Part and Accessory Design

Enhancing Small Arm Performance through Better Parts and Accessories

It is no secret that key to improving the performance of a firearm is the use of the best parts assemblies and accessories. It is rare to find an armed American who has not changed out some parts or installed some accessories on her weapons. Indeed, many models of firearm are sold with the explicit expectation that parts and accessories will be added, both to improve performance, and just as much to customize the arm to its individual user.

There is an almost-unlimited demand, as well as creative potential, for parts or accessories that meet a consumer need, and a hundred flowers bloom in the field of custom assemblies for privately-owned and professionally-fielded firearms. From sears and strikers that smooth out and lighten trigger pull, myriad of styles of iron sights to make pistol accuracy more intuitive, and customizable grips and stocks that can be made to fit any person of any size to magazines that more reliably feed ammunition and weigh less, barrels that maintain their accuracy over greater and greater round counts and regardless of whether they are hot or cold, and action springs that are so durable and long-lasting that they never need to be replaced, there is hardly a practical ceiling to how the market will reward the creativity of an ingenious designer of firearms parts and accessories.

Some parts and accessories can even push the performance of firearms beyond what designers or purchasers could ever expect, giving responsibly-armed American citizens the capability, for example, to approach the rate of fire of fully-automatic weapons in a firearm that still is treated by the law as a simple, unassuming semi-automatic sporting arm. Just one example of a product that heightens the defensive effectiveness of civilian firearms, all while receiving regulatory approval and staying on the right side of the law is the brilliant Binary Fire System from Franklin Armory, which is a fire control assembly (trigger, hammer, sear, safety, etc.) that allows a semi-automatic rifle or handgun to fire once with the pull, and once more with the release, of the trigger.

Large or small, minor or major, parts and accessories for firearms are all regulated domestically, just as they are in the import/export field, and so complying with these various laws and regulations is crucial to taking advantage of this fertile and burgeoning market. Luckily for you, the Managing Attorney knows these regulatory frameworks like the back of his hand, and can offer suggestions, even at the drawing board stage, to achieve the performance improvement you are seeking with your part design, all while staying nice and legal.