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Topic: Academy Sports Pulling Everything "Assault Rifle"
Posted By: Chris Farris
Subject: Academy Sports Pulling Everything "Assault Rifle"
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 12:31

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/06/14/breaking-academy-sports-pulling-modern-sporting-rifles-shelves/ - http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/06/14/breaking-academy-sports-pulling-modern-sporting-rifles-shelves/

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/06/14/breaking-academy-sports-pulling-modern-sporting-rifles-shelves/ - (“Firearms Not Politics”) reports Academy Sports Pulling Modern Sporting http://viglink.pgpartner.com/rd.php?r=41936&m=794658840&q=n&rdgt=1465823721&it=1466255721&et=1466428521&priceret=26.99&pg=%7E%7E3&k=8aa4f129f280b8b69b6fc7533de7780a&source=feed&url=http%3A%2F%2Frd%2Ebizrate%2Ecom%2Frd%3Ft%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fads%2Emidwayusa%2Ecom%252Fproduct%252F130174%252Fhornady%2Dreloading%2Dbrass%2D223%2Dremington%2Dbox%2Dof%2D50%253Fcm%5Fmmc%253Dpf%5Fci%5Fconnexity%2D%5F%2DReloading%252B%2D%252BBrass%252B%2D%252BMatch%252B%252526%252BTarget%2D%5F%2DHornady%2D%5F%2D130174%26mid%3D77064%26cat%5Fid%3D12150125%26atom%3D10468%26prod%5Fid%3D2258804099%26oid%3D6621731204%26pos%3D1%26b%5Fid%3D18%26bid%5Ftype%3D9%26bamt%3D47177210b5d58e6a%26cobrand%3D106%26ppr%3Dbeb002c99335c836%26mpid%3D130174%26brandId%3D372463%26rf%3Dafp%26af%5Fassettype%5Fid%3D12%26af%5Fcreative%5Fid%3D2932%26af%5Fid%3D613705%26af%5Fplacement%5Fid%3D1&st=feed&mt=%7E%7E%7E%7E%7E%7E%7E%7En%7E%7E%7E - From Shelves. True story! We phoned around a few stores and the sporting goods giant has removed “assault rifles” from their shelves. They are, however, still selling the guns, which can be viewed “by request.” “We’re doing it out of respect,” a manager who wished to remain anonymous told TTAG. He has no idea how long scary-looking evil black http://viglink.pgpartner.com/rd.php?r=41936&m=794658840&q=n&rdgt=1465823721&it=1466255721&et=1466428521&priceret=26.99&pg=%7E%7E3&k=8aa4f129f280b8b69b6fc7533de7780a&source=feed&url=http%3A%2F%2Frd%2Ebizrate%2Ecom%2Frd%3Ft%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fads%2Emidwayusa%2Ecom%252Fproduct%252F130174%252Fhornady%2Dreloading%2Dbrass%2D223%2Dremington%2Dbox%2Dof%2D50%253Fcm%5Fmmc%253Dpf%5Fci%5Fconnexity%2D%5F%2DReloading%252B%2D%252BBrass%252B%2D%252BMatch%252B%252526%252BTarget%2D%5F%2DHornady%2D%5F%2D130174%26mid%3D77064%26cat%5Fid%3D12150125%26atom%3D10468%26prod%5Fid%3D2258804099%26oid%3D6621731204%26pos%3D1%26b%5Fid%3D18%26bid%5Ftype%3D9%26bamt%3D47177210b5d58e6a%26cobrand%3D106%26ppr%3Dbeb002c99335c836%26mpid%3D130174%26brandId%3D372463%26rf%3Dafp%26af%5Fassettype%5Fid%3D12%26af%5Fcreative%5Fid%3D2932%26af%5Fid%3D613705%26af%5Fplacement%5Fid%3D1&st=feed&mt=%7E%7E%7E%7E%7E%7E%7E%7En%7E%7E%7E - [/sarc] will remain out-of-sight. But we bet the people providing Academy with guns to sell are going out-of-their-minds. The AR-15-style rifle surge is on. Even if you can’t see it.




