Btroj,
You should go back to the other thread and revise your last statement there saying you haven't voted on this question of a sub-forum as I can see that you have. Yea or Nay, everyone has a right to voice their opinion regarding the idea of providing assistance to fellow shooters with this firearm and its system of operating with cast lead but saying one thing in one thread and doing the other in another thread leads to inconsistencies in the message.
Last time I did a quick check of retailers of these firearms, there a nearly a hundred different manufactorers/assemblers of this style of firearm. trying to compare it to establishing a Glock subforum which is only one specific firearm manufacturer is disengenious and diverting the basis of discussion on a semi-automatic rifle that many are now using. Its more equivalent to the forum having a subforum on Leverguns which it currently has while calling these rifles AR15 and other Modern Sporting Rifles as military firearms is also wrong as they have a different trigger mechanisms and bolt carriers which are designed to prevent them from functioning in the same manner as a military firearm.
But did you know that Winchester Lever Actions were issued as military firearms in several countries and were even used in combat alongside pump shotguns..so...with that logic you should close down the Leverguns forum and roll all the 1894 and 1895 Levergun threads into military firearms since they ALL obviously were developed for military contracts at one time or another. And perhaps we need to review the Blackpowder and Paperpatch Forums as well to pull all the threads referencing the Kentucky Rifle or the Springfield or Enfield rifles and put them in the Military forum as well since our Revolutionary Soldiers punched holes in the Brits and the Hessions with that Modern Assault rifle of the Time (heavens, those backwoods heathens are using rifled barrels and hiding behind trees and picking off our officers! So unsporting of them Wot!) And used those 45-70 Springfields and 40 caliber Enfields to kill our own brothers with them during the Civil War...or shoot up my Indian relatives out on the plains with the US Calvary in the 1870s...
There you go, sarcasm pushed right back at your arguments against the development of a subforum within Factory Rifles. All of my ARs don't have Property of the US Govt. stamped in their receivers so there is no reason to discount they were built in a civilian factory.