The target of a conservative boycott after it stopped selling semi-automatic long guns and high capacity magazines in its stores, Dick’s Sporting Goods nearly tripled its predicted second quarter earnings, the Associated Press reports.
Dick’s reported quarterly earnings of $3.21 per share, versus the expected $1.24, with profits largely driven by exercise and fitness equipment sales as people worked out from home during the pandemic.
Following the mass school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 and in Parkland, Florida in 2018, Dick’s opted to stop selling assault-style rifles in its hunting section, while they continued to sell bolt-action or single-shot long guns. They also raised the minimum age for firearms purchases to 21 years old.
Claiming that a private company choosing what products it would sell is somehow a violation of their Constitutional rights, gun use advocates attempted to boycott Dick’s, which apparently didn’t hurt company sales one bit.