https://newschannel9.com/sports/outdoors/sportsmans-warehouse-purchased-by-bass-pro-ownersI expect to see the Sportsman's closest to my house shutter its doors under the new management. We have a Bass Pro about 10 miles away (into metro Phoenix/Tempe direction), and a Sportsman's about 2 miles away in the opposite direction headed out of town.
Cabelas and Bass Pro are pretty much mirror images of each other. Sportsman's tends to be quite a bit more low key. Fewer plastic props as overhead (faux hiking terrain near the shoes, fake trees and waterfalls, etc). More accessible gun counter, though still nowhere as accessible as a real LGS. The tent loft area typical to the Sportsman's I've been to are very unrefined, but consume a lot more floorspace by actually having a demo model of most tents set up.
I think the last firearm I bought at a Sportsman's was my Browning BL-22. I've never really liked the feel of handgun shopping there. Just too "big store"-ish. Definitely never bought a pistol at Cabela/BP either. Nor a long gun, nor a bow. I have bought clothing and outdoors gear, just don't like their policies and procedures with firearms examination and sales.
Sportsman's would at least let you dry fire a weapon to examine its trigger. The couple times I've explored firearms at Cabela/BP, it's like the Walmart gun counter with trigger locks and no exceptions. Sometimes I've seen the sales people even fetch a completely different firearm from the stockroom, leaving the one a customer examined and chose, on the rack, rather than boxing that specific firearm he chose.
I expect the board of Great American Outdoors Group to discontinue the dry fire policy, and require trigger locks on floor stock, at Sportsmans. And Corporate Idiocracy will inexorably march onwards.