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Posted By: Chris Farris
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 12:32
The most shocking development is that the conference call outlined a new policy requiring any sale of more than 10 boxes in a caliber that Academy deems an “assault rifle caliber” will require the buyer to furnish personal information that Academy is planning on keeping in a database

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Posted By: Steelbenz
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 12:40
Simple for me, they have Lost my business on everything. Fishing gear, running shoes, baseball stuff for grandkids, Zippo! Until they decide to grow a set my money will go elsewhere!

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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 13:07
I saw this today.
The father of one of the officers that works here owns a gun shop. He told his son that his wholesaler was raising the price of all their ARs by 18%.


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Posted By: bugsNbows
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 13:11
And here we go again!!!

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Posted By: supertool73
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 13:27
Just another big company who is answerable to shareholders and trying not to get sued. This is the stuff the left is trying to do. Very sad.

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Posted By: Steelbenz
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 13:41
One of the big AR manufactures have posted that they will not raise the prices on their AR due to this very reason of price gouging!

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Posted By: Chris Farris
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 14:16

We don't ever see manufacturers or distributors raise their prices in response to panic buying fueled by possible new legislation.  We also leave our prices alone and just lean on our large inventory.

I understand that they (Big Box Stores) have to answer to their shareholders and look at what really pays the bills (apparel and sports gear) but to cave in immediately, surprises me.  They should just hire a really good PR firm and release a statement that reads that everything they sell is 100% legal and they follow all Federal mandated background checks and laws.  Refuse to use the left's term "assault weapon" and go about their business.  Point out that MSRs (Modern Sporting Rifles) are more popular than ever thanks for the huge explosion in competitive shooting like Three Gun.  MSRs are also now the most popular platform for varmint hunting and home defense.

The left has done a good job at demonizing these rifles that we used to see people be almost embarrassed when buying one, they would often make excuses to justify it, like it is only an investment in case they get banned.  They were primarily not gun enthusiast, they were casual hunters or sporting clay guys but it always amazed me at how people from other walks of life viewed these guns compared to how I view them.  I can only imagine how non hunters and non gun owners view them as they have no gun IQ as demonstrated by Katie Couric in her creatively edited gun documentary in which they broke multiple Federal laws.

We need Academy to step up to the plate and defend their stance on gun sales and the Second Amendment not cower down and hide everything including toys that might offend a soccer mom and form an internal database of everyone buying 10 boxes or more of "assault ammo".  When someone walks into our store and ONLY buys 10 boxes we assume they are just going to the range for a few hours.  We sell a plastic ammo cam with form fitted foam insert that holds 15 standard capacity (30 rds) mags.  We even load them for our customers, so for $349.95 you get a MTM plastic transport case and 15 loaded Troy mags.  We even have it set up so our customers can exchange the case of empty mags for a fresh new loaded one (kinda like a propane exchange).



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Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 15:10
Why are we not pulling MUSLIMS??!!!     

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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 17:11
Originally posted by Steelbenz Steelbenz wrote:

Simple for me, they have Lost my business on everything. Fishing gear, running shoes, baseball stuff for grandkids, Zippo! Until they decide to grow a set my money will go elsewhere!

My sentiments egg-xactly.  


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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 17:12
Originally posted by supertool73 supertool73 wrote:

Just another big company who is answerable to shareholders and trying not to get sued. This is the stuff the left is trying to do. Very sad.

It's time to choose sides, Brother. You know that. 


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Posted By: Peddler
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 17:16
We are Academy free here in the North but I wouldn't be surprised to see Dick's and their offshoot Field & Stream Stores do the same!

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Posted By: Snack_Attack
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 18:01
The media slander right now is about to burst the BS meter. Pretty much everything I hear is incorrect to a high degree. Even local media in MS (a very pro 2a state) is doing "how easy it is to get an assault rifle" stories. I can see how Academy doesn't want to be implicated, but they should know they'll take heat from the other side for this. I can't wait until this blows over.

