This is Darryl Bolke, co owner of www.americanfightingrevolver.com. Some may remember me from the glory days of gun forums. I left most of them after being frustrated with the “everyone’s opinion is equal” and watching many experienced professionals being chased off because arguing with many posters was not worth the effort. In my case, I simply went to social media and did my own thing. The big social media platforms were simply easier for many of us.
Recently, places like Meta and Patreon have gone full Pravda with deplatforming and restricting content from the firearms community. Bryan Eastridge and I formed American Fighting Revolver to build a revolver dedicated page outside Meta to share content and we did that on Patreon. Big mistake as they nuked us and confiscated our funds. This was because of sharing a Lipsey’s video on the new UC J frames that was a project we worked on. Our crime was “facilitating the distribution of firearms”….yep, that was entirely legal while the same Patreon was allowing Marijuana production pages. It forced us back to our own website and to use a paywall ($5 a month) that takes the trolls and problems out of the equation.
Many have seen us on Modcasts in the past. I spoke with Matt Landfair and offered to return to the P&S forum to moderate Revolver content. I will generally be staying out of everything else, and hopefully those who think revolver use is ridiculous will hopefully just scroll on by and we can use this platform for a sharing of information.
We can have some good discussions here. Currently a lot of folks are wanting to be revolver “experts” because of a recent resurgence in popularity that we have been the driving force on with being the people who started revolver round up, and doing a lot of specific training on these guns in the days when today’s “revolver experts” were throwing stones at us. So, with that I will warn people now that I am not very tolerant of gun shop myths, lore and general posting of theory unproven by any experience. Otherwise, we encourage learning and expanding knowledge and context discussions.
Let’s have some low stress fun in here.
DB aka Bad Santa
Recently, places like Meta and Patreon have gone full Pravda with deplatforming and restricting content from the firearms community. Bryan Eastridge and I formed American Fighting Revolver to build a revolver dedicated page outside Meta to share content and we did that on Patreon. Big mistake as they nuked us and confiscated our funds. This was because of sharing a Lipsey’s video on the new UC J frames that was a project we worked on. Our crime was “facilitating the distribution of firearms”….yep, that was entirely legal while the same Patreon was allowing Marijuana production pages. It forced us back to our own website and to use a paywall ($5 a month) that takes the trolls and problems out of the equation.
Many have seen us on Modcasts in the past. I spoke with Matt Landfair and offered to return to the P&S forum to moderate Revolver content. I will generally be staying out of everything else, and hopefully those who think revolver use is ridiculous will hopefully just scroll on by and we can use this platform for a sharing of information.
We can have some good discussions here. Currently a lot of folks are wanting to be revolver “experts” because of a recent resurgence in popularity that we have been the driving force on with being the people who started revolver round up, and doing a lot of specific training on these guns in the days when today’s “revolver experts” were throwing stones at us. So, with that I will warn people now that I am not very tolerant of gun shop myths, lore and general posting of theory unproven by any experience. Otherwise, we encourage learning and expanding knowledge and context discussions.
Let’s have some low stress fun in here.
DB aka Bad Santa
