I find myself totally amazed.
If I was a manager of a company, working like a mad man trying to make a company run smoothly, which is not being run as a typical business, my time is extremely limited, and being efficient really counts. Making the time, let alone finding the desire, to speak out on this forum and expose myself to major criticism as well as the potential business liability, not to mention pissing off the boss, wouldn't be prudent or wise. Do the numbers. There are 75,000 SASS members, 7396 total CAS Forum members, 75 people actively on all CAS forums at the time I checked, and only 218 USFA members who have probably already secured a USFA gun. Is the potential risk of saying something that may put my job at jeopardy an efficient way of spending my time for potentially reaching the 218 people that have more than likely already made a USFA purchase out of the possible 75,000 people with a better chance than John Q Public to do so but that probably haven't. Let's see, that's less than 3/10ths of 1% of that potential market. Oh for sure. Putting aside everything else on my plate for this very high priority would be my very daily thought.
Not to mention as members, we finally have a door open to us that may shed some light on some of our questions as USFA forum members, but we start off by interrogating and placing the door opener on guard, who could just close the door.
I am a big USFA firearms fan, the gun not the company, and I have spoke to Gary G. several times over the past several years when ordering guns. I welcome him to the forum and thank him for any info he may give to us to solidify our passion for these fine guns, as it surely appears they are going into the history books. The more clarity we can obtain now will clear up any misinformation for the future, which ultimately will help us answer the question the original poster asked.