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[Larry.Y]

Yes... Due to my superior internet sleuthing abilities, I do know who huntingmn99 is... And yes, it is an employee of Range Systems, someone you both seem to know. From what I gather your company works out of their offices. Obviously this person was trying to drum up some attention for you guys. It is what it is. You can handle it however you like.

I'll send you and Larry the info via e-mail if you would like.

Again, welcome to both of you, hopefully you two decide to stick around and contribute to our local community.


- Paul

Thank you for your diligent detective work. I would very much like that information so that I can be sure that any "business drumming" on our behalf is sanctioned by me. You can reach me at Larry@sealedmindset.com (not that I needed to tell you that ).

From my limited understanding of "astroturfing", since we (the employees that I control in my company) did not knowingly post a comment in order to subversively answer it our our own behalf, I hope we can be absolved of any wrong doing.

I took this very seriously because we have dedicated over 4 years of our lives (full time) and a significant amount of money to develop a company to provide services to those that care about safety, firearms, and training, therefore I care about our reputation.

Paul once again I thank you for taking the time to research and moderate this.

[OldmanFCSA]

Thank you Larry and Anne for your service to this community and our country!

Please stick around and learn the people and the personalities - it gets interesting sometimes ..............
THEY can be difficult sometimes, but WE all sink or swim on the same Forum.

OldmanFCSA

[JoeH]

Larry and Anne,

Welcome! I hope that you stick around and participate in the forum.

[RobD]

Seriously, if you're here to promote, just do it, there's no shame in it, plenty of users do it.

There is shame in veiling comments to appear as unsolicited recommendations. Or pretending that an employee is not an employee.

If you did that, you know you did. And all your talk about honor is bull ****.

If you didn't, you know you didn't. And your honor isn't affected b y what people on the interwebz think.

[JJ]

Sorry, this all seems a bit shady. I hope you did not know huntingman99, but I find it hard to believe.

[FYI]

My direct role is in the corporate web-based educational side of our company. I'm sorry that everyone here is fixated on my misuse of "they" instead of "we," but since I'm not an firearms trainer, I always refer to the instructors as "they."

You were pretty involved in my spy night experience....

[Larry.Y]

You were pretty involved in my spy night experience....

How was your Spy Night experience?

Did you learn anything? Did you find it interesting?

So far we have had nothing but great reviews of this event.

[Snowgun]

You were pretty involved in my spy night experience....

How was your Spy Night experience?

Did you learn anything? Did you find it interesting?

So far we have had nothing but great reviews of this event.

Hmmm, I wonder if I could get my wife to come to one of these....

[abuser842]

You were pretty involved in my spy night experience....

How was your Spy Night experience?

Did you learn anything? Did you find it interesting?

So far we have had nothing but great reviews of this event.

Going back to the point of his post... Does she have an active role in the training classes?

[Larry.Y]

Going back to the point of his post... Does she have an active role in the training classes?

As I stated earlier, she is not a firearms instructor. She is not qualified as a NRA instructor, or one of our PTC instructors. She does not run any of our firearms training.

She is involved in the management and running of many of our events of which are unlike normal shooting classes.

As you experienced, she played the role of a Russian Spy Operative judging the participants performance in the Spy Night Experience.

She asks questions about cover identities and makes sure that the Firearms Instructors stay on task and on time.

We have full time instructors that run all of the firearms training in all of our events and those are the "they" she was referring to.

[tt3]

Larry, I applaud your tenacity. Thank you for continuing a mature dialog and keeping your cool. Many before you have not been able to do so and that says a lot in my mind.

(Not that my opinion matters one whit, but there it is.)

[OldmanFCSA]

***** Let this topic become constructive to our Forum. ******

I've been chastised by PM's - thus the changes to this posting.

[JJ]

abuser842 - drop it! You're becoming a pain here! Let this topic become constructive to our Forum.

One post is "becoming a pain"?

[OldmanFCSA]

abuser842 - drop it! You're becoming a pain here! Let this topic become constructive to our Forum.

One post is "becoming a pain"?

It's been explained.
The Moderation Team here has resolved the issue.
Larry and Anne have explained their roles.
THEY are providing a great service to our community, and
WE need to support the new business as it supports our recreation needs.

Let's move on and help Larry and Anne create a Great new Opportunity for Shooters.

(I have not met them yet,or seen their facility, but hope to next Tuesday.)

[tman]

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What is that I hear? Could it be the voice of reason?