Field & Stream shoppers respond to company's gun control measures
CRANBERRY TWP — While many people traversing the parking lot Wednesday at the Field & Stream store at Cranberry Square had opinions on the company’s controversial decision to stop selling assault-style rifles and raise the age of gun buyers at the store to 21, only a few agreed to share their comments.
Edward W. Stack, the CEO at Field & Stream’s parent company, Dick’s Sporting Goods, announced the changes on Wednesday and implored legislators to enact or support a variety of “common-sense gun reform” measures.
Truck driver Greg Pipilo of Cranberry Township said he is insulted that customers like him — Pipilo purchased an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon soon after the store opened and a handgun since then — are “no longer welcome here.”
“As a truck driver, I’ve stopped my truck from being attacked on two separate occasions with these type of ‘assault’ weapons, as they like to call it,” Pipilo said.
Township resident Michael Leone said he will continue to buy camping gear and other merchandise at Field & Stream.
“If I want to buy a firearm like that, I’ll go someplace else,” Leone said.
Find more customer comments in Thursday’s edition of the Butler Eagle.
