To be fair to them even though they are being smug, I don't think anyone really knows until the ATF releases its guidance on Monday and you can be sure that will have a growing errata appendix over the next two months.
And that's also all assuming that the ATF doesn't just do what they normally do by leaving the language intentionally vague so that they can just arrest you on a whim whenever they feel like it.
You can see the author on Gunboards and Facebook asking for stuff quite often. The fact he's looking for obscure out of print English books instead of just consulting the readily available Japanese books is a massive red flag. Him asking others to translate Japanese documents for him is the funniest IMO. He's not a terrible guy or anything, just very clearly an amateur way out of his depth. I have no idea why Ian thought taking him on was a good idea.
Someone tell him that the entire country is on X and you can talk to them now thanks to Grok. There's no need to ask Americans for info on Japanese history when you can easily ask Japanese people yourself.
And none of these guntuber faggots is going to take this as a signal to have backup channels on other platforms because muh monetization! and muh audience! is only on YouTube. Except for when YouTube yeets your fucking videos and no one can watch them anyway.
A point in guntube's favor is that 15 years ago the AR market was still confused as to what is good and what wasn't, assembling your own(including the upper) was considered the only way to go and Aero was known to be the reliable big brand at the time. Circa-2011 a lower was a lower*, a barrel was a barrel, buy the cheapest LPK because the GI trigger works fine and build another upper if the first isn't good because parts are plentiful. Today everyone's making parts that are allegedly not shit while charging premium prices and the only reviews being done by guntube are pointless burndowns, one magazine run through it or super niche setups with a narration that never seems to get to the point.
On top of that the general public found out through Lucas and commenters that "assembled uppers" from Aero had fine print that said they weren't intended to be used out of the box, you had to pull the barrel to grease the nut and properly torque it down. It wasn't as damning as shipping out lemons if they shipped at all, but when you buy an assembled upper you want it to be usable straight away.
Yeah and it felt like it stayed there until 2020 then the snobs starting call Aero poor and referred to BCM as mid because they didn't offer things that KAC or LMT offered which are really unneeded luxury features.
I felt like it was before that though, I really think the Lucas Aero AR-10 video marked the moment when people went after Aero because the younger generation of shooters are watching Lucas's content and then it turns into word of mouth just bashing Aero's product line. In our own Mega Rad Gun Thread, if feels like younger shooters there are just hopping on the Geissele band wagon and saying anything else will just get you killed.
Informative for sure. The biggest takeaway IMO is whether a court can really provide relief to a group and its members like GOA, and courts in the past have said both yes and no.
Put another tally mark on the board.
