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    Dick's Sporting Goods Ends Sale Of Assault-Style Rifles, Citing Florida Shooting

    CEO Ed Stack announced Wednesday that the company is also banning the sale of all guns to customers under the age of 21. Dick's is one of the country's largest sports retailers.
    by Colin Dwyer Feb 28, 2018 2 minutes
    A statement from Dick's Sporting Goods said, "We have to help solve the problem that's in front of us. Gun violence is an epidemic."

    Updated at 9:40 a.m. ET

    Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the U.S., has announced it is immediately ending its sales of military-style semi-automatic rifles and is requiring all customers to be older than 21 to buy a firearm at its stores.

    Additionally, the company no longer will sell high-capacity magazines.

    CEO Ed Stack announced the decision on ABC's on Wednesday, the same day. Stack said the 19-year-old gunman allegedly behind that massacre, which claimed 17 lives and wounded many more in Parkland, Fla., had purchased a firearm from the retailer last November.

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