We spoke with one of the most respected suppressor manufacturers in the country about what they are doing to meet perhaps the most robust demand for all things quiet this year. 

The elimination of the tax stamp cost – dropping from $200 to $0 – is making suppressors more accessible, further normalizing their use with rifles, pistols, and shotguns like never before. After all, customers and ranges benefit from quieter shooting experiences, which in turn drive further demand for what are essentially safety devices that help preserve hearing and provide better situational awareness.

Anticipating increased demand due to the removal of the $200 tax stamp, SilencerCo has optimized machining and processes to boost production efficiency. That's good because over 200,000 e-form submissions were logged just in the first couple weeks of January.

"So, different than a lot of other manufacturers in the space today, we make 95 percent of our product in-house," Ryan Killian, National Sales Manager with SilencerCo, told Guns.com. "So, we own the machines, we own the space, and we've known this is coming for the last six or eight months, so we have been making our machining processes more efficient. We've been working on internal processes just to get more suppressors out to be able to meet the increase in demand. So I'm really happy with the progress we've made there."

With that, despite some limited runs of new cans like the innovative S98, SiCo is leaning into its popular products to make sure folks can get those devices they may have had their eyes on in the past. 

"So 2026 is really a year where we're concentrating on our existing catalog and making sure that suppressor buyers are able to find our products in the stores," said Killian. "We know that it's going to be hard to meet the demand. We're only in January, and it's already been really hard to meet the demand. So we're working on a lot of machining efficiencies and things like that. We just want to be able to get the customer what they need, get the shooter what they need. Shoot quiet."

Video by Ben Philippi.