Karl Kasarda / InRangeTV / 2gACM / Karl-InRangeTV - satanist cuckold guntuber with cringe haircut and a Kubelwagen hates yt

[Meat Target]

Ian is at least in his 40s, like Karl, and isn't married

He says he has a wife.

I quit following Ian once he did that stupid thing where he dressed up like Jesus and played into the "gun Jesus" meme. I always hated that.

Aw, don't be such a sourpuss.

 

[ellroy]

I only know about Karl because /k/logs won't shut up about him whenever Ian is brought up. He's a cuck which is plenty of reason to avoid watching him in an already saturated market. But I feel like I should play satanist's advocate:
He helped design a rifle with widespread acclaim, going to tattle to Brownells on twitter is gay.
He is IRL friends with Ian, C&Rsenal, James Reaves, and even Dugan Ashley, so he can't be all bad. In one of their podcasts Othais said, (paraphrasing heavily), "Karl is an edgelord that loves to argue for the sake of arguing. " That sheds some light on why he would share very inflammatory views when it would obviously piss off his audience, everyone acts more retarded on the internet than they do IRL. It doesn't do much to explain why he would admit he was a cuck, or proudly announcing he's a satanist when he has a business deal with a very conservative company, that's just oversharing indicative of a budding lolcow.
If anyone that still likes him is reading this, they should probably tell him to cool it with purposefully trying to piss off and pick fights with his core audience and business partners, that has never ended in anything but a top-tier lolcow.

As you are being informed by others, Karl didn't design anything. He just consulted on what he thinks would be the ultimate AR. Polymer lowers existed before the KE arms lower but they aren't popular because AR owners generally want what the military has which is an aluminum lower and upper. Now that two gun with pistol and rifle is becoming very mainstream, there is a market for lightweight gamer rifles, albeit still small in my opinion given that the big name manufactures haven't bothered making polymer lowers yet.

If I recall correctly Karl scoffs at any military experience as just wrong compared to his experience from chilling on the range. I'm sure he thinks the made for cable TV Pentagon Wars movie is a documentary as well.

No, Karl will heed anecdotal accounts from US service members if it supports what he believes. I believe the term that describes it is "confirmation bias."

I don't understand why a gentleman scholar like Ian McCollum would associate with this bozo.

Ian is still an amateur historian and falls for fuddlore occasionally. I give him credit for trying though. He definitely had to work hard to build his brand.

 

[Devious Dave]

He says he has a wife.

Aw, don't be such a sourpuss.

Well that's cool he's at least married then maybe I judged to harshly with that
What pissed me off about the gun Jesus thing was you know he'd never dress up like Muhammad or disrespect any other religions it's always just Christianity

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

I never got the autism with the forward assist. Yes stoner didn't want it. He still fucking did it because he was asked to, and as with Rittenhouse, it does work, and if you don't want to use it, well fine. Never push the button. But it does work.

I see it as just a thing for autists to fight over just like the people who wanted it on the gun in the early days of the AR. I for one never slam the bolt home in any of my guns I simply just re-rack it. My AR's don't have forward assists since just like my other guns I just re-rack the bolt, also saves some weight.

 

[Captain Manning]

Holy shit! I didn't know Karl was this bad! I tend to watch Forgotten Weapons more than InRange.

I hope Ian never goes cow. That's gonna be a genuinely sad day if he does.

After seeing the drama Ian whipped up with his anti Rhodesian comments after his Larry Vickers FAL collaboration video I'm inclined to believe he likely shares similar opinions but is smart enough to not fly off the handle on the internet like Karl, or at the least learn from Karl's episodes that it isn't a good idea.

I've heard conflicting stories about that mess. Some people say that Ian stabbed Vickers in the back, while others say that the whole thing simply got way too autistic.

There was also that time Ian was gonna put out a book about the Ukraine War, but it turned out the guy he was collaborating with was part of Azov Battalion. He ended up shitcanning the whole thing and deleting the videos (these are archives).

