Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling assault-style rifles after selling gun to suspect in Florida school shooting

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February 28, 2018 12:36 PM

Dick's Sporting Goods says it will stop selling assault-style weapons and will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.

Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the US, says it will stop selling assault-style weapons and will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.
The CEO said the company was "disturbed and upset" by the shooting earlier this month in Parkland, Florida.
The 19-year-old suspect in the shooting legally bought a gun from Dick's in November.

Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the US, will stop selling assault-style weapons and will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old, the company's CEO, Ed Stack, announced Wednesday morning.

"We're staunch supporters of the Second Amendment — I'm a gun owner myself," Stack said on "Good Morning America." "We don't want to be a part of this story, and we have eliminated these guns permanently."

In November, Dick's sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting, according to The New York Times.

"Following all of the rules and laws, we sold a gun to the Parkland shooter in November of 2017," Dick's said in a letter to customers posted on its Facebook page. "It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting. But it could have been."

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