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Dick’s Sporting Goods Curbed Firearm Sales in 2018. Here’s How Much It Cost Them.

Hank Berrien

On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Dick’s Sporting Goods, the country’s largest sports retailer, lost $150 million in 2018 after the company decided to stop selling assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines, a policy instituted after the February 2018 Parkland School massacre.

The shooter in the Parkland massacre had legally bought his shotgun from Dick’s; the day after his arrest, a teenager with a shotgun from Dick’s who schemed to target his high school was apprehended by Vermont police.

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