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 Stack, the CEO at Field & Stream's parent company, Dick's Sporting Goods, announced the changes 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.

Brad Phillips of Hopewell, Beaver County, said he has 9 mm handguns at his home that he never uses and he has no plans to buy an assault-style rifle.

“It's just a waste of bullets,” Phillips said. “You can shoot a box of bullets in like 30 seconds. There's no need for it.”

Russ Hoffman of the North Hills ascribes to the popular belief that it's not the gun that hurts people.

“I think they ought to leave it up to the people to decide what they want,” Hoffman said. “I actually have ARs. I enjoy target shooting with them.

“I don't see that there's really a problem.”

He said many view the AR-15, which was the weapon used in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, as military weapons because of their appearance.

“Everyone gets scared and thinks it's an Army rifle,” Hoffman said. “Well so was an M1 Garand, so was a Colt 45 and so was a 1903 Enfield.”