Politically correct firearms and ammo sales

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It's only a few of years ago that several department and sporting good stores were told or decided
it wasn't politically correct to sell firearms and ammunition.....

I wonder how many are now "crying in their beer" now that arms and ammunition have doubled or tripled in price.

How soon it is that the media forgets....Or is it they don't want to remember.
 
Nah, their thoroughly woke boards of directors are too busy making sure their products and employees are all certified free range, conflict free, carbon neutral, sustainably sourced, and DE&I trained to worry about a few lost bucks on ammo.

Doubt its even crossed the corporate gestalt.

Man, I wish I could convince Tractor Supply to carry ammo, pretty please!
 
Well, it would be very much like trying to open a used car lot right now.
Supply is down, costs are up, availability of popular models is entirely unpredictable, a whole raft of unknowns.

Better to sell what you have and can get and hope for the best.

Motivations of big box sellers are typically motivated by the cost of money, not how much a given product is desired by the retail public.
 
Most corporations just go along with the trends, as it usually makes them more money. Be it environmental or "gun violence," they follow the trends to fit the masses. The problem is that people are sheep and follow the masses.
Us, we think the corporations are spineless, mob appeasing, anti-America, and don't care about their customers. This may or may not be true, but the corporations think they know what increases sales. Some, may go too far and lose sales (like Gillette or Nike).
For ammo and gun sales in stores, you'd be surprised at the number of people, who are pro-gun, but don't want ammo and guns sold at their Wal-mart. They don't want to see some (in their eyes the stereotypical gun nut) buying an AR and a bunch of boxes of ammo. They have been conditioned to think this is bad and they don't want to see it. But, they want to allow you to do it, but do it somewhere else. This is how we are losing our 2A rights. That's why you have to teach your kids the value of freedom and that guns are not the problem and are not scary, it is the criminal that is the problem and is scary. It's taboo to even talk about guns now. This is how they are eroding your rights.
Basically, the majority of people think of guns as evil and scary and don't want to be around it. This is the problem.
 
Thomasss said:
It's only a few of years ago that several department and sporting good stores were told or decided
it wasn't politically correct to sell firearms and ammunition.....

I wonder how many are now "crying in their beer" now that arms and ammunition have doubled or tripled in price.

How soon it is that the media forgets....Or is it they don't want to remember.
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so what if the price has tripled? So has the cost to the retailer and even if not that much, no product to sell is useless anyway. Dick's and similar woke folks do not care about that minor loss in sales. There is a lot more profit in T shirts, gym clothes and golf accessories than there is in anything gun related.
 
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I have am honest feeling Dicks did okay during the pandemic lockdowns and probably would have made a crap load more if it wasn't for supply issues. I remember going into Dicks after they were allowed to have customers back inside. All the weights, bikes, work out gear, and I don't know how much else was almost gone or was literally all gone. Most of that was sold via curbside service.
 
herrwalther said:
I know the Dick's CEO was quite proud of his new "woke" anti-firearms agenda. He clung to the "If it just saves one life" line. He either made enough money in 36 years to be filthy rich in retirement or the board got rid of him for another reason. I don't see Dicks reverting anytime soon.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/24/dicks-sporting-goods-ceo-who-took-stance-on-guns-to-step-down/
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And when Dick’s started their anti-gun crusade, I stopped patronizing them. I will not even walk in a Dick’s. Besides, if you have an option between an Academy Sporting Goods and a Dick’s, the choice is a no-brainer. I just want companies to worry about selling products. Keep the politics and the BS out of it… the same with sports, etc. Of you are a retailer and aren’t making good profits on something such as ammo and/or guns and decide to get out of guns/ammo, I can understand that, but to stop selling products simply because the emotionally unstable dimtwits on Twitter are upset after reading anti-gun propaganda from CNN is not a business-savvy decision. That said, I suspect that there is decent money to be made selling guns and ammo. Even if not directly, it might attract customers to your store who window shop guns and then buy something in another section since they’re already there.
 
Their corporate boards might be unwilling to comprehend that plenty of their Unfashionable “gun nuts” regularly donate money to St. Judes’ Children’s Research Hospital and similar charities.

Most of the US is probably programmed by Hollywood’s movie images, like the ultra - Macho hunter (deer on his Cadillac) in the old movie Starman, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen.
 
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In a bygone day, Pizitz, one of the two biggest department stores in Birmingham, Ala., had a sporting goods department. Small, but it had good stuff. I particularly remember the Browning branded FN FAL next to the A5s and the Tingle muzzleloader.
 
Voting with our wallets has apparently not influenced the administration. Currently the SEC is exploring new corporate rules for publicly traded companies that will require compliance with rules covering governing boards' diversity, social justice, and environmental conscience.
FWIW, effective or not, i will continue economic voting. Lots of places to shop or not, lots of cities, states and attractions to visit or not. They say that's not effective. I say it's capitalism at its best. Carry on as you will.

