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The CEO of dikk’s Sporting Goods says more than $5 million worth of the weapons have been destroyed since the company decided to no longer sell assault-style rifles in the wake of deadly mass shootings.
"I said, 'You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them."
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dikk's CEO says company destroyed $5 million worth of assault rifles
The company turned $5 million worth of the weapons into scrap metal.
He's right
Talk about mental illness all you want, but the root cause of why there are so many mass shootings in America is the huge excess of guns in circulation relative to the population.
Not something it's very easy to make a dent in, in the short term, but I'd like to see limitations on gun production.