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The company said in a statement Wednesday that it chose to review its firearm sales policy "in light of recent events".
Walmart on Wednesday announced gun sale policy changes, including raising the age restriction for firearms and ammunition purchases to 21. "They may be correct - but if common sense reform is enacted and even one life is saved, it will have been worth it", Stack said. Dick's said it would stop selling assault rifles altogether, which Walmart has not done since 2015. The retail giant also does not sell handguns, except in Alaska, nor does it sell bump stocks or high-capacity magazines.
As to bump stocks - which U.S. President Donald Trump insists he may unilaterally ban - Wikipedia explains them as "gunstocks that are specially created to make bump firing easier, which allows semi-automatic firearms to mimic the firing speed of fully automatic firearms".
Walmart, the largest seller of guns in the USA, said it would remove items from its website that resembled assault-style rifles.
"We have tremendous respect and admiration for the students organizing and making their voices heard regarding gun violence in schools and elsewhere in our country", the company said in a statement.
"We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms", Walmart said in a statement posted on its website Wednesday evening. Stack also called for a universal database of people banned from buying firearms, and urged leaders to close the private sale and gun show loopholes that allow potential gun owners to skip background checks.
The CEO of Dick's Sporting Good, Ed Stack, said in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America that he was "disturbed and saddened" by the mass shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
Dick's Sporting Goods stopped selling assault-style weapons at its stores following the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting in 2012.
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Last week, a number of companies cut ties with the National Rifle Association after an online boycott called on them to do so. "It's not a gun issue; it's the person using it", said Mike Harris, owner of Allegheny Trade Co.in Duncansville.
Students who survived the attack are lobbying for tougher gun laws, and many have demanded companies stop doing business with the NRA.
A company statement put out Wednesday morning said assault-style rifles would be removed from all 35 Field & Stream locations.
Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, followed by saying it will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21.
While the guns that have been pulled from the racks at stores owned by Dick's are not typically used for hunting, the company has entered the type of intense national conversation that most companies try to steer clear of to avoid offending potential customers on either side.
President of Londonderry Fish and Game Club Rick Olson said he is not going to patronize Dick's if they "choose to go with the ebb and flow of political correctness". They launched the #NeverAgain Twitter hashtag to push for new gun laws. Kroger will raise the age for firearm purchase from 18 to 21 years of age in its Fred Meyer stores, located in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
We will no longer sell high capacity magazines. "The gun situation, I mean we're from Texas so I don't think that guns kill people", said Dane King. But that would only solve one facet of the problem.
Stack said the newest ban would be permanent.
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