Pete is highly regarded from what I have seen here on ARFcom.. I really resent his badmouthing the "kitchen table" dealers though. Yes, I am one of those bottom-feeding slimy scumbags! And proud to say so. I do mostly transfers and special orders but I am also a RRA dealer just like Pete. Yeah, he probably does a zillion times the volume that I do, but I can provide personal service and good prices too.
Slamming your competition is as old as the hills. I won't lose any sleep over it. You really have to ask yourself though: Is an RRA upper or whatever bought from Pete any better than one bought from Joe's Kitchen Table Gun Sales? Didn't think so.
ATF has succeeded in reducing the number of FFL's by 2/3. There are 200,000 less FFL's in the US today than there were before the Clinton era. And guys like Pete are still whining about guys like me. Wow! Rant over.