Retailers start to pull some rifles from shelves

Dick's Sporting Goods and Wal-Mart suspend some gun sales after last week's shooting in Connecticut.

By Kim Peterson Dec 18, 2012 11:03AM
Credit: Seth Perlman/AP Caption: Steve Swartz, owner of Capitol City Arms Supply, shows off some of the rifles for sale in Springfield, Ill.,While politicians go back and forth about the future of gun control, some retailers are already making a statement and pulling assault weapons from their stores.

Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) has suspended sales of its modern rifles nationwide. It's also taken all of the guns off the shelves at its store near Newtown, Conn., where a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at an elementary school last week, killing 20 children and six educators.

The company said it took those actions out of respect for the victims and their families in this time of national mourning.

The gunman, Adam Lanza, used one of the Bushmaster AR-15 guns in his deadly rampage. A semi-automatic version of the weapon is popular for civilian sporting use, The Dallas Morning News reports. The large retailers selling assault weapons include Dick's, Cabela's (CAB) and Wal-Mart (WMT).

Wal-Mart has stopped showing the Bushmaster Patrolman's Carbine M4A3 rifle on its website as well, according to The Nation. There is no word whether Wal-Mart will stop selling the weapon at its stores, however. But Wal-Mart's site still shows that it's selling other guns at its stores, including the Sig Sauer M400.

Cabela's meanwhile, has stocked up on guns and ammunition heading into the fourth quarter -- largely a bet on surging gun sales after the presidential election. Here's what CEO Thomas Millner said in October, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle:

"At least coming in to the fourth quarter, we’ve taken a pretty aggressive position in inventory commitment to both guns and ammunition. So that’s a starting point. Clearly, if the president’s re-elected, I would expect some surge beyond the current levels, which are really good. And if Gov. Romney is elected ... I still think we’re gonna see gun growth next year. It probably won’t be at the same pace. ... So it’s probably a difference of degrees as we sit here today, but we’re doing a lot of stuff in our stores to make sure we are the easiest, fastest place to shop for your firearms purchases."

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RAM196612
Dec 20, 2012 4:57PM
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I am truly heart broken about the shooting, I don't think this falls on gun control, I think this falls  back on today's society where we don't pay attention to what our children are doing. We let video games become baby sitters where kids get lost in an imaginary world.

I agree that if guns are taken away from the american people then the only ones that will affect are the honest not the criminals.

Kevin Brown (Kevin Brown53)
Dec 20, 2012 4:57PM
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Should have conceal carry EVERYWHERE.

 

If everyone carries a concealed firearm there will be protection against individuals with mental illness.

 

 

Joe Lz
Dec 20, 2012 4:57PM
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If I want to kill and I don't have a gun... Then BOOM goes the bomb built off instructions found on the internet.

 

We need to fix PEOPLE.

Amused Man
Dec 20, 2012 4:57PM
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Ok Wal-Mart don't stop there. You must also pull  machetes, cross bows,  pneumatic nail guns, fertilizers,  propane tanks, poisons (that can be placed in water system) and ???. Where will it stop. 
ONESAWB
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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 Drugs are illegal is there a shortage??   Speeding is illegal have speed laws eliminated speeding? Car theft is illegal, yet last year my wifes car was stolen and used in an armed robbery. Burglery is illegal has the passage of any of these laws stopped anything. I don't think so.
rocky1941
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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we need to be very carefull as to what our government does to us----as total domination of we the people is the ultimate goal------your president is committed to this and has been,he and clinton went before the un asking for world wide gun controll----dont ever be dissilusioned,and dont give an inch,because once started they will try to steamroll us.
footetrax
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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ok ok some of it has to do w guns, and parents that dont no how to put they away clearly,because the kids wouldnt have them to take to school. so if parents can be parent per say then the parents dont need guns. Mental ilness  is everywhere. Go back n look at how many people gunned down people that came out to be mentally ill whether it be.....depression,bi​-polar,anziety,....i​f u have not been there then u clearly dont have a clue of what the human brain can do.WAKE_UP PEOPLE
Someone
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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Since 500 people a week, and 71 people a day die due to drunk driving, I guess the next thing you know we will be getting rid of automobiles.  In 1927 48 children and teachers were blown up by a janitor.  Explosives are still legal.

 

It isn't the automobiles, explosives,  nor guns that cause harm.  It is the users misuse of these tools that causes harm. 


