Bullshit.
And yes, I designed the Ti-Rant, Titan, QD mounts, Omni, Prodigy, Mk-13SD, Cyclone, 762-SD, N6, 300SD, M4-2000, 416-SD, SR5, SR7, 10/22-SD, etc. And I was in charge of and managed all programs at AAC. Your patent searches show you this. These products actually won .mil contracts and have NSN's. Oh, and we created the largest, most successful commercial silencer company to date.
It was a successful team, but what have AAC, Mike, Robert, and Hunter done since Ethan and I left? Everyone here knows what Ethan and I have done the past few years.
You simply post outrageous "testing" results against accomplished, innovative companies to gain attention. You and Griffin copy other companies. Big deal.
That's very interesting, especially because Hunter came up with the TiRant baffles on his own in his basement. How do I know? Because when I was visiting AAC he and Mike Smith and a couple others told me all about it and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. The QD mounts were designed by Mongo, according to Mongo, and he doesn't have a reason to make that up. Granted it could be he just refined it for AAC, but either way the 18T mount and its evolutions are just a copy of HK's barrel ratchet and spring for flash hider retainment, like on the HK93. I know that because I've had two old HK rifle barrels sitting in my office for the last 1.5 years with that feature on them. That feature on the flash hider was taken and put on a silencer. Very simple to see that. There's nothing wrong with that either.
Taking things from HK and Brugger & Thomet and Ase Utra and A-Tec and Roedale and the rest of the European and international markets and making them into your own with a re-skin and baffle change then taking credit for the original technology seems to be your thing still. There's not much wrong with that either, but marketing it to make people think you invented it isn't helping anyone. Since HKs patent on thread together baffles expired, your marketing of the Erector series to make potential customers think you invented it, "innovated it", is just doing a disservice to the customer. Not everyone buying silencers is as hyper educated in what's available and who makes what why and what's inside and who did it first, and so they start to believe you invented it because you use buzzwords like "innovation" and saying everyone else who makes a thread together baffle stack would be a copy of the Erector series to plant that seed in their head. But that's marketing, to a point.
While your designers did do it better than anyone else previously by styling, material choice, construction, and baffle design, your problem is it makes you think it gives you license to trash other companies that want to utilize HKs freely available technology. Then your potential customers see what they think is other silencer companies "copying" Q by using thread together baffles or exterior welds or whatever it may be and they rush to your defense and help you beat down the voices of other companies and spread your rumors for you. I used to be the one who would do exactly that for you ten years ago without being asked at the drop of a hat, but that was a huge mistake.
You could look up the CGS Hydra Orion baffle patent application, where in the drawings you'll find simple thread together baffles that I modeled up referencing HKs patent. The really funny part is that was filed in December 2015, before Q was even a company. [sarcasm]Why don't you stop copying CGS? [/sarcasm]
That whole bit makes you think you can call out and bully other companies for "copying" you, even though it's not your tech to begin with. You weren't even the first to do it in the US. Sit down.
And come on now, everyone knows the Titan/Prodigy/MK13SD all share the same basic core design, "Hyposone Technology", that came from Robert Silvers. All one needs to do is go on Silencer Talk to figure that out.
The M4-2000 in the Mod 08 config and the 416-SD in Mod 08 config are the same silencer with a different roll mark. That's what AACs employees were telling everyone. But the original 416SD with the banded tube, some plug welds, and IIRC the first to have the 51 tooth mount is a separate silencer, albeit probably with a 2006/7 M4-2000 core. Some people may get confused by that. You shouldn't name them separately without specifying generation when it could be inferred that they're the same thing just so you can add to your alleged design resume. Maybe you came up with the infamous "butthole" end cap circa 2006. Quite fitting.
In your case, when you tell people that you "designed" something, you need to specify which generation and model you're claiming to have completely designed by yourself, or say you didn't design it by yourself and give credit where credit is due. Because designing the original M4-2000/762SD in 2004 or 2006, whenever it came out, is a lot different than designing the Mod 08 versions by yourself. But we already know that you didn't design the Titan all by yourself, so why are you sitting here taking credit for the whole design? When I saw you at Texas Gun Fest in Austin I asked you how Mike Smith was doing, and you told me he was quote, "lazy and wasn't a hard worker". Which I thought was weird because he designed most of AACs stuff and I know him to be a really good person. And another one of AACs employees also told me that the SR5/SR7 was a Silvers/Smith project.
When Ethan was at AAC he worked on the Honey Badger project primarily according to other AAC employees and, if I remember right, also the MG-SD belt fed silencer. Then at SIG he was a handgun engineer on the P320 and probably a few other firearms before/concurrently he started doing SIGs silencer line. But that was the extent of his involvement in AAC silencers. Ethan is a great person and does innovate great stuff, we both know that, but don't overstate his involvement with AAC silencers to make yourself look good now while trashing all of those other designers that did the vast majority of the design and innovation that made AACs silencers great.
I've heard so many stories of early AAC silencers just being copies of Gemtech silencers back in the early/mid 2000s, and all those stories I didn't believe for years turned out to be very true. Attaching your name to your designers patents because you own the company doesn't mean you designed the whole thing. Maybe you had a role in the development and input your own ideas, which is a valid reason to put your name on a patent, but you can't sit there and take credit for the whole thing when it's got AACs actual designer(s) listed as the inventor(s).
Maybe you'd like to tell the class about how when you were copying Gemtech stuff in the early 2000s you even copied their manual right down to the same exact typos? I think most would've forgotten about that by now, but not me. Or maybe you'd like to tell everyone where the Evo series ASAP booster housing assembly really came from? Because I remember defending you on that during the Tundra debacle on Arfcom, but I was very wrong to come to your defense. So maybe you had a hand as a project manager in telling the designers "yes" or "no" on products and suggested some geometry or feature changes in a design as any good project manager would, but you didn't completely design all of those silencers by yourself. I know that's not true, your own employees know that's not true, and the people that actually did design them know that's not true.
You trash the AAC employees that testified against you in the Remginton lawsuit. You told me all about Cory, remember?
And let's not forget the two new accounts in this thread that immediately went to bat for Q, despite one of them saying the welds weren't right and the reason why one could fail. Quite suspicious timing.
Or are those just all blasphemous lies too?
I will say this: Q does innovate and does make great stuff and has great designers, and you yourself are great at marketing products and hiring the right people. It was the opportunity you gave me 11 years ago when I was just a random nobody 16 year old kid from California that gave me hope to one day be a great designer in the silencer industry. AAC was the first silencer website I found and back then I thought it was the coolest thing in the world and I was excited to have the opportunity to be a part of it one day. But that opportunity came and went and I couldn't take advantage of it. But I've moved on from there to bigger and better things and helped start CGS Group LLC, where our company and your company had good and civil interactions and you were friendly with us, just like we were friendly with you. That was until you decided to start spreading lies about CGS to your 23,000 Instagram followers and on forums and wherever else your voice was able to be heard. Most recently where you bring up CGS most if not all of your Q & A** Podcasts saying how we're liars and ruining the industry. That's despicable and wrong. That's why we are where we are now. Not because of anyone but you, and you have no one to blame but yourself.
If there's anything people are finally learning about you, it's that you really like to take credit for the achievements of others in your incubator, and those outside of it too. You're the Erlich Bachman of the silencer industry.
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