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Posted: 11/4/2007 6:49:20 PM EDT
Members of the staff here at LWRC had a sneaking suspicion that member "Moose" on this forum was actually Paul Leitner-Wise. This has been confirmed, more on this later in this post.
It appears he has been operating on almost all of the other firearms forums under the name bgoddin. His alias this time is Brian Goddin, a supposed General Dynamic's executive/consultant. Of course, GD has no such person. I almost wished they did. Other than his public posts, he has been up to alot of funny business by PM/IM on the various boards, and those have been streaming in to us here. If he has duped you into a conversation, we would appreciate you forward copies of your communication with him to me ([email protected]). This guy needs to go to jail for good. I am so disappointed in our legal system thus far. It seems they do not care much about white collar criminals like PLW. Funny enough, most comments I get is "how can this guy be that stupid to do this AGAIN from his home IP address." The answer is he thinks everybody else is too stupid to figure it out. The IP address is 76.21.179.50 When you search the location for the IP, the little yellow pin interestingly almost sticks out of the roof of his house. I passed on the IP to AR15.com and the IP is a match for PLW's shill accounts as the USSOCOM officer hipfired gun, and the other shill accounts he set up. It appears as though this zebra cannot change his stripes and continues to con, manipulate, decieve people, and get himself in trouble. That is his choice....he will surely wear a uniform with stripes on it one day if he continues to engage in these types of activities. I thought you guys deserved to know. He has been communicating with members on other boards like the famed "loomis farms" filling his angry head with bullshit information. He has manipulated others in industry. The reading has been enjoyable. Please send us your famous PLW/Moose IM's. |
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Who is this guy? Not familiar with him. Is he a troll like gunkid was?
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Can somebody fill me in on his whole situation? I never fully understood what was going on with him.
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That account was locked days ago. Anyway Paul Leitner Wise used to be at Leitner Wise Rifles. Someone associated with lwrc had a bunch of troll accounts here that were used to bash competitors and post false praise about lwrc products. "hipfiredgun" was one of them, he claimed to be, if I remember correctly, a special forces soldier. He even used the name of a real special forces soldier.He posted made up stories about how great lwrc rifles did in secret squirrel .mil testing. The guys from lwrc said it was Paul Leitner Wise and kicked him out of the company after we locked the accounts. |
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You'd think he'd have changed his IP. It's simple enough to do, even with a static IP.
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It all makes sense now. I figured that Moose guy had a bone to pick with LWRC. I'm a new owner of an excellent LWRC SRT upper and I love it.
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Wasn't there lots of other crazyiness other than false pretense Arfcomming that led to his getting booted from LWRC? |
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So one of the founders of LWRC's been horsing around? I'm envisioning some deviant Howard Hughes in my mind.
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I have no idea if there were other reasons behind his removal. It was portrayed to me as being in response to the trolling, but obviously only Darren and those guys know what really happened behind closed doors. I would assume that the trolling was enough. If the rumors I heard about the effect the hipfiredgun fiasco had on lwrc sales I'm surprised Darren and the rest didn't eject plw from the building in many small chunks. edit which is too bad because I've certainly heard good things about some of the products from some knowledgeable people that I trust. |
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I guess what I didn't understand is the company structure of LWRC. If Paul was the owner, how could the others force him to leave? Were any investors involved?
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Hey guys. PLW was not the owner. It is a long and pretty freaky story. I will save it for my book "Gun Nutz." Anybody in a corporation can be fired unless they hold over 51% of the voting shares. Even then there are circimstances they can be fired for cause. Once he was fired we didn't want him to have any affilliation with the company whatsoever so one of the investors bought all of his shares.
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It's "land warfare rifle company" now I think. |
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What has he done in a criminal sense? Just curious. |
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They've alluded to it. I always thought that would be a great thing to do. |
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Just seems like there would be a bunch of confusion, people are going to see the upper is identical to the lwrc, then they are stuck explaining it anyways. Honestly I have no idea what I would do, it's a shitty situation for the guys still there either way. |
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So this guy is now using the same methods as before, but he's bashing the company instead of praising it? |
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Yeah, all his posts were extremely negative towards LWRC. If I remember correctly, he was sorta forcibly removed from the company.
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I, for one, am shocked and in a state of disbelief.
...and laughing my ass off at the very thought of PLW apologists in the prior (exposed) incident. |
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I read in one of the gun rags that they had existing contracts which made it difficult to get out from under the the Leitner Wise name, so they modified it to LWRC. |
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USMC IAR |
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Yes there was. After being informed by the administration of AR15.com, of what was going on, we began to dig. The more we dug on our end the worst the smell got. The company did the right thing, with removal of said person. As far as criminal action, I'm not sure I can disclose the matter. But the facts are available through public records, I'm assuming Fairfax County is a good starting point. |
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Hmmm....so Stafford county wouldn't be a good starting point?
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What I posted was copy and paste from the LWRC forums. I really don't know but, like everything else, I'm sure there's more than we know about.
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I'm sorry to hear of your continued PLW drama. For what it's worth, I want one of your rifles very badly.
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Agreed... |
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Thank you for your support!!!! |
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I am now placing my .308 plans on hold. Do you have any further info that you can share? 96Ag |
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Is that groove for a bolt handle?
Daddy like! Any plans for something in 5.56 flavor? |
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Holy smokies! Better save me some greenbacks! We need more info! |
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WOW!!! DADDY LIKE!!!! DADDY LIKE NOW! |
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Niiiiiice! Dindn't know about the name change. Cool beans! |
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I just bought an AR10 and now I see this?? (oh well, I guess I'll just have to get both...) |
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I would have tried to move as far away from his name as possible and formed an entirely new company.
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I think they take SR-25/DPMS mags. Good to see LWRC moving forward with their products. |
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Yeah, that one. |
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That receiver is beautiful.
Glad you got rid of the troll now please start selling those receivers. |
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Yup. I get the occasional dealer mailings from them since they have my licenses on file. eta...I see Im a day late and a dollar short on the name. |
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+1 |
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+1 that looks great |
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It is a UBR. That is preety much what I want but with a stainless 16" barrel stuffed in there and a suppressor. I think they will be selling the 20" with a PRS stock as standard.
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I can see momma is gonna be pissed at me again. |
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Nice looking receiver ! |
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