coronavirus business

ONLY DICKS: While Gun Shops are Swarmed with Customers, Dick’s Furloughs 40,000 Employees

Dick’s in Bloomington, IL on Tuesday afternoon, April 8. Photo by John Boch. Gun stores across America have long lines of customers waiting to get inside. Dick’s Sporting Goods does not. CEO Ed Stack made…

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Texas County Stay-At-Home Orders Threatening Gun Businesses

Bigstock Texas governor Greg Abbott has been reluctant to issue a state-wide stay-at-home order. As he pointed out in a press conference Monday, almost 200 of Texas’s 254 counties have yet to report a case…


Remington Offers Its Ilion, New York Plant for the Fight Against COVID19 [VIDEO]

Courtesy Remington   Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order shutting down all non-essential businesses in the state. The order shuttered the nation’s oldest firearms manufacturing facility, Remington’s plant in Ilion,…


Ammogeddon II: Stories from the Gun Store Sales Floor [VIDEO]

(AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane) I’m a gun dealer. I’ve seen some crazy stuff over the years and I have some interesting stories. Ever since last Friday, our phones have been ringing off the hook with…


NSSF Asks Homeland Security to Designate Gun Manufacturers, Retailers a ‘National Critical Infrastructure Industry’

Dan Z. for TTAG As more states issue shelter-in-place orders, closing businesses and confining people to their homes unless shopping for food or medicine, the nation’s firearms and ammunition manufacturers have begun to be affected….


BREAKING: Cuomo’s Order Closes Remington’s Ilion, New York Factory

Remington’s Ilion, New York factory, the oldest gun manufacturing facility in America. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) Earlier today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order requiring workers in all “non-essential” businesses in the state…