Re: WARNING ~ tacticalrifles.net ~ My experience
Deja Vu,
Their history here speaks for itself, there is reason you will find no discussion of these rifles on Sniper's Hide, as I bring to your attention, my response to a letter from the Attorney for Tactical Rifles, they failed to respond to me too... and I was so polite.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Dear David Rooney,
Today i received your letter from the Law Offices of John Schwartz, and immediately after reading it one word comes to mind, laughable.
I would welcome the opportunity to defend any of those points in Federal Court, as we both know they are all false and in fact empty threats. Having a lawyer send a letter does not in anyway mean you have any grounds to stand on and in fact only burned any bridge leading to Sniper's Hide you might have had a chance of crossing.
First point, there was not a single point of slander, I understand you had your surrogate post on many sites from Sniper's Hide to Sniper Central, and M4Carbine in order to solicit interest about your rifles. However this back fired as the <span style="font-weight: bold">reputation as read on multiple forums points to an issue of Quality Control which has been experienced by me, first hand.</span> In case your wondering my experience as an industry expert is well known and well regarded, so at no point did I or anyone else engage in public or private "slander" of you or your company. You may not have liked the "reviews" your rifles received, by end users, however these were all factual representations of actual experiences using them. The main point of slander is "falsely" and clearly nothing represented was false as I have a full class of witnesses which I would be happy to parade into Federal Court in order to prove my experience beyond any shadow of a doubt. I don't think it would be hard to use the power of my forum to mine of those, other than myself who have had a some what questionable experience similar to mine.
Next, other builders posting under other names is also a false statement. And if you have evidence of it happening in regards to Tactical Rifles or anyone else within the last 4 years I would welcome evidence. Unknown to those who promote this myth, this happened one time over 4 years ago and since that time Sniper's Hide has installed an option that seeks out multiple accounts and reports on anyone attempting to use more than one account directly to me when and if it happens. I would gladly open up my site's control panel in court and on the record, of the fact that no one, especially a rival gunsmith is engaged in this activity. We actively seek out and punish anyone attempting to engage in this practice and I can tell you that many members have been permanently banned for attempting such things. What happened over 4 years ago to another builder, namely Tac Ops has no bearing on what happened to you. And I'm fully aware of your conversations with Mike of Tac Ops, as this something he promotes but fails to inform that it happened approximately 5 years ago and since that time adjustments to the running of the site has been enabled and dealt with.
As far as denying you access to defend your company on Sniper's Hide, again this is completely false. You never attempted to once contact me on this matter or log onto Sniper's Hide. I will remind you of the incident when a disgruntled employee attempted to attack Tactical Rifles and he was promptly removed by me without any word from you. Afterwards you had no problem reaching out to me giving me thanks for such actions. I happen to still have the email from 2008 when this took place and the exchange between you and I that followed. You are lying when you say you were denied access to the forum. There is no method to deny anyone access who doesn't wish it, and nothing was put in place to block you. You were able to unleash a host of surrogates on Sniper's Hide to speak on your behalf, including certain gun writers who reviewed your rifles. Also the original surrogate who wrote the original post was in contact with you as it was told to me that he forwarded my private message to him on to you. None of those people were prevented from posting and in fact I only closed the post and then deleted at your urging through a 3rd party.
Let's face it, you knew how to reach me has evidence by a previous incident with one of your disgruntled employees, you were able to reach people who immediately called me and it was told to me you were going to <span style="font-style: italic"> "put some fear into me" </span> with a letter from an attorney or something to that effect. This is nothing more than a emotional response to something out of your control and has no basis in the facts of the matter. It was 100% made up by you in an effort to force a position or change something you didn't like and has no legal grounds. If you feel this matter does have legal standing I have an attorney in FLA and would be happy to sit across a table from you, as this isn't my first rodeo and I will not let these blatant falsehoods stand undefended.
I sincerely hope this wasn't your 2010 sales and marketing strategy, threatening the owner of the most popular Tactical Rifles forum on the internet, as I think you have failed completely in your efforts.
Good Day Sir,
Frank L.</div></div>
So here we are two years later right back to the same place with the same old problems we have witnessed before.
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