I’m disheartened to hear the news today of Patrick Ma separating from Triple Aught Design, the company he founded in 1997. The press release states the reason for the break as “unresolved disputes with the two remaining managers… Brett Eisenberg and David Cahill,” who along with Patrick, formed the entity known as Triple Aught Design, LLC in August of 2010.

Read more at ITS Tactical.

Well, lets see what the future brings for TAD Gear then. I personally feel like they were more “hot” a year or so ago and now all they do is produce knifes and almost never keep any of the other softer stuff in stock like clothing and backpacks… To be honest, I’m very happy with all my Triple Aught Design things that I’ve bought. Everything from t-shirts to my Fastpack Litespeed so I hope that they’ll keep producing that stuff.