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.
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.