 | |
| Industry | Suppressors Firearms Small arms ammunition |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founders | Jonathon Shults, Josh Waldron |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Number of employees | 290 [1] (2017) |
| Website | silencerco.com |
SilencerCo, a leading manufacturer of firearm suppressors, is headquartered in West Valley City, Utah, and was founded in 2008.
The company's product offerings cover a variety of firearm types and calibers, including:
SilencerCo also offers a line of silencer-optimized ammunition and sells threaded pistol barrels for Glock 17L, Glock 17, Glock 21, Glock 19 and Glock 34 handguns. [2]
SilencerCo was founded in 2008 by former President Jonathon Shults and Joshua Waldron. [3] Soon after, SilencerCo launched its first product, a .22 caliber silencer called the Sparrow. [4] SilencerCo specializes in creating products that enhance sound reduction levels, durability, form and function, ease of use and user serviceability.
Since 2015, the company has also provided legal counsel to customers to facilitate the silencer approval process. [5]
In 2011, SilencerCo acquired South Carolina-based SWR (Southeastern Weaponry Research) Manufacturing, [6] a South Carolina-based company founded in 1994, specializing in the design and production of sound suppressors. This acquisition expanded SilencerCo's product line with the addition of the Warlock™ 22, Spectre™ 22, Octane™ 9 and Specwar™ 556, all existing SWR firearm suppressors.
SilencerCo was featured in the Inc. 5000 three years in a row, listed as #202 in 2013 with a three-year growth rate of 2,084%, #604 in 2014 with a three-year growth rate of 788% and #701 in 2015 with a three-year growth rate of 646%. [7] Other honors include being listed as #4 of the Utah 100 [8] and #20 in the Utah Fast 50.
In 2018 after a series of serious missteps that resulted in reduced sales and continuing layoffs, SilencerCo's board announced Josh Waldron and Jonathan Shults would step down from their roles as CEO and president, respectively
As one of the founding members of the American Suppressor Association (ASA), SilencerCo has been a part of education efforts and promoting suppressor-friendly legislation. [1]
In 2015, SilencerCo launched the #FightTheNoise campaign to increase awareness and educate individuals and lawmakers about the benefits of silencer ownership, advocate for the Second Amendment and promote suppressor-friendly legislation. Supporters of the "FightTheNoise" movement include free-ride mountain biker Cam Zink and UFC Heavyweight fighter Travis Browne. [9]
SilencerCo sponsored the National Shooting Sports Foundation. [1]
In 2017, Donald Trump Jr. had made a visit to SilencerCo's manufacturing plant in West Valley City, criticizing the National Firearms Act. [1]
Currently, SilencerCo operates out of a 72,000 square foot facility in West Valley City, Utah. The facility contains an array of CNC machines and houses an 80-yard indoor range and sound laboratory for accelerated testing and product development. The entire manufacturing process is completed in-house, from raw materials to finished product. SilencerCo has over 190 full-time employees, making up in-house R&D, Production, Assembly, Metal Finishing, Sales, Business Development and Marketing teams. [7]
A carbine is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length. Most modern carbines are rifles that are compact versions of a longer rifle or are rifles chambered for less powerful cartridges.
The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 was enacted on June 26, 1934, and currently codified and amended as I.R.C. ch. 53. The law is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes an excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those firearms. The NFA is also referred to as Title II of the federal firearms laws, with the Gun Control Act of 1968 ("GCA") as Title I.
The .40 S&W (10.2×22mm) is a rimless pistol cartridge developed jointly by American firearms manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Winchester in 1990. The .40 S&W was developed as a law enforcement cartridge designed to duplicate performance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) reduced-velocity 10mm Auto cartridge which could be retrofitted into medium-frame semi-automatic handguns. It uses 0.40-inch-diameter (10 mm) bullets ranging in weight from 105 to 200 grains.
The .45 ACP, also known as .45 Auto, .45 Automatic, or 11.43×23mm is a rimless straight-walled handgun cartridge designed by John Moses Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol. After successful military trials, it was adopted as the standard chambering for Colt's M1911 pistol. The round was developed due to a lack of stopping power experienced in the Moro Rebellion in places like Sulu. The issued ammunition, .38 Long Colt, had proved inadequate, motivating the search for a better cartridge. This experience and the Thompson–LaGarde Tests of 1904 led the Army and the Cavalry to decide that a minimum of .45 caliber was required in a new handgun cartridge.
