ATN takes home the 2025 Gold Award in the Night Vision / Thermal Category and a Favorite New Product Award from The Shooting Sports Retailer, then turns the page to its biggest launch in company history: the ATN Generation 6 thermal platform — including the ThOR 6 Elite, ThOR 6 Mini, BlazeHunter thermal monocular series, and Binox 6 multispectral binoculars.
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. — ATN Corp., a global leader in thermal optics, night vision, and digital imaging technology for hunters, shooters, and law enforcement, has been honored with two major industry awards from The Shooting Sports Retailer, presented during the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits. ATN took home the 2025 Gold Award in the Night Vision / Thermal Category and a 2025 Favorite New Product Award — recognition voted on by the dealers and distributors who put thermal optics in the hands of hunters every day.
While the awards mark another milestone in ATN's long-standing leadership in thermal imaging and night vision technology, the company is using the moment to spotlight what it considers the most important launch in its history: the all-new ATN Generation 6 thermal lineup.
Headlined by the ATN ThOR 6 Elite and ATN ThOR 6 Mini, and supported by the BlazeHunter thermal monocular series and Binox 6 multispectral binoculars, Generation 6 is engineered to define the next era of the best thermal scope, best thermal rifle scope, and best thermal hunting scope categories.
Two Wins at the NRA Show — Validation From the Retailers Who Know Best
The Shooting Sports Retailer Awards are among the most respected honors in the firearms and outdoor optics industry because they are decided by the retail trade itself. Dealers vote on the products that drive in-store demand, retailer confidence, and customer satisfaction across rifles, ammunition, optics, accessories, and night vision and thermal imaging.
ATN earned recognition in two of the most competitive categories at the NRA Show:
2025 Gold Award — Night Vision / Thermal Category, recognizing ATN as a category leader across thermal optics and night vision technology.
2025 Favorite New Product Award — recognition of an ATN thermal product that captured retailer and consumer enthusiasm in 2025.
Coming directly from dealers, these awards confirm what hunters searching for the best thermal scope, the best thermal scope for hunting, and the best thermal scope for coyote hunting have said for years: ATN delivers professional-grade thermal imaging at a price point that redefines the category. ATN is treating the recognition as a starting line — not a finish line — for what is next.
"These awards from The Shooting Sports Retailer mean a tremendous amount to our team because they come from the retailers themselves — the people who put our thermal optics into the hands of hunters every day. We are deeply grateful to every dealer and distributor who voted for ATN. But the truth is, our team is already focused on what is coming next. Generation 6 — and specifically the ThOR 6 Elite and ThOR 6 Mini — is the most ambitious thermal platform we have ever built, and 2026 is going to be an even bigger year for ATN and for our retail partners." — James Munn, CEO, ATN Corp.