Can't seem to find any of your post that were deleted - but, if you posted in a thread that gets deleted your post goes too. The only time we totally delete a thread like that is if the OP posted links to auctions or is shilling for an auction. Can you be more specific about what section it was in? I'll check it out for you, it wasn't me that did it though.
I see. It looks like the whole thing was nuked because decent, shooter grade guns were mixed in with the bubba'd guns. I leave it up to the moderators and supermods to decide how much they accept as far as posting auction links, so someone felt it was a bit much or some rifles posted were not "turds" so to speak.