Come right in ladies and gentlemen! Watch a corporate suicide happen in real time! Yeah, billionaire Edward Stack isn't content with virtue signaling his contempt for gun owners nationwide. No, he's been busily hiring lobbyists to lobby Congress for more gun control.
Yes, he's pissing his money away because gun control is going nowhere at the federal level. And, that money he's wasting on lobbyist stands as nothing but spare change from his couch cushions compared to his other massive wealth.
Of course, his wealth will take a hit when he finishes driving Dick's into bankruptcy.
And he's not getting another dime from me.
At the debate this past weekend with the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Colleen Daley laughed at the notion that Dick's sales would suffer as a result of their corporate virtue signaling. "For every gun owner they lost, they're picking up two from people like us."
Yeah, sure Colleen. That's why Fortune magazine wrote about Dick's problems that cannot be fixed with a pill:
Only weeks after winning accolades from gun-control advocates for ending sales of assault rifles at its Field & Stream stores, Dick’s posted a deeper-than-expected sales decline.
"A deeper than expected sales decline".
Surely sounds like all those gun haters stepping up to the plate and shopping Dick's, now doesn't it?
From The Truth About Guns:
It apparently wasn’t enough for Dick’s Sporting Goods to announce, in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, that they’d stop selling AR-15 rifles and won’t sell long guns to anyone under 21. Then they let it be known that, rather than disposing of their now non-salable ARs and other forbidden inventory in ways that would have salvaged some value, they instead decided that they would destroy it all in order to reduce the chances that any of the items might someday be used in a mass shooting. Or something.
Now, The Federalist reports that Dick’s is engaged in actively lobbying Congress for stiffer gun control legislation . . .
Dick’s Sporting Goods, which announced in February it would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, hired three Beltway lobbyists to lobby Congress for gun control, according to federal records reviewed by The Federalist.
The lobbying records show Dick’s hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC-based government affairs firm, for “[l]obbying related to gun control.” No other policy issues were listed in the disclosure form filed by the firm. The disclosure forms show Dick’s pro-gun control lobbying effort began official on April 27, 2018. The official registration form noting Dick’s retention of Glover to push for gun control was filed on Monday morning.
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