Let's make sure every gun owner knows about this.... and choses to spend their money elsewhere!
It's been roughly one year since Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack took a controversial stance on guns, pulling high-capacity magazines from stores and halting the sale of firearms to anyone under 21 years old. Dick's Sporting Goods' decision marked one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America in the national gun debate. Retailers like Walmart and Kroger later followed.
On Monday, traveling to New York to accept the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's "Force for Good Award," Stack says he doesn't think twice about the move. "We talk about it internally and I often say: If we had a mulligan, we'd do it all over again," he said.
In fact, Stack is doing even more to get behind his company's efforts last year. He, along with a handful of other CEOs, on Monday signed onto a letter sent to Congress in support of the HR8 background check bill. Background checks are something "both sides of the aisle can get behind it," Stack said.
He's also recently joined the Everytown Business Council arguing for gun safety across the U.S. And Dick's Sporting Goods continues to invest in
Sports Matters, a business it created to fund youth sports scholarships.
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1 year later, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack still takes a tough stance on guns