I can see how some people will accuse him of cucking, but I also think the poor man simply wants to do videos about firearms and their history and he's probably paranoid he's gonna get yeeted at any moment. If you ask me, Ian has a winning formula and he absolutely shouldn't get political. Not everything has to be political.

 

[Meat Target]

Well that's cool he's at least married then maybe I judged to harshly with that
What pissed me off about the gun Jesus thing was you know he'd never dress up like Muhammad or disrespect any other religions it's always just Christianity

That may be true in other cases, but fans have called him "Gun Jesus" long before that, because he kinda looks like Jesus.

I don't think he was being disrespectful or sacreligious at all. Just rolling with the memes.

 

[Mikoyan]

Dugan Ashley

He now calls Dugan an insane anti-Semite.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Holy shit! I didn't know Karl was this bad! I tend to watch Forgotten Weapons more than InRange.

I hope Ian never goes cow. That's gonna be a genuinely sad day if he does.


I've heard conflicting stories about that mess. Some people say that Ian stabbed Vickers in the back, while others say that the whole thing simply got way too autistic.

There was also that time Ian was gonna put out a book about the Ukraine War, but it turned out the guy he was collaborating with was part of Azov Battalion. He ended up shitcanning the whole thing and deleting the videos (these are archives).

I can see how some people will accuse him of cucking, but I also think the poor man simply wants to do videos about firearms and their history and he's probably paranoid he's gonna get yeeted at any moment. If you ask me, Ian has a winning formula and he absolutely shouldn't get political. Not everything has to be political.

Everybody loves reading a lot into what Ian says or does, but honestly I think he's just a normie who mostly just wants to grill. Given he seems to be pretty popular with the rest of the gun community around his area (I got family around there and they've spotted him at the range once or twice), I'd say he's at least smart enough to hide any powerlevel there too.

Either way, he's said it multiple times he doesn't have time to bother much with social media, and the Donbas War book made it pretty clear he doesn't keep up with much online, unless people are literally screaming in his face. He wants to talk about old guns and politics mostly just seem to get in the way. I don't think you'll ever catch him calling anyone a niggerfaggot, but at the same time I don't think he'll be putting on a sparkly tutu and volunteering for Drag Queen Story Hour anytime soon either.

 

[Trig.Point]

There was also that time Ian was gonna put out a book about the Ukraine War, but it turned out the guy he was collaborating with was part of Azov Battalion. He ended up shitcanning the whole thing and deleting the videos (these are archives).

I can see how some people will accuse him of cucking, but I also think the poor man simply wants to do videos about firearms and their history and he's probably paranoid he's gonna get yeeted at any moment. If you ask me, Ian has a winning formula and he absolutely shouldn't get political. Not everything has to be political.

Regarding the book on the Azov Bn. What was almost certainly going to happen, was that a group of permanently online lefties, would cause enough shit so that large institutions such as Royal Armories would never be able to have any dealings with him. As soon as they got a reputable source such as Mother Jones to write an article saying he was promoting NAAZIs then he'd have been fucked.

Ironically Karl isn't in such a vulnerable position, however he's a true believer.

 

[Captain Manning]

That may be true in other cases, but fans have called him "Gun Jesus" long before that, because he kinda looks like Jesus.

Yeah, I honestly didn't find that video offensive at all. It was actually pretty funny.

Karl, being Satanist and all, might have done something like that just to piss people off, but Ian was leaning into a joke that's been around for probably almost as long as Forgotten Weapons has. The whole Gun Jesus thing was started by his fanbase, and not him.

He now calls Dugan an insane anti-Semite.

To be completely fair to Karl on this particular point, Dugan does seem to have gone more than a little cuckoo for Coco Puffs. Some people have speculated his MS is fucking with his brain.