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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 18:05
"It appears that one of those weapons he was able to just carry out of the store, a assault rifle, a handgun, a Glock which had a lot of clips in it..." said Obama.

Stare


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Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 18:11
I say send Obama a pork barbeque.  

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Posted By: supertool73
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 21:29
Originally posted by cheaptrick cheaptrick wrote:

Originally posted by supertool73 supertool73 wrote:

Just another big company who is answerable to shareholders and trying not to get sued. This is the stuff the left is trying to do. Very sad.


It's time to choose sides, Brother. You know that. 


Come now, that comment doesn't mean i haven't picked a side. Its just a likely reality for a company that answers to share holders. I sit in a board meetint most months for my company and I attend stock holders meeting yearly. So i see first hand how concerned directors and share holders can be about bad pr for the business.

That in no way means i like it or agree with it. Its just reality.

The left and the media push this crap and this is one of the reasons. They want businesses to be scared to sell them and to take them off their shelves.

My buddy is a manager for walmart and that is the exact reason they stopped selling "tactical" firearms. They were afraid of the risks and the percieved lawsuits that could come.

Its very sad that in a free market society businesses cant sell what they want for fear of being sued. But thats always a tool cor the opposing side.

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Posted By: Sgt. D
Date Posted: June/15/2016 at 22:42
It won't slow sales at all. It will only benefit the small guy who couldn't compete with their big purchase discounts. Shift some of that revenue to the small business who really need it. I get inquires every week. "Can you build me a AR on a budget?" Sure but it will cost more than you can buy one at (...........). They are super cheap right now and every shop with a CNC is building em. I suspect this will drive prices up and probably cause another buy out panic. I'm already hearing comments from guys placing bulk orders of potential targeted items. Go get your umbrella, The sky is falling..............again!!

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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: June/16/2016 at 01:57
I didn't mean YOU, ST. 

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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: June/16/2016 at 08:39
1994 all over again. Only this time it's going to be worse with an election coming up, and the Supreme Court on the line. Our Freedom is on the line, but most of you know that.


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Posted By: cpwomack
Date Posted: June/17/2016 at 14:47
Daniel Defense terminated their business relationshipwith Academy because of this.


Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: June/17/2016 at 14:57
Originally posted by cpwomack cpwomack wrote:

Daniel Defense terminated their business relationship with Academy because of this.

Good! Turn coats never loved the 2nd Amendment any way. 


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Posted By: jonoMT
Date Posted: June/17/2016 at 15:14
Originally posted by Chris Farris Chris Farris wrote:

When someone walks into our store and ONLY buys 10 boxes we assume they are just going to the range for a few hours

Made my day.


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Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: June/17/2016 at 16:06
I like the " exchange the case of empty mags for a fresh new loaded one (kinda like a propane exchange)".

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Posted By: shooter07
Date Posted: June/23/2016 at 06:19
Who the hell shops at Academy Sports? Roll Eyes

Especially for anything gun related?!?!?


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Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: June/23/2016 at 09:08
...people who want those Turkish shotguns.....






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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: June/23/2016 at 09:32
Our A.S. store (here in after known as ASs) had a decent selection of guns and good prices on ammo, so yeah, I shopped a ASs. Haven't been there since this though.


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Posted By: shooter07
Date Posted: June/23/2016 at 09:49
I've never found the big box retailers having prices that can beat a couple of the mom and pop places here in PA. I've bought the exact same model semi auto pistol that you can get in Cabelas (Hamburg) priced at 650, for just over 500 at my go to local shop. 




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Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: June/23/2016 at 10:33
Yeah. Anything you can get at Cabela's can be gotten somewhere else cheaper. 

