I don't know the full details, but some shit has gone down over the last week around Karl/InRange and AR15.com & Brownells.
Karl did some woke shit, Arfcom went full boomer and it turned into a bitch-slapping fight.
Caught in the middle is Ian McCollum and Forgotten Weapons. Anyone whos followed Ian knows he stepped away from InRange and Karl a while back, allegedly for time issues.
The fallout from this is the What Whould Stoner Do rifle that was conceived by Ian and Karl as a InRange project, the lower was made by KE Arms and it was sold by Brownells. After the bitchslaps and harsh words were over, brownells who owns arfcom have decided to stop carrying the WWSD rifle and are selling out stock at 30% off.
Meanwhile you have Karl going full "brownells supports racism and transfobia" while Ian is quietly putting out announcements that hes staying the fuck away from all this, and 30% off is a great deal on a good rifle build.
Remember to vet your friends ans business partners, they might fuck you down the line.
And now Karl and Sinistral is throwing shit around a discord accusing Ian of being basically a nazi for working with Larry Vickers, and the Azov book debacle. Funny how Azov suddenly became nazis again.
God I wish you were lying
Can you tl:Dr why either of these are bad to lefties? I don't keep up with gun community drama. I just want to see people shoot and talk about cool guns.
I don't know what the beef with LV is, he's accusing Ian of siding with him when he went full "kill the n-words with hard R". Guessing LV having respect for the Rhodesians is bad maybe, comes back to the Rhodie FAL video I think.
and the Azov thing is funny, basically a guy who was in Azov was selling his book literally months before the invasion. When Headstamp Publishing announced they were going to be publishing it to give the world a first hand account of the war to that point, people freaked about him being a known nazi and Azov being nazis, this was apparently unknown to Ian and Headstamp, and they pulled it quickly.
A few months later Russia invades, and we get the whitewashing of Azov and nazis in Ukraine, now its all Russian propaganda and the funny symbols on their uniforms have nothing to do with anything.
It's just the blatant hypocrisy, and the fact that had the announcement come barely half a year later the same people would have had Ukrainian flags in their twitter and facebook and bought thousands of copies.
Rhodesia was pretty based.
The book thing is dumb. People being over sensitive pansy asses as always. I hate everything.
Thanks for the info.
Kinda failed on the whole tl:dr thing though. And Rhodesia was based as fuck and even the Zimbabweans want to go back.
I stopped watching them because Ian wasn't there.
Good to know I made the right choice. Fucking leftists man.
Also based Brownells.
Karl is a full on literal satanist as well as a hybrid woketard/libertariantard. Fuck him.
I don't understand most of these words.
A notable Youtube gun guy is a communist on all other social issues, non-communist gun guys are fed up with him, and a Youtube gun guy the first guy has worked with is trying to distance himself from the whole thing.
Anyone know if Henry Repeating Arms is like this? Got one of theirs that belongs to my dad. They seem pretty on the level.
Isn’t Ian kind of a cuck himself?
He studiously stays apolitical. Meanwhile, Karl was going full "niggers good" in 2020. I stopped watching InRange because of his bullshit.
The kicker was that back in 2020, there was a screenshot of the InRange discord going around that purportedly showed Karl saying redhats should be shot. At the time Karl claimed that is was just someone spoofing as him. This latest shit shows that it was probably him to begin with. There also were claims that Karl was associated with CHAZ through one of the John Brown Gun Clubs, but that had no real proof.
Remember when they claimed "gun jesus" was running training/security for CHAZ/Antifa and Ian had to put out a video showing he was in Arizona. Always wondered where Karl was at the time.
I don’t trust Ian. When the rumors said that he was running around inside CHOP/CHAZ, he just responded with a half-hearted live stream showing that he was in AZ instead. If I was accused of being a commie, I would have denounced communism with no ambiguity whatsoever. The only reason you go soft on communism is that you have communist sympathies yourself.
I still watch his content because he’s informative and stays apolitical, but I trust him about as far as I can throw him.
I don't think that's a reasonable take on things. You're complaining because he made a strong rebuttal against the accusation (he's on the opposite side of the country) instead of a weak rebuttal (someone you don't trust says he's a good guy).
No, he should have done that but by remaining silent on the accusation that he's militant commie, while being affiliated with a militant commie, it leads credence to that charge.
Not only was it him, he hates MAGA guys far more now. All leftists have radicalized tremendously since 2020.
Ok, I just remembered hearing that he cucked really hard about South Africa on /k/ once awhile back.
In his South Africa videos he pretty much never mentions any of the crap down there other than the source of the firearms.
He ended up removing comments on a video he and Larry Vickers did on Rhodesia/Rhodie FALs.
Maybe, he's avoided politics as far as he can. Even his gun laws coverage is limited. Which I concider appropriate for a historian and historical channel.
He makes some of the best historical contents on YouTube, does it in a unbiased and factual manner and has built up access to museums and private collections around the world. He probably couldn't do that and be like most other guntubers.
Mostly limited to calling the restrictions bullshit, with receipts.
Which is probably saner than the "come and have a go fed-boi, remember to bring your level 4 plates" guys, but I like them to. It's going to get interesting/spicy once the brace rule goes into full effect.
Remember the drama with CRS Firearms and how he’d go on video with the “totally not a lightning link” auto keycards? He was shockedpikachuface when the feds raided him. I thought that he was poking the bear even before the feds kicked his door in.
Remember, I just saw he's posted a few videos on the recent rulings on 922 relating to weed. I hope he wins.
No, he's a "live and let live" type who despises government regulation but he keeps his political options strictly off his Youtube channel. He's been on some long form podcasts where the non-political mask was allowed to slip a little.
TL;DR: He's not Our Guy, but he's also not a jackboot-sucking antifa choad like Karl.
I dont know anything about this guy, was thier signs he was a cuck before or was it out of nowhere?
He still wears a repro german camo smock and drives a VW Thing/kubelwagen. These things are enough to be declared a nazi these days, so I don't know.
Story is he and Ian started working together because Karl was running a lot of the matches in their part of AZ, and even less known Ian was hard to ignore when he shows up to 2-gun matches with WW1 guns and period uniform instead of lycra and race guns.
Not being a boomer fudd on the range makes up for a lot of personality flaws, the shit people have to put up with on ranges in the US can be crazy.
Anyone got a link to the /k/ thread I keep reading about but can’t find? That rifle is a ripoff too. It should be $600, not $1800
Wow, you have absolutely no grasp on the cost of firearms.
Let's look at the individual prices of the components so you can realize just how retarded you are.
Carbon fiber handguard $400
Captured buffer spring $130
Chrome plated BCG $190
Pencil weight barrel $225
KP-15 Stripped lower $150
KE Arms Rekluse trigger group $320
Yeah, it's not gonna cost 600 bucks retard.
Dimwits gonna dimwit.
This is why we never get any real change until shit gets catastrophic, most people will stay on a sinking boat until it's nearly gone out of laziness and ignorance.