Dick's Sporting Goods Suspends Sales of 'Modern Sporting Rifles'
The company suspended the sales chainwide, and removed all guns from sale and display at its store closest to Newtown, CT.
Dick's Sporting Goods has suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of its stores chainwide, the company announced on its website. This includes the Dick's store in Canton off of Cumming Highway. In a story first reported on CNN, the company made the decision in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, CT, that left 20 children and 6 school staff members dead. "We are extremely saddened by the unspeakable tragedy that occurred last week in Newtown, CT, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families, and to the entire community," company officials announced on the website. "Out of respect for the victims and their families, during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in …
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Barbara Holloway
3:09 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
It is so very sad that we are here with such a question as this. Should we have law enforcement on school grounds or not? I suppose since we changed our values at home and in the community, we really have no other means of protecting our children than Police at Schools with visual guns on hips. I grew up and raised my daughter in a Country free from this fear and dangers. It was a place you never… more ›