Industry

Like many AR rifle part makers, BPM entered the market during turbulent economic times in order to keep its machines running. However, the company quickly became an industry titan and built a business that can weather market downturns.

Law enforcement professionals are a solid market for your store. Get to know your local force and stock up on good gear that is affordable and meets department guidelines.

Florida gun store mogul Kahled Akkawi is using aggressive business practices to force retailers out of competing shows. While some are learning to live with it, others worry the new policies are strangling their business and could be a model for other states.

Some say firearms companies that go public or buy up other brands wind up sacrificing quality and focus. But the numbers show when it’s done right, getting bigger can force companies to deliver better products to their customers and help brands survive tough times.

Smith & Wesson issues apology to Brownells for letter threatening legal action over custom M&P handgun.

A bankruptcy judge has approved a deal for Colt to emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of the year.

Acitelli, who’s been on the job for about a year, expanded on his company’s products, how he plans to repair Taurus’s reputation and what new guns might be coming down the pike.

The Brazil-based gunmaker has agreed to pay up to $39 million to shooters after a class action lawsuit alleged nine of its pistol models are unsafe.

High-end polymer parts manufacturer PolyOne announced Dec. 2 it has formed a business division dedicated specifically to outdoor products and the shooting sports market.

PolyCase Ammunition is a young injection molding company in Savannah, Georgia, that creates a product line with copper-polymer bullets.

In the company's latest financial statement to investors, Remington Outdoor Company disclosed declining sales of firearms and ammunition in the last quarter, with many consumers purchasing less expensive guns and ammunition.

After nearly being left for dead, the makers of the world’s first precision-guided firearm are shaking off recent missteps and charting a course for growing the brand.

FNH is Fabrique National Herstal, Herstal being the Belgian city that is now home to an international operation manufacturing defense, law enforcement and commercial firearms and marketing them on every continent.

The industry seems to be in a glut situation in one area, a shortage situation in another and probably mixed somewhere between others.

Coming in at almost half the weight, an inch shorter and about a third of the cost of the Salvo 12, the new Utas Octave is a carbon fiber wrapped 12-gauge suppressor that can knock down a scattergun's report to as little as 135 decibels.

Dead Air Silencers offers a new suppressor for pistols up to .45 caliber that's modular with a reduced length.

With AR sales as competitive as ever, major companies are looking for ways to get those rifles across the counter, and what better way than to throw ammunition at the problem?