st. louis post that if we really want to get this gun violence problem under control then we got to start making new law. is that going to solve the problem? because from my vantage point, there is a lot of straw purchases being made and a lot of filing of serial numbers off of guns in new york city. no, you are right. we miss you. i know you are in no. god love you. you can t hardly get anything up there but in st. louis, this is crazy. so i lived in downtown st. louis. i can see the arch from my backyard. i could smell the hops and barley and everything else heiser bush. when my kids went to play out in the street and ride their bike, everybody felt cool can that happening because they knew i was armed. we had a drug bend that opened up at the end of my street. it wasn t the gun that was doing it criminals kept getting rereleased from bad prosecutors and weak judges, a judicial rot. in fact, it was my side arm that
united were trying to get away from being on other side of the flash point. the problem is that doesn t work because when you withdraw the discount it is as if you did something against the nra. yes. so i think those companies are doing their best to stay out of politics and not necessarily succeeding at it whereas dick s went out of their way to make a statement that had a lot to do with politics because the ceo felt a social obligation. he said to skakate snow, we found out we sold a shooter in parkland, it wasn t the gun but when we looked at that we followed the rules and he was able to buy a gun from us so we decided we needed to take a stand here. what remains to be seen is whether others will see the need to stake a stand or stay out of it. we ll follow up more. thank you. okay. coming up next, new questions are being asked about whether jared kushner s family business is profiting from the white house. a lot of people are answering
immediately and will no longer sell those high-capacity magazines that make it easier for a shooter to fire off those weapons without having to reload. dick s saying also it won t sell any gun to anyone under the age of 21. now, interestingly enough, as you heard in that little sound bite that you played, after the shooting the folks at dick s went through their purchasing records and found out that nikolas cruz, the shooter in parkland, had actually purchased a shotgun legally at a dick s store, but it wasn t the gun that was used in the shooting at the high school massacre, and it wasn t even the type of weapon that was used in the shooting. but the ceo making a point to say we are doing this for the kids, and we are doing this because we hear your voices and because we re not seeing any action on gun violence thus far. so we re going to take action into our own hands. alison kosik, live in new jersey, thank you. up next, a suspicious letter
sure. i want to start with an interview that kate snow did with the ceo of dick s, who explains why they made this decision. take a look and i ll get your reaction on the other side. what hit home for us is we found out in november, we sold the shooter in parkland a shotgun. it wasn t the gun, nor was it the type u of gun used in the shooting. when we looked at that, we followed all the rules. we did exactly what we were supposed to do. is and he was able to buy a gun from us. and we felt there s something wrong. the system is in place are not sufficient to be able to stop this. so we decided we need to take a stand here. josh, pretty strike iing to r him speak in such personal terms about this tragedy. what do you make of that? i think we re seeing two different sets of business stories here out of this. you have seen a number of companies that have withdrawn deals with the nra. car rental companies no longer doing discount programs with
dick s is making a cultural move here. ed stack said as soon as they heard about the shooting, the company went through their retail efforts and saw nikolas cruz, the shooter in parkland, did buy a gun, not an assault rifle, from a dick s. it wasn t the gun used in the massacre. he said, it came to us we could have been part of this story. we said, we don t want to be part of this any longer. this is difficult, for ceos across the board, in the charlottesville riots, you saw the rioters wearing adidas and polo, and those companies are saying, what are we associating ourselves with? what we re seeing is business has a conscious. ed stack saw he was a part of something, unwittingly, that he didn t want to be a part of. and i think more importantly, and i think he said this in this