A rim-fire is a type of metallic cartridge used in firearms where the primer is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing. When fired, the gun's firing pin will strike and crush the rim against the edge of the barrel breech, sparking the primer compound within the rim, and in turn ignite the propellant within the case. Invented in 1845 by Louis-Nicolas Flobert, the first rimfire metallic cartridge was the .22 BB Cap cartridge, which consisted of a percussion cap with a bullet attached to the top. While many other different cartridge priming methods have been tried since the early 19th century, such as teat-fire and pinfire, only small caliber rimfire cartridges have survived to the present day with regular use. The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge, introduced in 1887, is by far the most common ammunition found in the world today in terms of units manufactured and sold.
A rim is an external flange that is machined, cast, molded, stamped, or pressed around the bottom of a firearms cartridge. Thus, rimmed cartridges are sometimes called "flanged" cartridges. Almost all cartridges feature an extractor or headspacing rim, in spite of the fact that some cartridges are known as "rimless cartridges". The rim may serve a number of purposes, including providing a lip for the extractor to engage, and sometimes serving to headspace the cartridge.
Kel-Tec CNC Industries Inc., commonly referred to as Kel-Tec, is an American developer and manufacturer of firearms. Founded by George Kellgren in 1991 and based in Cocoa, Florida, the company has manufactured firearms since 1995, starting with semi-automatic pistols and expanding to rifles and then shotguns. Kel-Tec is a privately owned Florida corporation. George Kellgren, Kel-Tec owner and chief engineer, is a Swedish designer who also designed many earlier Husqvarna, Swedish Interdynamics AB, Intratec and Grendel brand firearms. The company has been developing and manufacturing a wide variety of firearms, ranging from semi-automatic handguns, i.e. pistols, to semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one hand. It is distinguished from a long gun which needs to be held by both hands and braced against the shoulder. Handguns have shorter effective ranges compared to long guns, and are much harder to shoot accurately. While most early handguns are single-shot pistols, the two most common types of handguns used in modern times are revolvers and semi-automatic pistols, although other handguns such as derringers and machine pistols also see infrequent usage.
The KRISS Vector is a series of weapons based upon the parent submachine gun design developed by the American company KRISS USA, formerly Transformational Defense Industries (TDI).
.22 caliber, or 5.6 mm, refers to a common firearms bore diameter of 0.22 inch (5.6 mm) in both rimfire and centerfire cartridges.
B&T AG is a Swiss defence supplier specializing in the design and manufacturing of firearms and tactical components such as sound suppressors and rail systems. The company is based in Thun.
Magpul Industries Corporation is an American designer and manufacturer of high-tech polymer and composite firearms accessories like M-LOK. Magpul Industries takes its name from its first product, the MagPul, an accessory for the STANAG magazines used by NATO armed forces, which aids users in pulling magazines from pouches.
The XM17 Modular Handgun System (MHS) competition was a United States Army and United States Air Force competition for a new service pistol. The Modular Handgun System was solicited by a Request for Proposals in September 2015 and is anticipated to be the next U.S. military standard side arm replacing the Beretta M9 and the SIG Sauer M11. The U.S. Marine Corps also participated in the program to have input on source selection, but likely will not order the resulting weapon until their current pistols' life-cycles end in the mid-2020s.
Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC) is an American company that develops and manufactures firearms, firearm suppressors, muzzle devices and related accessories.
A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a muzzle device that suppresses the blast created when a gun is discharged, thereby reducing the acoustic intensity of the muzzle report and jump, by modulating the speed and pressure of the propellant gas released from the muzzle. Like other muzzle devices, a silencer can be a detachable accessory mounted to the muzzle, or an integral part of the barrel.
The .22 TCM or 22TCM is a proprietary bottle-necked rimless cartridge created from a 5.56mm NATO / 223 Rem parent case. It was developed by custom gunsmith Fred Craig and Martin Tuason, President of Rock Island Armory (RIA) Armscor, and is used in the RIA M1911 pistols and the M22 TCM bolt-action rifle. Before the cartridge was commercialized, it was called the 22 Micro-Mag. It is similar in concept to other bottle-necked pistol cartridges such as the 7.62×25mm Tokarev and the FN 5.7×28mm. The 22TCM trades bullet mass for increased velocity and lower recoil.
The Arsenal Firearms "Strike One" is a polymer or Ergal-framed, short recoil operated, striker-fired semi-automatic pistol introduced by the company Arsenal Firearms in 2012. The Strike One is known in Russia as the «Стриж».
9mm P.A., 9×22mm or 9mm P.A.K. is a firearm cartridge for a non-lethal gas pistol noisemaking gun. Caliber 9mm P.A. includes various blank, gas or rubber ammunitions made for different use.
Gemtech is an American manufacturer of silencers (suppressors) for pistols, rifles, submachine guns, and personal defense weapons (PDWs). The company also produces ammunition and various accessories.
Cobra Firearms, also known as Cobra Arms and officially as Cobra Enterprises of Utah, Inc. was an American firearms manufacturer based in Salt Lake City, Utah.