B&T Background
Few companies push boundaries like B&T with its unique products and competitive pricing. The privately owned Swiss manufacturer works closely with elite military and law enforcement units across the globe to fabricate one-off products for specific needs.
In addition to its clandestine product lines, the company is known globally for making suppressors, having outfitted several military and police forces with its muzzle devices. Thanks to those partnerships, B&T saves on research and development and can pass that savings on to the customer, meaning some of the best cans on the market are also affordable.
With about 600 suppressor designs in its catalog, B&T decided to create a standard set of suppressors that would be kept in stock as “quick ship” options – sort of the Kydex holsters of the suppressor world. More specialized designs are still available but are made to order, a process that takes a few weeks.
Standardized Suppressor Lines
As far as the standard suppressors, B&T has gone modular with the pistol and SMG line, offering sub-compact, compact, and full-size cans. These cans feature the reduced back-pressure system (RBS) and an open ventilated end cap for less gas in the face, or a closed-end cap that turns off the RBS function for quieter shooting.
The pistol and SMG SD (integrated suppressor) line offers the same three size options, also featuring the reduced back-pressure system.
For rifles, B&T’s new standardized catalog includes two baselines: the Slim RBS and the ROTEX line. The Slim RBS is designed with a special end cap that bleeds off excess gas and helps eliminate flash. The suppressor is quiet and keeps gas out of the face of the shooter. This hybrid suppressor is designed for high-volume fire and over-gassed platforms.
The ROTEX line features some of the lightest suppressors on the market with a unique end cap designed to mitigate and flash and excess gas.
Standard Options
Both the Slim RBS and ROTEX lines will be available in titanium or 1718 Inconel. All Inconel suppressors are full-auto-rated with no barrel length restrictions.
The 5.56 cans are offered in sub-compact, compact, and full size, while the 7.62 versions are offered in compact and full size. Every can is 3D-printed, with no welds and no weak points. These suppressors are extremely light, with the sub-compact K cans coming in at around 4 ounces and almost every other option under 12 ounces.
The other big advancement in the line is that all these suppressors ship with a ROTEX/Surefire hub, making them compatible with all of Surefire’s fast-attach SOCOM mounts, as well as all of B&T’s ROTEX muzzle devices. B&T is also now offering the ROTEX hub as a separate accessory, meaning any rifle with Surefire muzzle devices can mount B&T cans as well as Dead Air and SilencerCo suppressors.
The suppressor lines are priced around $775, about $100 more expensive than the last generation simply because of the addition of the new ROTEX hub.
Glock 19 Hush Puppy
Moving on from simple suppressors, next on the list is the merging of a unique B&T project and one of the company’s top-of-the-line suppressors.
During the Vietnam War, Smith & Wesson produced a series of Model 39 handguns nicknamed the Hush Puppy. The key feature was a slide lock that worked with the suppressor to minimize any noise that the gun made, including the cycling of the slide. The handgun was used for silencing sentries and guard dogs, thus the “Hush Puppy” moniker. The design reappeared briefly with a Navy Special Warfare handgun design but was never officially adopted.
Related: The Navy's Mk 22 'Hush Puppy' Pistol
B&T, known for its VP9 (adaptation of the Welrod), has revived the concept of the Hush Puppy with a custom Glock 19.
The Glock 19 Gen 5 features a deep optic cut on the slide for an Aimpoint Acro, keeping the optic low so it naturally co-witnesses the standard Glock sights. The slide features a toggle lock switch to prevent the slide from moving during fire, offering the ability to make the quietest shot possible. The factory-threaded barrel is adorned with a wiped suppressor with two internal wipes designed to trap as much gas and sound as possible. Overall, it's slightly longer than a Glock 34, making it concealable for any clandestine operations.
This project shows how B&T can take old concepts and merge them with the best available technology to meet the needs of any task. All told, this is one of the coolest firearms released at Shot Show 2024, and its limited run of fewer than 250 is sure to go quickly.
APC9K-SD2
The APC9K-SD2 is another exciting product that’s now shipping. While it is well known that B&T won a U.S. Army sub-compact weapon contract with the APC9K, the company also has a contract to provide APC9Ks for Air Force aircrews. In both trials, B&T submitted the APC9K-SD, an integrally suppressed version of the APC9.
Like the MP5SD, the APC9K-SD2 features a ported barrel with an over-barrel sleeve suppressor. The impressive thing about B&T’s design is that it is the shortest integrally suppressed sub-compact gun on the market, bleeding off enough gas that it makes even 115-grain ball rounds subsonic. The APC9K-SD2 accomplishes the same goal as the MP5SD at almost half the length of the H&K barrel and suppressor design, at only 14.9 inches overall.
As if the design were not impressive enough already, the integral suppressor is also modular. While its shortest configuration would easily fit inside a backpack, the suppressor features extensions that can further dampen the noise. Also, as previously discussed in the suppressor section, B&T offers two different end cap options.
Unique Custom Suppressors
As stated before, B&T has around 600 suppressors in its catalog, and what kind of SHOT Show would it be if we didn’t show off two of the coolest ones?
First is a Super Quick Detach .50-caliber suppressor mounted on a Barrett M107. This massive can is surprisingly light (less than 2.5 pounds) and threads to the factory muzzle device with about half of a rotation, locking securely in place.
French MK12 Suppressor
The next really cool item is linked to the MK12 rifle. Many folks are familiar with the MK12, with the Mod 0 the most common version. But several MK12s made it to production, including a French model. B&T now offers to the public the over-the-sleeve MK12 suppressor that fits the modified OPS Inc. muzzle device.
Most people are familiar with the MK12 Mod 0, Mod 1, and Mod H, but the French mod has yet to be cloned up to this point. This makes this suppressor unique, as well as incredibly affordable at under $900. This is just one of the many popular contract products B&T has been producing for other countries for years finally making its way to the American market.
Summary
Overall, B&T had even more to see, but these are the highlights from this year at SHOT Show. Be sure to stay tuned for more B&T content from Guns.com.
