AR15.COMReviews of ar15.com

This ain't your father's AR15.com. Following the death of the founder and staff leader Edward there was a bit of a coop where staff members not wanting to change the board's rules got tossed out. Now anonymous moderation allows for the most "sensitive Steve" sensitivities to control the behavior of all. The place is run as a dictatorship rather than the "round table" we once enjoyed. There is no training or guidance given to the staff or moderators once selected. In the past the staff had 3-5 members and now it has close to two dozen meaning that there are now a couple dozen opinions on what is and what isn't a violation. Often those violations are of the "unwritten" secret code-of-conduct. There's definitely a controlling faction that isn't interested in the board as a discussion forum. Changes and additions to the rules are no longer designed and discussed in the Staff forum but are instead delivered to the Staff by TBS without review or comment welcomed. This often leads to amazingly confusing results and chaos. The selection of new moderators and staff members used to have to be discussed in the staff forum. Now they are assigned by TBS without discussion. We end up with moderators who are overly aggressive and treat the membership poorly. I was banned for a month for posting a political meme that had been post there hundreds of times prior. Because they changed the secret rules and didn't tell anyone. Upon returning I provided facts to counter an argument in a discussion and took a ban for "trolling" - disagreeing with someone just to get a rise. No, I really am a conservative and really do support conservative causes. There wasn't even a hint of anger in my providing the fact - it was an opinion-less offering of the facts from an authoritative source rather than the liberal paper the writing I was correcting was quoting. There are now hundreds of former account members there who have not renewed their paid accounts and hundreds more who have been ban recently in the last few months. The dream that was the open discussion forum that Edward created is dead. It was killed on purpose.

I was an active and supporting member of ar15.com for over 20 years. $24 a year. Not expensive as I enjoyed the web forum. However in 2016 and the Trump Campaign the website went from being a conservative website to a MAGA only site. Forum moderators would actively stalk accounts who did not back the hive mind of “Trump or else.” In 2018 the forum was flooded with Q anon supporters. Moderators believed the scam and would actively ban paying members who did not beleive in Q anon or MAGA hard enough. Any one not playing along was warned, locked and eventually banned. In 2020 the website then was used as an active platform for planning and encouraging the January 6, 2020 insurrection at the US Capital. The forum was deplatformed from godaddy hosting service. Even still forum owners and moderators kept the same users up from and cloaked under protection from criticism or descending posts, banning members who did not agree. I was eventually locked out of the forum for criticizing the president. The forum was a huge wealth of knowledge but had now been infiltrated by sovereign citizen types posing as patriots.

This site bans conservatives and is a scam. The mods are corrupt and will ban you if they don't like what you posted even if true. They will make up things to ban. Even paying members. If you must go there do not pay for a membership. When i read a review here about ar15 putting Spyware and tracking bots on computers i did a scan on mine and sure enough i found Spyware ect related to ar15.com on my computer. I believe and this is just an opinion. That ar15.com collects data for ATFE and government. There are to many posts asking for info on guns you bought recently, how much ammo do you have. Post pictures of recent guns bought and current guns owned. Ar15.con is being used by the government as a data mining site against gun owners to gain info on gun owners with site's consent. Do not trust this site.

The moderators are part of what is wrong with the website but not the only problem. If one of them doesn't like your posts, say, you are very conservative or very liberal, then that mod will follow your comments and look for anything to try and make a issue out of. That mod will then force you to prove a negative via accusations that you can't prove one way or the other. Then that mod will give a warning after harassing you. This goes for paying members like myself. I realized that while I thought I was supporting the 2nd amendment and gun enthusiasts, that this was a facade and their moderators do not care and do not follow that themselves. AR15.com is only in it for the money and they laugh at those who pay for their membership. I also noticed that when I paid for a membership, that I began to receive spam emails even though they claim it was not from them. It definitely was as I never had that before. It is a big joke of a website and they are con artists. Another thing is that it is a risky website to even browse, again, your personal info if you sign up for a account will be given away and they will lie saying they don't do that, and there is spyware also in the form of trackers that most people will not see but I noticed it. This is also a form of stealing your information. Once I realized this grift I left for good. My computer after running a spyware scanner removed several hundred and it had to come from there. If you need info on 2A and Ar15s, there are Reddit sub forums for that and are MUCH better AND safer.

Perma-banned for not worshipping law breaking cops and wouldn't beg for reinstatement. If you don't blindly worship cops, even the dirty ones, you won't be allowed here. It's of the cop, by the cop, for the cop. We all miss you Ed, especially with a bunch of mods thinking they have actual power over people and no recourse other than to kiss their asses and submit. Pick up that can citizen indeed.

This is the response I got when I tried to register and join their forum: "We regret to inform you that your new account has been denied. The following reason was noted: Registration Denied. user names with 88 in them are not approved due to neo nazi using it as an identifier. Please contact us If you have any questions, please email our account representative for further assistance This is the marxist link they provided me for their reasoning: The marxist sight ADL dot com says 88 is a "neo nazi hate symbol" I am 33 years old thus the 88 in my username. Not a neo nazi. By that logic the website name itself should be deemed offensive. All Ive heard the past several years is that AR15s are "weapons of war" and are responsible for countless deaths in the US. So the ADL should condemn AR15.com for supporting death and destruction through their website name and supporting content. I would have never thought that a gun forum would be run and overseen by marxist left wing liberals

Where the blue tip of tyranny and special privileges to the boys in blue reign supreme (ie thin blue mafia). Avoid this place, mod’s have demonstrated that they’re full of it and support the destruction and restriction of your rights. BaCk dA bLuE!!!

Doesn't allow registry with yahoo or gmail making it absolutely useless as a consumer site for people that want to save their builds .