Irregular Design Defies Gravity with New Cans

If you’re even remotely familiar with Slade Cutrer, you know whatever he’s working on is sure to be exciting. While catching up with the Flux folks at SHOT 2026, we bumped into Slade along with Sean Bernstein from Irregular Design Group, and they showed us some incredible new products.

Irregular Defense

Slade has built a great company called Irregular Defense to highlight some apparel and a new camo pattern that he developed based on his experience with SEAL teams. The camo pattern does a great job of breaking up your outline, which helps you blend into your surroundings.

This new pattern is developed with Berry-compliant materials, and the company is moving toward production of full combat uniform sets and nylon gear. This should be a popular design.

Irregular Design Group

Many folks are more familiar with Slade’s Irregular Design Group, which makes a lot of control parts like mounts and grips. Sean is one of the head designers for the Irregular Group and has a background with USMC Force Recon and a second career with CAD design. Together, Slade and Sean are working on some pretty incredible developments with their accessories.

The Irregular Design Group is working with Noveske to develop a contract firearm, with IDG manufacturing a custom handguard for the rifle. This design features a 3D-printed heat shield at the end of the handguard, allowing a suppressor to sit under it without the risk of burning your hand on the hot metal.

Irregular Design Group Suppressors

Slade and Sean’s main goal is to design suppressors, and Irregular Design Group released its first Hesychia SIXK suppressor and muzzle device back in 2025. Hesychia is Greek for “stillness” or “silence.”

Slade and Sean draw from their experience in the Special Operations community to forge products that are effective, safe, and innovative. (Photo: Irregular Design Group)

Irregular Design uses the most advanced manufacturing and design methods to build its suppressors. These 3D-printed Inconel cans are designed for heavy abuse, with intricate baffle designs constructed to reduce backpressure as much as they reduce the sound signature.

The topography texturing makes the can look as good as it sounds. (Photo: Irregular Design Group)

Drawing from their experience in the SEAL teams and Force Recon, the Irregular Design folks understand the importance of a suppressor and the safety that offers the shooter. They aim to create suppressors that help prevent hearing loss, TBI, and keep any toxins from being inhaled by the shooter.

New Models

Slade and Sean designed and printed seven new suppressors for testing about two weeks before SHOT Show. The most notable of these designs are the Hesychia 556UK (Ultra Kurz), which is a super-short 5.56 suppressor, and the Hesychia 300BLK-H (HUB), a HUB-compatible .30-caliber can.

The new Hesychia 300BLK-H is a HUB-compatible .30-caliber can. (Photo: Seth Rodgers/Guns.com)

The Hesychia 556UK (Ultra Kurz) is a super-short 5.56 suppressor. (Photo: Seth Rodgers/Guns.com)

Both suppressors are developed with the Irregular Design Micro and Macro Flow Enhancer muzzle devices. Much research, design, and development went into matching the muzzle device with the suppressor. More than just a mounting system, these muzzle devices enhance the performance of the suppressor itself.

The muzzle device is designed like a thrust-vectoring jet engine. Hollow tines with inlet ports on the inside help direct gas into the annular spaces of the suppressor. This design helps direct gas through the spherical spaces that thrust toward the muzzle, venting forward and depressurizing the core.

The muzzle device is 3D-printed from the same material as the suppressor and mount, so the parts share the exact same thermal coefficient. There's a Macro version... (Photo: Seth Rodgers/Guns.com)

...and a Micro version, with this one having seen some use already. (Photo: Seth Rodgers/Guns.com)

In addition to optimizing the flow and directing the gas, the muzzle devices use Irregular’s innovative locking system. The muzzle devices are 3D-printed from the same material as the suppressor and mount, allowing for an identical thermal coefficient between the muzzle device and the suppressor. The two parts will heat at the same rate, preventing metal expansion at different heat points. This design helps to prevent a thermal lock on the can as it heats and cools.

Locking System

The innovative Irregular Design locking system uses reverse threads to mount the suppressor to the muzzle device, preventing the user from unthreading the muzzle device in the case of carbon lock. Additionally, the tines on the suppressor that match up to the lugs on the muzzle device are designed so that if you short-stroke the threads and don’t get a good seat, the muzzle device is still locked on to the suppressor.

The teeth on the muzzle device work in tandem with the lugs on the mount, allowing a secure fit even if the user short-strokes the threads. (Image: IDG)

While it only takes about three revolutions to seal the can on the threads, the guys made sure that even if there were user error, the suppressor and the shooter would still be safe.

With the elimination of the $200 NFA tax stamp, the market has exploded with new suppressor manufacturers. It can be hard to determine which companies are innovating suppressor designs that advance performance, safety, and technology. Coming from someone who has shot A LOT of suppressors, I can assure you that the Irregular Design Group is onto something amazing with these suppressor designs.

Summary

SHOT Show hype is often centered on big companies and minor changes on new versions of popular firearms, but don’t let that fool you. Some smaller, lesser-known companies have a ton of experience and innovation to bring to the table, and a lot of the advancements and changes in the industry just might be driven by them. Fortune favors the bold, and the Irregular Design Group is as bold as it gets.