Among other things... Not that it matters what else I sell. I fail to see how the fact that someone might sell sling mounts means that they are incompetent when it comes to AR15's. It proves nothing really, in and of itself.
I work in the industry, I go to the shot show, I know and speak to people at these companies, I have friends and acquaintances at various LE/military agencies who buy/test/field large amounts of AR15's. I also build/fix/shoot AR15's on my own as well. I spend quite a bit of my work and personal time keeping up on all things related to the AR15.
It's something that I am genuinely interested in. I have a just as much as a personal interest in it as I do a professional interest.
BigG claims to simply be a "gun enthusiast with a lot of gun experience, not somebody who learned about guns by playing video games." (was this some kind of assumption on his part that I learned about guns from video games?) Good for him. Does this make him an expert because he didn't learn about guns from video games? Does he deserve a medal?
I mean, this isn't even the point... He said Colt was the best out there (false) and backed up his love for Colt by stating that "LEGO" AR15's (as he called them) don't hold their value (false again as well as irrelevant to the discussion).
You don't even have to be an expert in the industry to call BS on that...
Colt makes a fine weapon. I will even say one of the better ones, but to say that Colt is definitively above all the rest and has no equal is just false. That was my original point and I stand by it.
If he really wants to prove his point, he could provide examples of how exactly Colt is better, what they do, what that procedure/materials used means and how it is beneficial to do it, how it applies to real life (examples are good, preferably first hand), and then prove that
nobody else takes those kinds of precautionary measures. Somehow I doubt we will get to read about that from him.