The lawsuit paints a pretty damning picture for Dick’s Sporting Goods. (Photo: Penn.)
Battle Born Munitions is taking Dick’s Sporting Goods to court, accusing them of shady business practices that wound up costing the company over $5 million. Battle Born is looking to get their millions back plus just over $200,000 in damages.
The lawsuit makes the case that Dick’s Sporting Goods warehoused Battle Born ammo – under Dick’s Field and Stream house brand – in an attempt to inflate their stock value.
In the process of tying up millions of dollars’ worth of ammo, Dick’s delayed making payments on schedule to Battle Born Munitions. This would leave Battle Born unable to hold up their end of a deal with the state of Lebanon for 12 Bell helicopters, costing them even more.
The lawsuit accuses Dick’s on three counts including breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, and negligent misrepresentation.
“Dick’s ordered excessive amounts of ammunition branded with their house brand, ‘Field & Stream,'” reads the complaint. “Vendors were unable to re-sell the branded ammunition to a third-party due to Dick’s branding, both on boxes and head stamp.
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The once-popular sporting goods chain is seeing low earnings and poor customer turnout after favoring gun control. (Photo: Dick’s)
“Vendors had no option but to involuntarily warehouse the ammunition on Dick’s behalf until such time as Dick’s determined that demand was sufficiently high for it to manipulate retail prices,” it continues. “To this end, Dick’s failed to make any reasonable effort to market the house-brand ammunition during the key holiday-season sales period.”
“Dick’s did not widely distribute house-brand ammunition to its stores, nor did it promote sales in its retail brochures,” explains the lawsuit. “Meanwhile, competing brands of ammunition were provided significantly higher in-store marketing profiles and support, and the house-branded ammunition was offered for retail at a significantly higher price point than was represented to vendors.”
Battle Born had plans to use the earnings as a down payment on 12 Bell helicopters. The company spent over a year dealing with the government of Lebanon and the United States to gain approval for the deal.
Allegedly, because Dick’s failed to pay in time and in full, Battle Born was unable to go forward with the deal, said to be worth over $37 million. It’s becoming apparent that it’s not just politics driving vendors and customers away, it’s also bad business.
This would hardly be the first time that Dick’s has turned it’s back on gun owners and the gun industry. The company has taken a pro-gun-control stance, limiting the sale of guns to only people 21 and over and no longer selling modern sporting rifles.
As a result, not only have gun owners begun boycotting Dick’s, prominent vendors like Mossberg and Springfield have severed business ties with the company.
Well I certainly hope Dicks Dicks have to shutter their doors PERMANENTLY…!!!
Well goodbye Dicks that’s another fine mess you got yourselves in …oh and no AR15 owners or sportsmen who own guns will shop in your stores ….hurry up and close your doors it’s only a matter of time before your shareholders and non customers shut you down
Dicks is getting exactly what they deserve!
Keep spreading the word how they are anti second ammendment!
I just drive right on by…….
Hopefully, Dick’s Sporting Goods will be a thing of the past.
Limp Dick’s Sporting Goods should be the new name.
If guns are so bad, Why does Dick’s sporting just sell exercise shorts and treadmills?
Would this have anything to do with all the new restrictions on ammo in calif?
I went to a Dicks Sporting goods once….Prices were so high I’ve never been back. And after their attack on the second amendment I definitely won’t be going back
KARMA, isn’t it a bitch!
I feel for Battle Born.
Dicks just needs to go away
If they lose this case, Dick’s will be smaller!
Dicks will end up going out of business just like Gander Mtn, Galyans, and Sports Authority. There will then be a ton of cheap Field and stream ammo for the masses to grab up at discount prices. good for shooters! Bad for Dicks stock holders
Awesome news. I hope Battle Born winds up owning these losers at Dick’s.
I haven’t been in a Dick’s store in at least 4 or 5 years. Their pandering to the anti-gun nuts has enabled me to spend my $$$ elsewhere.
We were in the process of making an order from Dick’s when they pulled the Aare 15‘s from the shelf. We never did place the order and have scratched the name bitch we are dicks should’ve been, I’m thankful we never did go through with the purchase it was $7000 an outdoor gear. Text phone number is no longer in our registry, All tires are severed forever, same with Levi Nike Nordstrom to mention a few other ones.
did you even read your message. if you run a company it must be doing great with your great typing and spelling.
What? New trouble for dicks?
I love hearing good news in the morning.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is getting what they deserve for abandoning gun owners to appease the gun-hating liberals. I hope they go down in flames.
“Dick’s” How appropriate!
maybe they should change their name….lol
I wonder if “Pussies” would be more fitting a name.
Would not waste the time of day going there.
When it comes to Second Amendment issues, firearms and ammunition, Dick’s is about as sleazy as it gets.
I had a Dicks credit card and used the point system to buy Nike sneakers . After they stopped selling black rifles, I cancelled my credit card and haven’t been in there since. I also stopped buying Nike and Levi products because of their political stands . I can’t understand why the stores get into politics. Which ever way they go, their going to anger the other side. Why can’t they just sell their products and leave politics to the politicians.
Think I read last month that the plaintiff dropped this case.
Hopefully Dicks will get what they deserve. Not selling AR pattern guns was one thing, destroying inventory was another but hiring anti-gun lobbyists is quite another. i wonder what the stockholders think about the board? If they are a bunch of SJWs I hope they get this jammed where the sun doesn’t shine.
They’re probably too busy holding their monthly Rainbow Coalition meetings in the Executive boardroom or redesigning their restrooms to simultaneously accommodate children, transexuals, and pedophiles.
They lost me right after Sandy Hook when the pulled AR platform rifles. NOT. ONE. DIME.
Disk’s is a serious bunch of Dicks. Stick it to ’em like they are sticking it to us.
This firm is aptly named. Haven’t darkened the doors there in years. Doubt I’ll be going back anytime soon.
I hope that they win and upon further review that despite them going for 5.4 that the jury awards them 42 million due to costing them the other deal. Actually I want them to force Dick’s to close all doors.
Well this just sounds like a giant cluster, ah whats the word I;m looking for?
I think the words you’re looking for are “group fornication”.