I'm in complete agreement with 300ydClean that there are alot of good folks over there. (Note: this is as far as I personally will ever go again in defense of that site)
It's not a 'battle of the boards'. There is no real monetary gain here---unless AR15.com is trying to buy Tapco or The Falfiles...
We are what we are. Gun owners. More importently gun owners that own semi-automatic clones of rifles we can't afford to own in their original form. Possibly even more importently, owners of firearms potentially deemed unaccaptable for ownership period.(!!!!!)
I've gotten the bulk of info needed for compliance and the sort from not only this site but theirs and several others. Gunsnet is a disfunctional family, nothing wrong with that, this is America and dysfunction appears to be the rule of the day.
Seems there might be more to this than what appears, only time will tell.