That's not Tom exclusively, several members here checked into your history on other sites. It's common practice here to see what other forums are getting from your membership, especially when questions arise as to validity. Having proclaimed yourself a "professional gunsmiter", a misnomer to say the least in that you neither acknowledged nor appreciated the potential danger of recognizing and distinguishing the AR-10 brand. That doesn't speak well for your professional experience. Clearly you have a sense of humor, but you seem to utilize it as best suits you, taking offense at what was clarified to be an inside joke. You further demonstrated hypocrisy when you gave a long-winded speech about how enlightened the pro homosexual movement is but in the same paragraph suggested that the implication of homosexuality was an insult. I'm still waiting for an explanation on that one.
When your potentially dangerous disregard for nomenclature was called out, you postured and avoided the questions that were asked of you and chose instead to restate your credentials in case anybody might have missed the resume you posted for yourself in your introduction. You made it clear that your opinion/experience was more important to you than the possible consequences for anyone acting on information derived from your supposed experience, that makes you a liability.
I have personally contravened the suggestions and opinions of my peers, the resident forum members, and the senior forum members at large in order to let you explain/defend yourself. You have chosen to conduct your fighting in the full view of the forum membership, this isn't a back room decision to get rid of you by "Tom's friends", this is the forum at large letting you know that it doesn't think you belong. Private messages were the correct venue for addressing your issues all along, and there won't be any need for them now, it's just too late. The forum having reached a consensus, this problem is at the end of it's life cycle.
Best of luck to you in the future, happy trails.