Dick's Sporting Goods To Cease Selling Assault-Style Weapons

Dick’s CEO Ed Stack appeared on Good Morning America early Wednesday to explain the decision to crack down on gun sales to George Stephanopoulos.

“As we looked at what happened down in Parkland, we were so disturbed and saddened by what happened,” Stack said. “We felt that we really needed to do something and so we’ve decided not to sell these assault weapons any longer in any of our stores.”

Stack explained that the store did “everything by the book” when they sold the shotgun to Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter, and that demonstrated that the system is broken.

“Based on what’s happened, and looking at those kids and those parents, it moved us all unimaginably and to think about the loss and the grief that those kids and those parents had, we said, we need to do something,” he added.

“And we’re taking these guns out of all of our stores permanently.”