Defending 'Tactical Rifles Inc'.... Badly

The verbal wrangling regarding the lawsuit over a negative product review continues. Some of the defenders are not helping their case.  Example.  The accusation was made that 'SnipersHide' forum deleted the TR account and any 'positive' comments under threat of a ban.

Here's 'SnipersHide's response:

1. We did not delete David’s account, he never made one. Deleting an account does not block it, if he truly was prevented from speaking we would have banned the account. That ban would still exist. Deleting removes any blocks the site employs through the software. By David saying he had an account and it was deleted is one of those hard to prove things… however it does not pass the sniff test and I have yet to see David respond on any other forum to negative comments about his rifles.

Rebuttal:

Meanwhile David just emailed me the screenshots of his “invalid username” login on your website.

Hmm. Having an 'invalid username' means an account was deleted?

Here's the screenshot of my attempt to login:

I don't and have never had an account at SH.  Could an account have been deleted?  Sure, but an 'invalid username' screen isn't evidence of that.

But so far TR doesn't seem to have any real evidence that's been presented publicly nor, w/ the fact their lawsuit doesn't even seem to have been researched, doesn't do them any good from a PR standpoint.

Oh, and this:

we should have stood up for Dick Metcalf because his anti-gun employer and the guy who took his editor’s position threw him under the bus and the polly wants a cracker “bloggers” vilified him for something he probably only wrote half of and certainly didn’t select the title for.

'Probably only wrote half of'?  Really?  Evidence?

Howabout the FACT that he started repeating the same BS in every anti-gun rag across the US after his @ss got canned?