Why SOLGW: the rifles must work, and they must shoot well

28 July 2026 | TacDane ApS

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Sons of Liberty Gun Works builds rifles to a simple recipe: they must work, and they must shoot well. Shootability and reliability, in the company's own words. Everything else is secondary, and the entire production is set up around those two demands.

That is why SOLGW machines its own barrels, bolt carriers and receivers in San Antonio, Texas, instead of assembling bought-in parts. Bolts are Carpenter 158 steel, and every single one is magnetic particle inspected and high-pressure test fired before it goes into a rifle. Not batch samples. Every bolt.

The recipe can be checked. More than 300 American law enforcement agencies across more than 30 states run SOLGW rifles, from the US Marshals Service to city departments in Houston and Sacramento, and in November 2025 U.S. Special Operations Command selected an MK1 variant for its Combat Assault Rifle program.

For the duty user, SOLGW runs a program that says more than any datasheet: the Critical Use Replacement Program. If a rifle is withheld by an investigative authority after line-of-duty use or self-defense, SOLGW provides an equivalent rifle until the original is released. The program operates in the US. The officer is not left without a weapon while a case runs its course.

The civilian buyer gets proof of their own: a lifetime warranty on complete rifles, unlimited, covering wear from use. Shoot the barrel out, and it gets replaced. Units firing tens of thousands of rounds a year agree terms directly with the manufacturer before the acquisition.

TacDane represents Sons of Liberty Gun Works in Denmark. The rifles are on stand U 2324 at DALO Industry Days on 19 and 20 August.