DeWys Engineering holds a Federal Firearms License for Manufacturing (FFL 07) as well as a Special Occupational Taxpayer for Manufacturing (SOT 02) and specializes in Firearm Design and Suppressor Engineering for customers in the defence industry. We offer a wide range of inhouse services to assist our customers including Mechanical Engineering, Reverse Engineering, Metrology / Inspection, Cerakote, and 3D printing specifically for firearm parts.
We have assisted customers in the defense and firearms industry’s over the years on projects including:
- Fully reverse engineering out-of-production rifles and delivering ready to machine 3D CAD data for new production parts
- Designing after market stocks, foregrips, hand stops, and other related accessories
- 3D Laser scanning existing parts to allow for changes be to made to them in 3D CAD
- Designing custom pistol slides for Glocks (and clones) and grip modules for platforms like the SIG P365, SIG P320, Ruger RXM / RXM-FCI, and Springfield Echelon
- We have also printed many prototypes and some production run of grip modules for customers as well, you can learn more about that here
- Reverse engineering and then adjusting existing detachable magazines to create compatibility for different firearm platforms and calibers
- Designing many different types of firearm and optics accessories like RMR mount adapters, Night vision bridges, pistol grip panels, etc
- Designing 3D printable AR-15 lower receivers with an approved serialization method from the ATF
- Clean sheet suppressor designs (both machined and 3D metal printed)
- Due to DE’s extensive background in 3D Metal Printing (DMLS) we specializes in the design and development of 3D Printed metal suppressors. We can also assist you in souring them with a production parter if you do not have the ability to do that yourself.
Federal Firearms License for Manufacturing (FFL 07)
There are multiple types of Federal Firearms Licenses each enabling the person or company holding them to transact in different areas of the firearms business. The chart you see to the right (click on it to view in full size) shows all the different types of FFL’s available and gives a summery of each.
At DeWys Engineering we hold and FFL 07 which is a manufacturing FFL. This allows us to have customers ship their firearms directly to us for use on Firearm Design R&D projects, for laser scanning to enable reverse engineering, and for testing the fit up of prototypes.
Special Occupational Taxpayer for Manufacturing (SOT 02)
Just like with the FFL system, there are various different classes of SOT as well, each allows the person or company that holds it the ability to transact in different parts of the National Firearms Act (NFA) business.
At DeWys Engineering we hold a SOT 02 which allows us to work with NFA firearms like:
- Machine guns
- Full or select fire
- Short-barreled shotguns and rifles
- 18” for shotguns, 16” for rifles
- Suppressors
- Any other weapon
- Or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an
