In a rare move, corporate America presses for gun-control restrictions 'to take a stand'

"This is an issue that's not going away."

So says Edward Stack, the chief executive of Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., whose retail chain is among the private-sector firms tightening their gun-control restrictions - and pressing for such curbs nationwide - in the absence of similar action by Congress.

A group of retailers, major banks, Wall Street money managers and others has joined Dick's and become gun-control activists with their own businesses following the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead and others injured.

More than a dozen companies also ended their discount programs with the National Rifle Assn. immediately after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to distance themselves from the gun lobby. The