The previous owner hyped 7.62 Garands from Italy like he'd found some forgotten container. They were ordinary Danish (?) or Italian (?) recievers with 7.62 barrels installed, and the QC was what you'd expect of a log cabin built with a dull chainsaw run by two drunks after dark. Absolutely criminal. The upshot was Marstar was run off CGN; and the previous owner had to sell the business. The new operators are significantly better retailers. The community disciplined itself.
What Wes at Epps did was on par but worse. He signed a commercial contract with Public Safety on behalf of an industry association. He very likely hoodwinked the other prominent members. I do not believe many of the other businesses whose names are getting splashed around were aware of his dealmaking or would have agreed had they known the extent that he was in bed with the feds.