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   From: gp@dont-email.me   
      
   NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation®   
   (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition,   
   hunting and shooting sports industries, Board of Governors today   
   unanimously voted to expel Dick’s Sporting Goods from membership   
   for conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Foundation.   
      
   Dick’s Sporting Goods recently hired a Washington D.C.-based   
   government affairs firm, for “[l]obbying related to gun   
   control.” Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward W. Stack announced   
   earlier this year the Field and Stream stores in the retail   
   chain would end sales of modern sporting rifles, voluntarily   
   raise the age to 21 to purchase firearms in their stores and   
   called for more restrictive legislation. Dick’s later announced   
   they would destroy the remaining modern sporting rifle   
   inventory. NSSF responded that business decisions should be   
   individually made, but was nonetheless disappointed and the   
   decision does not reflect the reality of the vast majority of   
   law-abiding gun owners.   
      
   About NSSF   
   The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association   
   for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect   
   and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961,   
   NSSF has a membership of more than 13,000 manufacturers,   
   distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s   
   organizations and publishers. For more information, visit   
   nssf.org.   
      
   ________________________   
      
   Media contact:   
   Mike Bazinet   
   203-426-1320   
      
   https://www.nssf.org/nssf-expels-dicks-sporting-goods/   
       
      
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