i worked at both gaylans and dicks in fair lakes and both are very anti carry!
i worked behind the gun counter when it was still galyans, we were not allowed to carry on the clock but we could carry loaded mags, so we stocked the top shelf of the glock section with .40 cal's
. galyans was very anti carry for it customers too. ALL guns where to be checked and handled by an employee not matter what. if you didn't want my bogger hooks all over your shiney 1911, dont bring it in. gaylans also had some weird long gun policies, like no black rifles, no extended mags, no para military ext. but this isn't the forum to disscuss that.
dicks is so anti gun it's not even funny........ they are a non carry store the same as galyans. i asked multiple times when it changed hands and was told by the store mang., district mang., and corp that dicks is a non carry store. they sell guns to make money and thats it, they dont not care about the shooting community nor the sport of hunting. they killed the sale of handguns in the fair lakes location, that location was one of the number one gun counters on the east coast...... i would regularly have a $5k+ day in sales of guns alone, but alas dicks hates us.
i would also advise people not to have their guns serviced there, no one is trained at ALL! they may know how to sell stuff but i wouldn't trust bore sighting a scope much less any repair work(which is contracted out by the way)
i ended up leaving dicks after a month, i returned a few years later to run the bike dept., that didnt last long, dicks is one of the worst companies to work for hands down.
oh and all my buddies who worked with me at galyans either work for blue ridge arsenal or the NRA now. hell john boy works for aimpoint now