I think where Karl falls down is pulling the Soviet tactic of deleting any evidence of prior content collaboration. Like, who cares? If you don't want to collaborate with the guy anymore, just don't. The old content doesn't retroactively become bad. Ian has left all his collaborations with Vickers up. Even the ones that plug Larry's books.

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[Mikoyan]

Yeah, I honestly didn't find that video offensive at all. It was actually pretty funny.

Karl, being Satanist and all, might have done something like that just to piss people off, but Ian was leaning into a joke that's been around for probably almost as long as Forgotten Weapons has. The whole Gun Jesus thing was started by his fanbase, and not him.


To be completely fair to Karl on this particular point, Dugan does seem to have gone more than a little cuckoo for Coco Puffs. Some people have speculated his MS is fucking with his brain.

I think where Karl falls down is pulling the Soviet tactic of deleting any evidence of prior content collaboration. Like, who cares? If you don't want to collaborate with the guy anymore, just don't. The old content doesn't retroactively become bad. Ian has left all his collaborations with Vickers up. Even the ones that plug Larry's books.

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I'm not sure where anyone thought he was all that sane to begin with.

As to 'who cares', Karl's friends do. Leftists will not tolerate you having been around people with wrongthink - even if they weren't having those thoughts then, or if it was years ago.

 

[Trig.Point]

He now calls Dugan an insane anti-Semite.

Oh shit, that video he did with Dugan riffing on ghost was hilarious.... When did this happen?

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Yeah, the sad reality is, Ian probably is pretty similar to Karl. I mean, they both went down the libertarian pipeline and came out on the wrong side. Ian is at least in his 40s, like Karl, and isn't married or has kids (as far as I know), so it's not hard to believe he's a "drag queen story hour" aficionado as well. On a side note, I quit following Ian once he did that stupid thing where he dressed up like Jesus and played into the "gun Jesus" meme. I always hated that. I will say this he is a lot smarter than Karl the cuck able to for the most part separate his politics from business which is respectable

Ian has a wife and he occasionally mentions her, particularly in his Field to Table videos.

Regardless of ideological bent, Ian strikes me as a pragmatist, first and foremost.

 

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On a side note, I quit following Ian once he did that stupid thing where he dressed up like Jesus and played into the "gun Jesus" meme. I always hated that.

You quit following forgotten weapons because Ian dressed up as jesus for a halloween shooting match?

 

[ellroy]

@Trig.Point

In the OP, can you include the ARFCOM posts where Karl says he will never post on ARFCOM again but then on Christmas morning, he does one of many posts where he tries to own the haters.

I think it will help paint a picture of a lonely, contrarian that sought out ARFCOM for companionship Christmas morning, because Travis got to keep his "girlfriend" for the holidays.

 

[Captain Manning]

I'm not sure where anyone thought he was all that sane to begin with.

Honestly, I thought Dugan was putting on an act in all those CarnikCon videos.

Turns out, maybe all of that wasn't all that much of an act. Or, like I said, he's not doing so well because of the MS diagnosis.

Oh shit, that video he did with Dugan riffing on ghost was hilarious.... When did this happen?

BTW, I just checked, and that video is still up.

So maybe Reddit is wrong. Or maybe Karl deleted shit, and then changed his mind. Or something.

I guess if Karl didn't delete his Dugan collabs, that's a point in his favor (now watch him do it, LOL).

 

[HP Lovecraft’s Catgirl]

As you are being informed by others, Karl didn't design anything. He just consulted on what he thinks would be the ultimate AR. Polymer lowers existed before the KE arms lower but they aren't popular because AR owners generally want what the military has which is an aluminum lower and upper. Now that two gun with pistol and rifle is becoming very mainstream, there is a market for lightweight gamer rifles, albeit still small in my opinion given that the big name manufactures haven't bothered making polymer lowers yet.

One of the issues with an exact polymer copy of the AR lower receiver is they break just below the buffer tube threads, the gun is already so light anyway the tradeoff usually isn’t worth it. There’s versions with aluminum skeletons/ reinforcements, but at a certain point it just makes the production more complicated without any tangible upside.

