A sporting goods chain says it�s suspending sales of modern rifles nationwide because of the school shooting in Connecticut.
Dick�s Sporting Goods also says it�s removing all guns from display at its store closest to Newtown, where the massacre took place.
Authorities say a gunman killed 26 people, mostly children, with a military-style rifle at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday after killing his mother. He then killed himself.
A statement posted on Dick�s website expresses sympathy for the victims� families. It says sales of modern sporting rifles will be suspended during �this time of national mourning.�
Dick�s declined to answer Associated Press questions about how long the suspension would last or which weapons were being pulled.
Pittsburgh-based Dick�s Sporting Goods Inc. has more than 500 stores in 44 states.
(AP)
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Shame on them for trivializing the deaths of children. I wonder if there was a car accident and god forbid a bunch of children died would all the car dealerships in the area stop selling cars during the time or morning