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jamessparrow
blackblue is correct, the reason you perceive a bias towards TR is one of their own making. About 4 years ago, they send a shill to several websites, Sniper's Hide, M4Carbine, etc to draw up attention (
rather than be a paid sponsor) and they hit all these sites with a simple question, "
Hey how about Tactical Rifles" or something close to that. The responses were less than flattering. So with an 80% + negative response to this question, plus the fact the guy hit all these sites with the same exact question within minutes of each other, the community did not take kindly to this behavior.
So the response was for TR to sic their lawyer on the site threatening to sue us for the negative comments. They served me their BS letter on a Sunday Afternoon. The problem was, they used an old thread regarding Tac Ops as their basis for the letter from the lawyer. Nothing had anything to do with their post, or the responses and in fact the Tac Ops post was several years prior, and no longer an issue. It was just never removed. My response to them was posted here somewhere, but basically I called it a joke. And removed any discussion of their rifles in any form.
Fast forward several years, and more and more guys were having problems. So we allowed this one thread to warn people against spending the huge amount of money TR charges people, the time issues speak for themselves as does their Quality Control Issues. These are real customers, with real problems and this repeats itself too often.
This site is not just pro GA Precision, although George is a personal friend, they have been here the longest so it's only natural they seem the most popular. However you don't see me "defend" them, as their work and customer service speak for themselves. Over the years many gunsmiths have come and gone, ruined by their own poor service. Once popular gunsmiths took a turn and fell off the map. Others have stepped up and themselves have stellar reputations very much like GA Precision does. There is a list of Smiths on here that people use and praise every week, not just GA Precision. I have personal relationships and talk all the time to several of the smiths on here, and have rifles from a variety of them. I am an admitted Gun Slut and like to try new things...
Understand this, originally this site's first contact with Tactical Rifles was to assist them. A former employee went on a smear campaign and we recognized this and immediately removed the post and the member from engaging in such things. Clearly he was a disgruntled employee looking to smear and we did not want to party to this. We were contacted by TR and they thanked us for doing so. So they had our contact information, we had proven to be pro-business but instead they choose to slide under the radar with a shill, and then use their lawyers when they could have called or emailed and sorted it out. Luckily we don't bow to such pressures. We have the ability to remove all discussion which was our prior policy, or we can help people avoid potential pitfalls. We are not talking about small change, but thousands of dollars, and most of the time, more than a years wait. That is not something we want to ignore.
