Dick’s Sporting Goods lost money when it changed its gun policies. CEO Ed Stack is fine with that.
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🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Post reports are sponsored by the Asset Podcast, produced by the Center for American Progress |
| 0:04.5 | Action Fund, District Productive, and Protect the Investigation. |
| 0:08.7 | The Asset tells the story of Donald Trump and Russia. |
| 0:12.1 | It's about the role of a hostile foreign government in the election of the President of |
| 0:15.8 | the United States. |
| 0:20.4 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:23.6 | This is Elin Nakashima with Washington Post. |
| 0:31.3 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:36.9 | It's Tuesday, June 4th. |
| 0:40.7 | Today by a sporting goods store is selling fewer guns. |
| 0:45.2 | The future of the special relationship with Britain and how one contestant changed |
| 0:49.7 | jeopardy forever. |
| 0:54.6 | Our CFO at that point said, well, we should take a look at the financial ramifications. |
| 1:00.5 | And I said, we should, but I don't really care. |
| 1:05.2 | This is what we're going to do. |
| 1:09.2 | So Edstack is the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods. |
| 1:12.1 | Particularly after Parkland, he learned that the Parkland shooter actually bought a shotgun |
| 1:17.2 | from a Dick store. |
| 1:18.2 | It wasn't the gun that was used in the shooting, but it was one that he had bought a couple |
| 1:21.0 | of months beforehand. |
| 1:23.5 | Business reporter Rachel Segal recently went to Pittsburgh to the headquarters of Dick's |
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