Thursday, December 20, 2012
The city has two stores that sell firearms, Dick's Sporting Goods store and Norcross Gun Club and Range. Will tighter gun controls ensure our safety?
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- Judy Putnam
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Sandy Hook shooting deaths have everyone on edge and wondering just how safe they - and their children - really are. The focus naturally turns to guns, and how to keep weapons from the hands of those who would kill the innocent and unarmed. And it has put those who sell guns in the spotlight. Dick's Sporting Goods, which has over 500 stores in 44 states including Peachtree Corners, sells rifles, shotguns and ammunition. Shortly after the Friday shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the company made an announcement that "out of respect for the victims and their families," it would remove all guns from sale and from display at its store nearest to Newtown, Conn. "The company also made the decision to pull sporting rifles from all …
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The national chain, with three locations in Gwinnett County, made the move after Friday's school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Dick's Sporting Goods, with a location in nearby Peachtree Corners, has stopped selling some semi-automatic rifles to show respect for the victims in last week's school shooting in Connecticut, CNN reports. It's not known when the stores will return to selling guns in the category of "modern sporting rifles," CNN says. The shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 children and six adults, has re-ignited a national debate about gun control. Local Patch bloggers have also weighed in, both for and against new regulation. What do you think? Should more stores suspend sales of semi-automatic rifles? Tell us in the comments below. See also:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Residents eagerly await the Sept. 28 opening of the new Dicks Sporting Goods on Hwy 141, the old location of a Kroger supermarket.
With encouragement from his grandmother and his own determination, in 1948 Dick Stack opened a small store in Binghamton, New York. At just 18 years old, Stack had some forward-thinking ideas to share with his employer. His ideas were summarily rejected, leaving him discouraged. Soon thereafter, while visiting his grandmother, he confided in her his disappointments. From an old cookie jar she took $300 dollars which she had saved through the years, gave it to him and said “Dick, always follow your dreams.” With that money he opened a small bait and tackle shop and within 10 years had customers asking him to expand his business to include other sports equipment. From that Dick's Sporting Goods was born. Today Dick's Sporting Goods operates…
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BJ Van Gundy
1:48 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Mar. Silly concerns such as the kick of the gun I am simply not going to be able to discuss logically or objectively. You have obviously made up your mind that it is the gun that is at fault and that you are against ALL guns (while you initially WRONGLY were only against automatic weapons). All of my guns have enough of a kick that requires reaiming. Even my .22. This, as I said, is simply a … more ›