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with how anticipated the T7 was you'd think he would have done his due diligence and ensured the thing functioned before selling them. fuckin quality has went to shit in most of the industry, especially the portion that caters to the tactical crowd.
Should have been an open BETA at most.

I suspect Tommy doesn't do much work in house. He's got a ton of different parts, from different vendors, and no technical data package on what the tolerances should be. Tommy used to work with Todd Bailey who is fucking notorious in the HK world. Apparently not working with him on the T7...

I think Tommy's sweet spot is taking demilled UMPs and G36s and bringing them back to life. His fully USA built T36s are hit or miss.

The ballwashing on HKPro is the only reason I care. Cracking receivers, cam pins/recoil rods beating themselves to death, but "Stop being mean to Tommy!"
It sucks I like some HK firearms, because the HK community has to be one of the fuddy/fucking terrible communities ever.
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It sucks I like some HK firearms, because the HK community has to be one of the fuddy/fucking terrible communities ever.
I think it just comes down to people wanting stuff they can't have. Certain HK guns end up achieving this legendary status as a result.

I was present for a conversation between a vet who carried a 416 for a time, and a dude who desperately wished he could have one. Guy asked high speed low drag vet bro if the MR556 was worth buying. Vet cool guy said "fuck no, spend $1.5k on a nice DI AR." That was not the answer the 416 dreamer expected to hear, that's for sure.

These days you've got stuff like the Brownells BRN-4 and Caracal 816 that anyone can buy, but some dudes still dream of the HK 416...
 
I think it just comes down to people wanting stuff they can't have. Certain HK guns end up achieving this legendary status as a result.

I was present for a conversation between a vet who carried a 416 for a time, and a dude who desperately wished he could have one. Guy asked high speed low drag vet bro if the MR556 was worth buying. Vet cool guy said "fuck no, spend $1.5k on a nice DI AR." That was not the answer the 416 dreamer expected to hear, that's for sure.

These days you've got stuff like the Brownells BRN-4 and Caracal 816 that anyone can buy, but some dudes still dream of the HK 416...
I wonder how much of that is MR556 popularity is about the military provenance, and how much it is H&K fanboyism.
 
I wonder how much of that is MR556 popularity is about the military provenance, and how much it is H&K fanboyism.
Isn't military provenance a major contributing factor to HK fanboyism in the first place? Admittedly, I do think the MP5 is cool due to it being featured in so many '80s and '90s action flicks.
 
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Isn't military provenance a major contributing factor to HK fanboyism in the first place? Admittedly, I do think the MP5 is cool due to it being featured in so many '80s and '90s action flicks.
Indeed it is. I guess my point is, does someone want the rifle because it's H&K, or because it's used by (among many others) the US Marines. I don't think people are lining up to by the FN USA military collector line because they think something made by FN USA is cool, they want it because it's the M16/M4 that the US military uses. H&K does have that cult following though, some people must have every product they make because it's H&K and thus cool.

As a practical civilian gun, the 416 doesn't really make all that much sense. Frankly, a piston-AR doesn't really make sense for a civilian user from a practical perspective either. DI does the job very well, and is a better shooter. Pistons do offer some robustness that militaries like, that's why they are popular in those circles.
 
I wonder how much of that is MR556 popularity is about the military provenance, and how much it is H&K fanboyism.
For the younger generations who were too young in the 1980ies and the succeeding generations who weren't even born yet, H&K obtained mystical status for becoming mostly unobtanium to them.
 
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New Brassfacts video on the near-death of DesertTech:
tldw: They got caught unprepared by a ransomware attack, refused to or didn't have the money to pay for it, and laid off most of their staff.
Haven't these type of attacks typically been done by Russian hackers? They havevbeen kind of hard up for cash lately.
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I wouldn't be surprised if whoever was responsible has already sold/traded stolen technical data to the Chinese as well.
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Haven't these type of attacks typically been done by Russian hackers?
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I wouldn't be surprised if whoever was responsible has also sold/traded technical data to the Chinese as well.
Russian, Chinese, Indian, etc. Lots of countries have both small groups and individuals perpetrating ransomware attacks. Typically not state sponsored, but sometimes more than willing to sell data to foreign governments. They sell data to the highest bidder, and sometimes that happens to be governments (although they usually have no idea if this is indeed the case, since seller and buyer are obviously trying to be completely unknown to each other).

