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The ceo of dick's sporting goods says the company will stop selling assault style rifles like the one used in the parkland shooting. alison kosik joins us. what have we learned? >> you'll see change happen before i think you see anything happen with congress. this morning we're hearing from dick's saying no longer will you be able to buy assault-style rifles at its stores. it's taking those weapons off the shelves. just to be clear, it's the dick's sporting goods stores that took the weapons off the shelves years ago after sandy hook. it's the field and stream stores that continue to sell thes...

Locations across the country, those stores continued to sell those assault-style rifles. as of today, according to ceo ed stack, all stores under dick's will no longer car those assault-style rifles and high capacity magazines that make it easier for shooters to shoot round after round after round without having to reload and no dick's will sell any guns to anybody under the age of 21. we're seeing corporate america, stepping up and listening to those kids in parkland and actually doing something, where congress is not doing something. why is ed stack doing this? he spoke to chris cu. mo earli...

Base, brianna. ed stack felt this was necessary to take these messages where congress won't and take these messages for those kids. >> very interesting interview. alison kosik thank you so much in new jersey for us. >> sure. >> this announcement comes as students return to class at marjory stoneman douglas. 17 of their classmates and teachers were killed in their mass shooting weeks ago. photos from inside the school obtained by cnn show a makeshift memorial. there have been a number of these. makeshift memorials on desks, support dogs in the hallways with the students and cnn's kaylee hartung...

So it is a significant move. i think their customer base will just go around them and buy guns. this is what happens when you ban any type of gun or clip or whatever, people get around of existing regulations as it stands. but we're seeing this week something we haven't seen in the wake of almost any other shooting, mass shooting, is that people on the gun side of the equation are finding areas to wiggle. republicans are suggesting -- >> ed stack is a republican. >> donald trump has said a couple of times this week in the white house, hey, look, where is the nra going to go, they have to go to...

Interview, that those kids were being so brave in speaking up and speaking out, within minutes or hours of the situation, of the massacre, and haven't let up. so, you know, gun owners and folks who want to buy guns, they can go around dick's sporting goods, that's fine. but the fact that ed stack and dick's sporting goods have stood up and taken a stand, we'll see if they hold to it, because as you pointed out, after newtown -- >> in newtown they said it was temporary. here they said they're doing it indefinitely. >> right. i think what's happening now, ed stack talked about it and we've been ...