Cabela's website has ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE semi-automatic rifles!

[George II]

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[yallerdawg]

1. Cabela's is owned by Bass Pro Shops.

These are as hardcore southern as Cracker Barrel and Waffle House.

[jberryhill]

2. Yes. So?

If you think that some campaign to pressure them is going to be effective, you should know that they are a sponsor of the NRA.

At checkout, they even solicit donations.

They sell Ted Nugent branded merchandise.

[LakeArenal]

3. Havent the kids shown you anything?

Try nothing?

[jberryhill]

5. I really don't understand your comment

This company is joined at the hip with the NRA.

I took a look around the one that opened in my area a while back, and they were selling "Ted Nugent for President" tee shirts, and have a huge NRA seal over the door.

https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2017/2/cabelas-hosts-nra-weekend/

This weekend, February 11-12, Cabela's stores nationwide will be hosting NRA Weekend!

You read that right. Cabela’s attracts outdoors enthusiasts across the country with their assortment of hunting, fishing, camping, shooting, outdoor gear, and this weekend - NRA members.

Cabela’s has teamed up with NRA and this Saturday, Feb. 11 and Sunday, Feb. 12, customers will have the opportunity to purchase or renew their NRA membership and receive a FREE $25 Cabela’s Gift Card!

They are not a general retailer like Wal-Mart or Dick's. They are geared specifically toward survivalists and gun nuts.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/12/20/167721735/financial-ties-bind-nra-gun-industry

And the CEO of Cabela's, the big-box chain that sells sports and outdoors gear, gave the NRA $1 million cash. He was inducted into the association's Golden Ring of Freedom for top donors.

Have you actually ever been inside of one?

[LakeArenal]

6. oh, well, Ted Nugent...

He's too big to fail....

[jberryhill]

7. Again, I don't understand the comment

I don't shop at Cabela's, and their support of the NRA is not any sort of well-kept secret.

Cabela's is one of the arms dealers who is part and parcel of the NRA corporate agenda.

If the idea is to have Cabela's cut ties to the NRA, that's like asking Remington Arms to "cut ties" to the NRA.

Gun nuts ARE their primary customers.

If you want to give them a free advertising campaign to the effect of "Cabela's sells assault weapons", they'd be very happy.

[malthaussen]

4. That's what makes America great, doncha know?

Freedom to choose! Hey, we have over 400 brands of toothpaste, as Colbert told us some years ago.

-- Mal

[kcr]

8. Yeah. Kids getting blown to bits in school is just grand.

School shootin's and toothpaste. Doesn't get more American than that. Say, how did you get so good at making equivalencies?

ETA I realize now yours was probably satire. But it's just so hard to tell anymore. I've seen 'em equated with sillier.

[malthaussen]

14. Referencing Colbert might have given a hint...

... but I agree, we're all living Poe's Law these days. I refuse to use a sarcasm tag, though: if I have to explain, it didn't work, you know?

-- Mal

[Lee-Lee]

9. And?

[hexola]

10. For the youngsters - Cabela's, Bass Pro & Gander Mountain were old world mail order catalog brands

Before we had the internet, this how you got hunting and fishing stuff!

As far back as the 1960s for sure.

Fill out the order form from the middle of the catalog - and send it with a check.

Seems like all these brands made a poorly timed attempt to go brick and mortar.

I think Gander Mountain has already failed in that space.

Looks like Netcraft is still out there! Just fishing stuff though

[kcr]

11. I thought Cabela's was on the way out, too.

But I may have been confusing it with Gander Mountain.

[hexola]

13. I think you are correct

I think they are closing stores too - down to a few bigger stores...?

[jberryhill]

16. They just opened one in northern Delaware a few months back

What's annoying is that northern DE is a largely urban/suburban area along the I-95 Northeastern metro corridor. There is nowhere to hunt nearby, and only a very limited area (down by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal) where anyone can safely and legally get out and shoot. There are, like, two public shooting ranges within 50 miles, absent crossing a state line.

For most of my lifetime here, there were something like three small gun shops, and one of those made most of its revenue from fishing and crabbing supplies, but also catered to reloaders.

Into this mix, Cabela's dropped this freaking huge palace of guns, guns and MOAR GUNZ, because, yeah, that's just what this area needed.

[FarCenter]

12. Actually more, since some items come in multiple calibers, magazine capacity, other options.

[tritsofme]

15. There is a pub near here with over 100 beers on tap! Some with pretty high ABV!

But that’s what their customers and I expect...because it is a pub that specializes in having a large selection of beer.

[Bonx]

17. Is that a lot?

[beachbum bob]

18. if cabelas/bass pro shop announce an end to AR sales, that would be like a nuke explosion on

NRA

so it will not happen, at least, not yet