Blackburn,
I've often wondered why that was, as this is Oleg's board as well. I understand why he spun it off, agree with it actually. (My understanding was that he wanted a certain decorum at THR conected exclusively with the gun culture and promoting the fact that we're not all wide eyed radical morons to those who visit the site.)
The APS Roundtable gave us a forum to talk about anything and wasn't particularly trying to promote any kind of image other than polite, adult argument and sharing of stuff.
There really ought to be a sticky at THR on the Legal and Political and Gen'l Gun mentioning APS and a general outline of expected behavior. Oh, well.