Sears stopped selling firearms in 1988. Sears never made firearms, they contracted other gun companies to make guns for them under the Sears brand name.
Sears stopped selling firearms in 1988. Sears never made firearms, they contracted other gun companies to make guns for them under the Sears brand name.
Sears used the brand names J C Higgins and Ted Williams. They dropped that line in 1989.
Sears never made firearms. They "branded" firearms from firearms makers with their name as part of a contract.
Sears stopped selling firearms in 1988. Sears never made firearms, they contracted other gun companies to make guns for them under the Sears brand name.
In 1981 they changed the company name to Sears Merchandising Group
Sears officially dropped "Roebuck" from its name in 2018 when it began operating simply as "Sears." The company, originally known as Sears, Roebuck and Company, had been founded in 1893, but the "Roebuck" name gradually became less prominent over the years. The change reflected the company's ongoing efforts to modernize its brand and streamline its identity as it faced financial challenges.
Public pressure from people who didn't feel it was right for sears to sell guns.. They stopped selling them by 1988. Montgomery Wards and JC Penny also stopped around the same time.
They haven't
If you mean Target department stores, the stores in my area never sold firearms.
Lack of profit
70s
Winchester stopped all firearms production in December of 1980. The U.S. Repeating Arms Compnay ceased production of the Model 94 in March of 2006.