{"id":1270,"date":"2015-07-23T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/07\/23\/mda-claiming-false-victories\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:43","slug":"mda-claiming-false-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"MDA Claiming False Victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10340,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/hasnt-bought-gun-there-has-she.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10341,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ar15.com\\\/forums\\\/t_1_5\\\/1770869_Have_Academy_Sports_and_Dicks_caved_to_Everytown_s__NoCheckNoGun_campaign_.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ar15.com\\\/forums\\\/general\\\/Have_Academy_Sports_and_Dicks_caved_to_Everytown_s__NoCheckNoGun_campaign_\\\/5-1770869\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10342,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ar15.com\\\/forums\\\/t_1_5\\\/1770869_Have_Academy_Sports_and_Dicks_caved_to_Everytown_s__NoCheckNoGun_campaign_.html&amp;page=1#i54724929&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ar15.com\\\/forums\\\/general\\\/Have_Academy_Sports_and_Dicks_caved_to_Everytown_s__NoCheckNoGun_campaign_\\\/5-1770869\\\/?page=1&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nMoms Demand Action has never been above claiming a victory where there is none. I came across the picture below yesterday. It seemingly shows Academy Sports and Outdoor stores changing their policy because of a push from the Demanding Mommies. <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/hasnt-bought-gun-there-has-she.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As I mentioned last week<\/a>, they are on a campaign to get Cabela&#8217;s to kow-tow to their demands regarding the erroneously named &#8220;incomplete checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AcademySports.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AcademySports.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>They also posted a similar photo regarding Dick&#8217;s. Now I don&#8217;t care really what Dick&#8217;s does because I think they live up to their name post-Newtown.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the Academy Sports website to see if they had any press release regarding this. I came up empty. Likewise, I came up empty on the Everytown Facebook page. Now it gets me to wondering if they just contrived this out of thin air. So I went to that fount of all knowledge, AR15.com, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ar15.com\/forums\/t_1_5\/1770869_Have_Academy_Sports_and_Dicks_caved_to_Everytown_s__NoCheckNoGun_campaign_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a message on the General Forum asking about it<\/a>. Out of the 88 replies, I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ar15.com\/forums\/t_1_5\/1770869_Have_Academy_Sports_and_Dicks_caved_to_Everytown_s__NoCheckNoGun_campaign_.html&amp;page=1#i54724929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a> that seems to indicate Academy policy has always been to only release a firearm when they got a definitive OK. Bear in mind that this is from a part-time employee and not a store manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>I work at Academy part time. Its 21 for handguns and pistol grip shotguns. 18 for long guns, period. I can&#8217;s even show a handgun or pistol grip shotgun to anyone under 21. But if you&#8217;re 18, you can buy any long gun. Academy won&#8217;t sell a gun without a &#8220;Proceed&#8221; or a CCW (at least in MS). IDK about historical data as I have only been there about 2 months.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other comments seem to indicate that this policy probably came down from their risk management department a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>So is Academy Sports and Outdoors kow-towing to the Demanding Mommies? Probably not. They had, and have, a policy in place regarding NICS checks that was more stringent than called for by law. It&#8217;s not a victory because nothing was changed when Shannon and her minions came calling. It is a policy they like but it wasn&#8217;t a win.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moms Demand Action has never been above claiming a victory where there is none. I came across the picture&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2197,529,919],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-sports-and-outdoors","tag-moms-demand-action","tag-nics-checks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10404,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/10404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}