Red Jacket Firearms grew from a boutique manufacturer to a national brand nearly overnight due to reality television, and may return to near obscurity for the same reasons. (Image via The Red Jacket web site). Like most of America, I’d never heard of Red Jacket Firearms before Discovery Channel’s reality television series, Son of Guns.

Sons of Guns revolved around the “family-owned” boutique gun business as they manufactured custom firearms for law enforcement, security companies, and collectors. I watched the series occasionally, which primarily revolved around Will Hayden, who was presented as the owner of the company, his daughter Stephanie, who was …read more