No one wanted to steal anything, no need to spread fake news. First thing is, MPT-76 is based on a piston-driven AR-10 platform, so it is absolutely not something special, to begin with. Who cares about a piston AR-10, the patent became public domain years and years ago. The second and more important part is that idiot tried to sell MKE's own rifle to its own subsidiary, which is Zenith Firearms. Zenith Firearms "IS" literally MKE, it is the US branch of MKE. He tried to sell his own company's rifle to his own company. It can't get any more stupid than that. Let's not make it more embarrassing than it was.