( I been to Cabela's Hamburg! Bucky )



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Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: June/23/2016 at 10:36

" Gimme a Winchester with some nice wood! "

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Posted By: koshkin
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 18:17
Interestingly, I had never heard of Academy until this.

On a separate note, the governor or PRK just signed a bunch of laws that will make all my ARs illegal next year.  Also, mail order of ammunition will become illegal.

I need to get out of this retarded state.

Anyone can think of a job for me in Texas or some other free state?

ILya


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Posted By: mike650
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 19:08
Originally posted by koshkin koshkin wrote:

Interestingly, I had never heard of Academy until this.

On a separate note, the governor or PRK just signed a bunch of laws that will make all my ARs illegal next year.  Also, mail order of ammunition will become illegal.

I need to get out of this retarded state.

Anyone can think of a job for me in Texas or some other free state?

ILya


They won't be illegal if you register them as assault weapons or change to featureless but still..., as for ammo, that one really hurt, it won't start until July 2019.  Soap Box


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Posted By: koshkin
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 19:13
Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

Originally posted by koshkin koshkin wrote:

Interestingly, I had never heard of Academy until this.

On a separate note, the governor or PRK just signed a bunch of laws that will make all my ARs illegal next year.  Also, mail order of ammunition will become illegal.

I need to get out of this retarded state.

Anyone can think of a job for me in Texas or some other free state?

ILya


They won't be illegal if you register them as assault weapons or change to featureless but still..., as for ammo, that one really hurt, it won't start until July 2019.  Soap Box

I know, but I am not excited about registering them.  I was sorta comfortable with the government not knowing exactly what I have.  Perhaps, it is some vestigial paranoia from having grown up in Soviet Union.  

ILya


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Posted By: Peddler
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 19:19
Watch out for Gouvernor " Moonbeam " what a douche bag!!!

You won't be able to own any guns at all.

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Posted By: Sparky
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 20:03
So if you have mags that hold more than 10 rounds with the new law that bans possession of ammo mags that hold more than 10 rounds. Are you going to have to turn them in? Or are you grandfathered in?

And did the law about if your coworker doesn't think you should have a gun. They can have a hearing without your knowledge and they can take away your firearms. Did that pass?




Posted By: koshkin
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 20:07
Originally posted by Sparky Sparky wrote:

So if you have mags that hold more than 10 rounds with the new law that bans possession of ammo mags that hold more than 10 rounds. Are you going to have to turn them in? Or are you grandfathered in?

And did the law about if your coworker doesn't think you should have a gun. They can have a hearing without your knowledge and they can take away your firearms. Did that pass?



You would have dispose of your mag either by turning it in or selling it out of state.

I am not sure which one you are refering to with the co-worker.

ILya


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Posted By: mike650
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 20:21
I have some mags that were grandfathered in, the new law specifically addresses those as illegal as well.

I'm not sure too about the co-worker question.

In Moonbeam's defense he vetoed a lot of these and other stupid a$$ proposals the past many the years. This is his last year as gov. and I think Brown rather see it pass and over ride the proposal Gavin Newsom is pushing to the voters this November. If that passed we'd really have been F'ed. The new ammo law won't kick in until July 2019, I believe Newsom's would have started January 2017.


Anyone looking to purchase the following:

30 round Colt mags (.223/5.56)
M1A 20 round mags (.308)
92fs 15 round mags (9mm)
p30/vp9 15 round mags (9mm/.40)

Furious








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Posted By: Sparky
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 20:37
Just saw it was vetoed. But this is it in a nut shell. Expanded the types of people who can seek gun-violence restraining orders under a six-month-old program that allows courts to temporary revoke gun ownership rights of people suspected to be dangerous to themselves of others. It included coworkers and you wouldn't know about it until it was a done deal. Lacked due process and even the ACLU was against it.


Posted By: Son of Ed
Date Posted: July/01/2016 at 20:38
Are you referring to the proposed 'law' about some trouble-making acquaintance giving some kind of bogus information to the authorities, and the Gestapo can come and take your guns?   

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