The CavArms/KE Arms lower fixes those issues with the fixed stock design, because it takes away the biggest failure point. It’s probably the best one out there and the only current production one I’d consider for a centerfire gun (Robar had a pretty cool poly lower out at one point I got to help T&E) and it’s really nice when paired with a rimfire upper. The GWACS lolsuit is bullshit, and it’s a shame that Karl and Russell happen to also be such insufferable fags. At this point that fact itself may end up slowing the adoption of polymer lowers more than the lolsuit, which sucks because a polymer lower that essentially isn’t a disposable piece of trash waiting to break definitely has a place.

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

I hope Ian never goes cow. That's gonna be a genuinely sad day if he does.

I don' think Ian will ever go cow. He's had more years in a brighter guntube limelight than Karl to do so. Karl is just so less levelheaded than your average person regardless of the actual contents of his beliefs and personal life. Every time Karl fucks up with demonstrating what he believes he misses a dozen opportunities to make it at least palatable. It's almost as if he genuinely thinks being needlessly bombastic and performative to the point to where he can be easily mocked is a good thing. It's only a good thing if you're right, or at least surrounded by people who will think you are.

But Karl has chosen the wrong crowd to play his Satanist-Tranny-Cuckold backing track to. He's shot himself in the foot by not taking Ian's example of keeping his content and life separate. There's a reason Forgotten Weapons has 2.5mil subs and InRangeTV has only 430k starting from 2011 and 2015 respectively. I think Karl has demonstrated in the past that he can make content on par with Ian, but I don't think he'll ever be able to drop his reputation for being a complete sideshow.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

DeviantOllam who deserves a thread but it's not this one

Deviant has a thread but it's terrible and dead.

I hope he joins in on this conversation personally. Nobody is gonna ban him here and his meltdowns would be glorious.

I think it was @White Devil and @ellroy over in the General Guntuber Thread who pointed out that he'd probably spend a lot of time in A&N, and I agree with them that seeing that would be glorious.

"Karl is an edgelord that loves to argue for the sake of arguing. "

And on it's own that would be perfectly fine, Hopliteofheil has a following and that statement describes him to a T, the issue with Karl above all else is that he takes that combative and aggressive stance and then reacts poorly to anyone who disagrees or who does it back to him. Karl takes everything far too personally especially for internet discourse. I think Othais is wrong about Karl on this one, I don't think Karl is an edgelord who likes to argue for the sake of arguing, I think that statement implies far too much seperation between Karl's arguments and his personally held beliefs. Karl consistently acts as if his opinion is indisputable fact and then is almost bewildered when people don't see it his way, his anger seems to stem from the sort of frustration you'd feel needing to explain something to a child who should know better.

I imagine Karl's tardery is the biggest drive behind the autistic defamation campaign against Ian McCollum on /k/. You see people claim this or that about Ian, which isn't true about him at all, but are things which actually DO fit Karl's character a lot more.

Ian on his own is honestly rather boring and vanilla, he himself rarely is the target of criticism. If you read the criticism against him I'd say that probably nine out of every ten complaints about the guy is taking out frustrations against his fanbase and/or associates, unles you're @White Devil of course, then your hate boner for Ian is six foot tall and thick enough to eat a cheeseburger off the end of.

It doesn't take an MBA to conclude that Ian is acutely aware of the damage Karl was doing to his own brand, hence the end of his contributions to InRange, which, indeed, very promptly coincided with Karl's flare-up of aspergatism.

Ian was very clearly Karl's tard wrangler, you can see that interaction in their collab Q&A videos, when Karl gets going and Ian calms him down or takes Karl's ill thought out initial point and helps him to articulate it in a better more thoughtful way.

 

[millais]

Did Karl actually work in infosec, or was he more akin to those dangerhair and tranny grifters who pretend to be infosec greyhats for internet clout.