There are probably worse places to talk about the explosive growth of the suppressor market than on a private 2,300-plus-acre ranch in the mountains of southeastern Idaho.
That’s where SilencerCo recently hosted a small group of firearms media at Day Mountain Ranch Resort & Event Center outside Preston, Idaho. The sprawling property offers luxury cabins and, more importantly for this particular group, multiple shooting ranges, including PRS, rimfire, pistol and extended long-range facilities reaching out to two miles.
It was an ideal setting to spend time shooting suppressed and talking with SilencerCo executives about where the company—and the suppressor market—is headed.
And right now, both appear to be headed up…which is a wild understatement.
During the factory tour portion of the event, SilencerCo President Scott Clinger put the company’s position in the market into rather remarkable perspective.
Of all suppressors registered under the National Firearms Act since 1934, SilencerCo estimates approximately 20% are SilencerCo products.
Even more impressive, roughly 8% of all registered suppressors are from the company’s Omega family.
That’s not 8% of SilencerCo sales. That’s 8% of the entire registered suppressor population.
The Omega 300 has played an outsized role in putting SilencerCo in that position.
According to Mike Aland, Chief Marketing Officer for the Syndicate Group which owns SilencerCo, the Omega 300 began as something of a pet project that its designer wasn’t even convinced the market wanted. Instead, the combination of materials, performance across multiple calibers and overall versatility helped establish a design and performance benchmark for the company.
It also helped pave the way for later products such as the Omega 36M and 46M, expanding the concept of versatile suppressors capable of covering a broad range of calibers.
Fast forward to 2026 and the market SilencerCo helped build is suddenly moving at a very different speed.
Suppressor sales this year have already topped 1 million units, as elimination of the $200 tax stamp, dramatically shorter approval times and growing consumer familiarity have combined to send demand soaring. And that’s before factoring in the latest NFA ruling out of Texas.
For SilencerCo, that demand has been significant enough that the company made the unusual decision not to introduce new products at SHOT Show this year, choosing instead to concentrate manufacturing capacity on supplying the products dealers and distributors were already asking for.
That decision says quite a bit about the current state of the market, as well as the company’s commitment to its distributor and dealer network.
Not to mention the increasingly common sight of factory-threaded barrels on firearms that just a few years ago weren’t necessarily viewed as suppressor hosts.
Aland points to lever-action rifles as a prime example. Manufacturers now offering threaded barrels from the factory are responding to customers who increasingly expect firearms to be suppressor-ready.
In other words, suppressors have moved a long way toward becoming the mainstream shooting accessory SilencerCo envisioned when the company was founded in 2008.
But Aland doesn’t think the industry is anywhere close to finished growing.
With 32% of U.S. adults saying they personally own a firearm (according to Pew Research Center) and 400 to 500 million firearms already in consumer hands, the existing suppressor population still represents only a fraction of the potential market.
“We’re not even scratching the surface,” Aland said. “The horizon’s bright.”
Earlier this week, I sat down with Aland at Day Mountain Ranch to talk about SilencerCo’s history, the products that helped build the company, lessons learned from previous suppressor booms and busts, manufacturing and distribution, the remarkable 2026 market—and what comes next.
You can read the first part of that interview in today’s QA Outdoors.
– Paul Erhardt, Managing Editor, the Outdoor Wire Digital Network