A weapons manufacturer like Desert Tech being targeted isn't a sign of a state sponsored hacker being responsible. Ransomware attacks happen to all sorts of businesses and organizations.
 
Do not click on shit attached to random emails, even businesses have the express right to "lose" emails especially if they aren't in the proper format.
Check the filetype to make sure it's not FFLInfopdf.bat, and only accept a .pdf from a confirmed email. Even better, use a separate computer without access to others on the same network that does not have important documents and information to receive emails.
 
Do not click on shit attached to random emails, even businesses have the express right to "lose" emails especially if they aren't in the proper format.
Check the filetype to make sure it's not FFLInfopdf.bat, and only accept a .pdf from a confirmed email. Even better, use a separate computer without access to others on the same network that does not have important documents and information to receive emails.
Some PDF and Word files could contain malicious links, macros, code, etc. So don't open shit you aren't 120% sure is legit
 
New Brassfacts video on the near-death of DesertTech:
tldw: They got caught unprepared by a ransomware attack, refused to or didn't have the money to pay for it, and laid off most of their staff.
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DesertTech seems annoyed with him.

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Cinnabun uses the free wifi at his local KFC to project more doom and gloom since KE Arms is in dire straights due to their GWACS lawsuit.

I'm skeptical. I don't mind Brassfacts and do watch his content, but sometimes I feel he just doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to some topics.
 
DesertTech seems annoyed with him.
I don't mind Brassfacts and do watch his content, but sometimes I feel he just doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to some topics.
I'm starting to get that way, too. That's a hell of a way to misrepresent DT's situation.

Karl put out a video on one of their products recently so I can't even be surprised that Cinnabun is chiming in.
 
I'm skeptical. I don't mind Brassfacts and do watch his content, but sometimes I feel he just doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to some topics.
He has good material on guns generally but his prepping videos are pretty lackluster. He wants to live under the delusion that urban or apartment prepping is viable, but he shouldn't promote those delusions to his audience.
 
He has good material on guns generally but his prepping videos are pretty lackluster. He wants to live under the delusion that urban or apartment prepping is viable, but he shouldn't promote those delusions to his audience.
Took the words right out of my mouth.

Brassfacts has admitted that owning his own house and land would do way more for SHTF prepping than anything else he has done but the guy keeps pissing his money away on NVGs, rifles, optics, and lights. Like if he didn't buy half of that shit he would be way further on a down payment in Utah than he is now in his shitty little apartment tucked away in a SLC suburb.

If he just came back to reality and did some more research those videos would be more tolerable
 
Took the words right out of my mouth.

Brassfacts has admitted that owning his own house and land would do way more for SHTF prepping than anything else he has done but the guy keeps pissing his money away on NVGs, rifles, optics, and lights. Like if he didn't buy half of that shit he would be way further on a down payment in Utah than he is now in his shitty little apartment tucked away in a SLC suburb.

If he just came back to reality and did some more research those videos would be more tolerable
It's more fun to have an apartment full of toys than a house with no toys in it. That's how most guys see it, I suppose. I don't know what the housing market is like in Utah and what sort of income BF has.

When I watch BF's videos, it seems to me that it's him and his friends camping and larping in the desolate Utah wastelands. They're having a lot of good fun. That's not all that relevant to "prepping" though, unless BF's plan is to run to the rocky hills and camp out with his cute dog when the aliens invade or whatever. But in previous videos, he's discussed bugging in -- in his apartment. Does he know his neighbors very well? What are their skills? Are they trustworthy and reliable? Can him and his neighbors fortify the building?

Societal collapse scenarios are stupid anyway. America will simply continue turning into Brazil. The worst thing that can happen to BF out in Utah would be the state government turning solidly blue.
 
Do not click on shit attached to random emails, even businesses have the express right to "lose" emails especially if they aren't in the proper format.
Check the filetype to make sure it's not FFLInfopdf.bat, and only accept a .pdf from a confirmed email. Even better, use a separate computer without access to others on the same network that does not have important documents and information to receive emails.
It's much worse than that. I haven't kept up with malware since around 2018 but back when I was involved with it (Of course this was all on the Minecraft Internet for any feds reading.) we used to be able to embed a link to an image that would execute code on your computer/phone and infect you with whatever malware we wanted. There was also a file extension exploit for windows xp/7/8 that would read you back the wrong file extension. We could give it any extension and the os would treat it as an .exe

Tl;Dr don't even open emails you don't recognize if you don't want malware.
 
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