AR15.com under new ownership...

[Ed L.]

I have to wonder if Brownells ever looked at AR-15.com before they bought it. Looking at it, from the layout to the posts, I don't see how they see it as a wise choice to spend their money on.

[tb-av]

Oh my, that is all insignificant. You can make it look like anything you want. Look at it like real estate. Is it a good location? Yes/.. then build whatever you want. I would expect the digital building is already complete, they just want the vacant site.

Think of it this way.

You see a pasta shop on the corner. All day people come and go. The camera pans and you are Tony Soprano with a full bowl of pasta. What do you want? You want that real estate. Will it be a pasta shop after you get it? Doesn't matter.

[jpmuscle]

I have to wonder if Brownells ever looked at AR-15.com before they bought it. Looking at it, from the layout to the posts, I don't see how they see it as a wise choice to spend their money on.

It certainly has name recognition. You can’t google anything AR related with links to that site popping up.

I see it as comparable to porn hub buying tumblr ( I think this I still happening)

Hopefully they’ll restore it to glory


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[Dr. Bullseye]

Doesn't matter, Ed Avila Sr. and his mods are still a bunch of f*****g douchebags.

Yep, been gone from that shithole site since 2012. Never looked back.

Finally!!!

[SteyrAUG]

It's simple really.

Membership, Brownells seems to have bought a ready made audience they can advertise to without putting up with regulations and restrictions. They can also minimize their competition if they decide to.

Depending what they paid, it might be one of the better internet acquisitions of the decade. Even if it ends up being a wash where advertisers and members simply offset their operating costs it would still end up being free advertising for them on what is probably the largest firearm forums on the net.

The only thing that really bugs me is all the shit I took back in the day for BOTD content and now every other avatar over there is some chick wearing next to nothing. It's a bit irksome.

[Diamondback]

Membership, Brownells seems to have bought a ready made audience they can advertise to without putting up with regulations and restrictions. They can also minimize their competition if they decide to.

They already have with the Gunstruction AR-builder app--anything not in the Brownells catalog is excluded from the database of parts you can work with, and I suspect that they only place things where the manufacturer pays for the advertising.

[NYH1]

They have a lot of really good pic threads. I've never had any issues there. Don't spend a lot of time there though either.

NYH1.

[HKGuns]

I certainly hope that place isn't representative of gun owners. Brownells obviously didn't do their homework as this adult oriented site would have been a far wiser purchase. I quit that damned place in 2003ish because of all the children who think they know everything.

God awful site full of God awful people, for the most part. Yes, and the moderators suck big hairy balls as well.

I just love this place........So very much better and for the most part full of fairly like minded adults. The others are identified and purged rather quickly thank goodness.

[prepare]

I'd say it has more to with making money than representing any particular class/group of gun owner.

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

Assuming Brownell's doesn't know what they're doing is foolish.