 

IdahoPoster
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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People, read your history. You will find that even the history of OUR country started with a bunch of so called nut jobs.

The fact of the matter is that nearly EVERY document that comes out of Washington is intended to CONTROL us or REMOVE one or another of our freedoms or TAX the bejesas out of us. Read those to, I HAVE. We are being played just like the people that lived here were before we became independent.

I do not believe it is just the Democraps that are doing to us either. Both major parties have their heads so far up each others behinds it is amazing they get anything done there.
FCoke
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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Your decision to pull modern style hunting rifles (so called assault rifles) from your shelves shows that you are alinged with the gun banners.  The Connecticut shooting was a tragedy, but blaming the gun is assinine.  If this is your reaction and solution to dealing with this sad situation then we will shop elsewhere.

chili Mo Tee
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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The problem with taking away guns in this country is the local state an fed government. If any one thinks this government would not tax you to death  tell you how to live your life an put you in jail if you did not do what they told you , you are crazy . The only reason they dont do that right now is because they know the population would rise up  an they would have a hard fight on their hands. Take the guns an it will be a very short time before they are knocking at your door taking you to jail .
booger44
Dec 20, 2012 4:56PM
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I truly fail to under stand why the libreral media has jumped so hard on this issue where as 27 people were murdered horrifically last week, yet they say nothing about the 40 murders (gang related) a month in Chicago.  Does the liberal media consider these people who are murdered less worthy of attention, they are human beings after all.  It is illegal to carry a gun in Chicago for any reason, yet the crime rate of shooting and killings is through the roof, and the left wing liberal media says nothing about these people.  I would surmise that a high percentage of these killings in Chigago are between Black gang member over gang rivalry,  Heavens to betsy liberal media, these people are Human too.  I think you should pay equal attention to these Black victims equally as you do the White people whom were murdered last week in that school.  I would hate to think the liberal left wing media is showing their true colors and are really a racist group of people.
bull fighter
Dec 20, 2012 4:55PM
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Do not keep burying your heads in the sand...gun control is the issue..the main reason for the level of violence in the US society...every body is a cowboy...give them easy access to guns and those assault weapons and you will have the resulting aftermath..massacr after massacre...the motive in Connecticut is so glaring..Lanza was an out cast , he was ostracized for being different..a nurd ..obviously suffered from being psychologically off...so he dedcided that because of his suffering and the hurt his has endured akll his life he will make the community pay for this suffering by going after the 'innocence' of kindergarten children ..this is how he will pay back the society for treating him with scorn and making his young life so uncomfortable...he kills his mother to spare her the further hurt when the massacre is over..his mother is his only friend and he takes her out when she is sleeping so no pain..for her.....he knows he will die doing this deed and removes him from further suffering...but he makes his statement and hurts the innocence to get back ...BAN ALL ASSAULT RIFLES..THEN GO FROM THERE..listening to the gun advocates  one has to cry shame...blame everything else but the weapons that do the killing...next massacre will be a maternity ward of newly borns...
Citizen Frank
Dec 20, 2012 4:55PM
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I wonder if it was there shipment of modern rifles that got highjacked from the railcar yard in Atlanta a short while back? Can't sell them if you don't have them!
54buick
Dec 20, 2012 4:55PM
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Outlawing guns will stop killings like prohibition stopped drinking.
Bay Racine
Dec 20, 2012 4:54PM
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No one wants to take any guns away from the sportsman! We need to regulate the types of gun/weapons. I don't know of one sane person that could justify having a military type of gun! These are for killing people not sport hunting! Come people we need common sense REGULATIONS and strict laws with serious penalties! This will NOT define our country as a “POLICE STATE!  Joe, Make this happen!

king lou
Dec 20, 2012 4:54PM
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this country has to have an eye for a eye laws
this might scare these kid
don Wilson (wilson1963)
Dec 20, 2012 4:54PM
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They better quit selling loquor, cars and steak knives as well.....****es!!  Ill never shop in either place again....ever!
Mark Connelly
Dec 20, 2012 4:54PM
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I bet my local gun store would be happy to take any of those nasty guns that Dick's doesn't want to sell off their hands.

redactive
Dec 20, 2012 4:53PM
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I have guns but I certainly do not need an assault rifle or an automatic with an expanded magazine,
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