The free market can be greatly influenced by public opinion and large-scale political movements, such as the pro-gun control movement led by the courageous survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida. In many cases, the free market can be more easily influenced by political movements than politicians can be influenced by them. Case in point: the decision by Dick's Sporting Goods, a chain of sporting goods, hunting, and fishing stores, to stop selling assault weapons and high-capacity magazines at its stores and toughen the requirements to purchase firearms from all of its stores, including raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm from Dick's Sporting Goods to 21 years of age. Dick's Sporting Goods is under the same ownership as the Field and Stream store chain, so their new policies regarding gun sales apply to Field and Stream stores as well as Dick's Sporting Goods stores. Additionally, Walmart, which sells firearms at many of thei...
Sports and politics from a progressive perspective