-jb, a buck here a dollar there ... eh
 
Amen!
giggitygiggity said:
And when Dick’s started their anti-gun crusade, I stopped patronizing them. I will not even walk in a Dick’s. Besides, if you have an option between an Academy Sporting Goods and a Dick’s, the choice is a no-brainer. I just want companies to worry about selling products. Keep the politics and the BS out of it… the same with sports, etc.
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That is why I will pay a little more at the mom & pop stores still in operation. I am fortunate to live near a small town that has 4 hardware stores, all of which you can buy 1 bolt and 2 nuts if you choose. Two of them sell ammo, 1 sells guns also. They had 3 kinds of 9mm a week ago $20.99 for brass 115 gr. I still recall in 1963 as an 11 year old boy used to go to Western auto and buy .22 shorts for $0.39 a box an nobody questioned what I was doing in there all by myself buying .22's. Boy has this country went down a very slippery slope!!
 
The left will never feel remorse or guilt or second guess any decision that helps them reach their goal of disarming the American people. And corporate America has become hyper politically correct because they are far more scared of the media and the protesting hordes than they are of the average citizen not buying something from their company. Right now you just have to throw all logic out the door the left is in charge.
 
Dicks has done well this past year. CoVid saved their butts. Look at their stock for the past 5 years. You can see where it plummeted after their PC BS and then you can see where it escalated after CoVid became a pandemic.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DKS

Dang virus saved their “assets”

I will drive 100 miles not to patronize Dicks. I will not shop at Walmart, my wife does occasionally, every other month. I tried to stop her, but I would rather walk into a biker bar and yell “Honda Rules!” than fuss and argue with her about it.

I also stopped shopping at Fred Meyer’s which is owned by Kroger because of their PC BS regarding gun sales about 3-4 years ago.

If a store buckles to PC whims they no longer need my money. Just as stores that blatantly price gouged during the pandemic no longer need my money.
 
As long as I can get what I want, I don't much care where I can't get guns and ammo. I get a kick out of the idiots....very funny. My local Dick's used to have occasional sales on ammo and when checking out would ask, "Are you a legal resident of the USA?" I always say," Si Señor." My local Walmart refuses to sell "pistol ammo" because it's so dangerous. I don't have the heart to tell them that millions of people have .22 pistols and they sell .22 ammo:)
 
Dicks used to own Field and Stream stores. There was one in my hometown. When Dicks went woke, almost everyone in my area promptly quit going into both Dicks and F&S. A short time later, Sportsmans Warehouse bought all the Field and Steam stores from Dicks.

It was a 1000% improvement! Sportsmans is selling a hell of a lot more guns now than Dicks ever did in my area.

I too, didnt even grace and Dicks property with my shadow after they went "woke". In fact, I even had a 100 dollar gift card from Field and Stream that I refused to spend over their BS. I ended up giving it to a complete stranger at a grocery store.
 
Pat Riot said:
Dicks has done well this past year. CoVid saved their butts. Look at their stock for the past 5 years. You can see where it plummeted after their PC BS and then you can see where it escalated after CoVid became a pandemic.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DKS

Dang virus saved their “assets”

I will drive 100 miles not to patronize Dicks. I will not shop at Walmart, my wife does occasionally, every other month. I tried to stop her, but I would rather walk into a biker bar and yell “Honda Rules!” than fuss and argue with her about it.

I also stopped shopping at Fred Meyer’s which is owned by Kroger because of their PC BS regarding gun sales about 3-4 years ago.

If a store buckles to PC whims they no longer need my money. Just as stores that blatantly price gouged during the pandemic no longer need my money.
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I too vote with my dollars. May not mean much to the individual store but it does to me.
 
For the larger sporting goods stores, there's actually not that much profit in guns and ammo. Intense price competition in a mature market that forces distribution thru channels is the reason. They buy their guns from many of the same outlets that sell to individual gun stores, and in a shortage they only get their pro rated amounts based on past sales. Same for ammo. If they only sold X number of that model before, then, when there is 2X demand they get 1/2 X what they got before.

Places like Dicks etc make a lot more profit off sportswear, shoes, etc. and it's exactly why there are fashion trends with short life cycles - to turn over styles and make last years items obsolete. Anyone remember colorblock Columbia parkas in maroon magenta and lime green? They pop up now and again at the thrift outlets, nobody wears that stuff on the ski slopes now. It's all exotic mountain camo lately - which for a downed skier isn't a real good choice, but who am I to say? People dress toddlers in Realtree when camping . . .

Guns on the other hand, are long cycle and durable items. There are models that span decades still being sold, they are hard to get the public to flip or buy another, when sox underwear etc offer bigger profits on the retail dollars. So, no, all the woke boxes who dropped guns aren't likely to go back. They got into it for a buck, didn't see it was worth it, and moved on - to the big money selling Yeti coolers. Whoever knew you could blow mold or spin cast a few dollars of FRN with a semi industrial marine styling and sell them for hundreds?

There's one born every minute some guy said. And he was right. A guy with an Iphone and Yeti at the campsite has much more image working than someone with a Tracphone and Coleman, even if they perform more efficiently for the money. Why would you need a gun, just call the cops, they will take care of that bear or snake!
 
Tirod said:
For the larger sporting goods stores, there's actually not that much profit in guns and ammo.
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This^^^^^

When I was in college, i had to do a business profile as an assignment. I interviewed the owner of a big independent sporting goods store. Told him I wanted to start a gun shop. He said guns were something he had to carry, but he would have loved to get rid of them. They were basically a break even proposition. Sporting goods and clothing like uniforms had a 300% margin
 
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