- Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the US, says it will stop selling assault-style weapons and will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.
- The CEO said the company was "disturbed and upset" by the shooting earlier this month in Parkland, Florida.
- The 19-year-old suspect in the shooting legally bought a gun from Dick's in November.
Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the US, will stop selling assault-style weapons and will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old, the company's CEO, Ed Stack, announced Wednesday morning.
"We're staunch supporters of the Second Amendment — I'm a gun owner myself," Stack said on "Good Morning America." "We don't want to be a part of this story, and we have eliminated these guns permanently."
In November, Dick's sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting, according to The New York Times.
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"Following all of the rules and laws, we sold a gun to the Parkland shooter in November of 2017," Dick's said in a letter to customers posted on its Facebook page. "It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting. But it could have been."