weapons. “As we sat and talked about it with our management team, it was — to a person — that this is what we need to do,” he said. “These kids talk about enough is enough. We concluded if these kids are brave enough to organize and do what they're doing, we should be brave enough to take this stand.”

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In a press release announcing quarterly earnings, the company announced it would take a “$13.1 million write-down of inventory, resulting from the Company's decision to remove the hunt department from approximately 440 additional DICK'S Sporting Goods stores in fiscal 2020.”



Pictured: Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack

Stack stated in the press release that the company would continue implementing the company's 2019 strategy of "optimizing our inventory and floor space, delivering differentiated merchandising and driving athlete engagement across all channels." Apparently, they will have a lot of floor space to fill now that their hunting departments will be vacated.

Dick’s is removing weapons and other hunting products from about 440 more stores https://t.co/jxqL7EmRGW — Bloomberg (@business) March 10, 2020