Dick’s Sporting Goods Chairman and CEO Ed Stack said on Wednesday that his decision to stop selling assault-style rifles was motivated by the deadly Valentine’s Day Florida school shooting.
“Based on what’s happened, and looking at those kids and those parents, it moved us all unimaginably. To think about the loss and the grief that those kids and those parents had, we said, ‘We need to do something.’ We’re taking these guns out of all our stores, permanently,” Stack said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Dick’s also announced on Wednesday that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.
