In a news release on Wednesday, O.F. Mossberg and Sons announced it was cutting ties with Dick’s and its subsidiary retailer Field & Stream.
“Effective immediately, O.F. Mossberg & Sons will not accept any future orders from Dick’s Sporting Goods or Field & Stream, and is in the process of evaluating current contractual agreements,” Mossberg wrote in its statement.
“It has come to our attention that Dick’s Sporting Goods recently hired lobbyists on Capitol Hill to promote additional gun control.” Iver Mossberg, the chief executive officer of O.F. Mossberg & Sons, said. “Make no mistake, Mossberg is a staunch supporter of the U.S. Constitution and our Second Amendment rights, and we fully disagree with Dick’s Sporting Goods’ recent anti-Second Amendment actions.”
Mossberg further encouraged its customers to look at the “one of the thousands of pro-Second Amendment firearm retailers to make their purchases.”
Apparently caught up in the nationwide anti-gun hysteria that followed February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — and the bizarre pseudo-celebrities who created hysteria — Dick’s not only decided to end sales of the AR-15 rifle, it went a step further and hired an anti-gun Beltway lobbying group to attack the Second Amendment in the nation’s capital. – READ MORE
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