Major tradesman Dick’s to stop offered attack weapons, guns and ammo to anyone underneath 21

Dick’s Sporting Goods says it will no longer sell conflict weapons in any of a stores, or sell any form of guns or ammunition to anyone underneath 21.

The pierce comes after a conflict on a high propagandize in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14 in that 17 people were killed by a gunman who used an AR-15 conflict rifle. Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old former student, has been charged with 17 depends of intentional murder.

The sporting products sequence done a proclamation on Good Morning America on Wednesday, with CEO Edward Stack — son of a chain’s founder, Dick Stack — saying the association “felt it indispensable to do something” after a latest propagandize shooting.

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Stack pronounced that after a attack, a association checked a sales annals and detected that Cruz bought a shotgun from Dick’s final November, though it was not a arms used in a Parkland shooting.

While all existent manners were followed in that sale, Stack pronounced he wanted to safeguard a sequence wouldn’t be compared with any destiny massacres, so it changed its policy.

“It changed us all unimaginably,” Stack pronounced of a shooting, privately a victims and a actions of survivors in a aftermath. “We don’t wish to be a partial of this story.”

The sequence implemented a identical process after the 2012 Sandy Hook propagandize conflict in Newtown, Conn., where an AR-15 semi-automatic purloin was also used. That ban was temporary and a sequence shortly started offered a guns again.

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This time, a changes will be permanent, Stack said. He combined a company is prepared for any intensity backlash, though will not change a new policies on gun sales “ever.”

The association will also exclude to sell so-called strike bonds — devices that can be trustworthy to weapons to give them a banishment ability of involuntary weapons.

Dick’s will also stop offered guns or ammunition of any kind to anyone underneath 21 years old.

“We petition a inaugurated officials to order common clarity gun reform,” by flitting laws to charge a changes Dick’s has done for everyone, a association combined in a tweet.

At a same time, we petition a inaugurated officials to order common clarity gun remodel and pass a following regulations: https://t.co/J4OcB6XJnu pic.twitter.com/VUuFKkyk6c

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