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.
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).
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.
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.