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Ep 362: Pharma to Firearms: How Brandon Maddox Navigated the ATF and Won!

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this hard-hitting episode, Aaron sits down with Brandon Maddox, the CEO of Silencer Central, to talk about his incredible journey from pharmaceuticals to firearms. Brandon opens up about the challenges of breaking into the silencer industry, the tightrope walk of navigating ATF regulations, and how he mastered the art of negotiation. He also dives deep into the changing culture around suppressors and the evolving landscape of gun ownership in America. Whether...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast everybody. It's me, it's Aaron, it's solo. It's Mr. Brandon Maddox, the CEO of Silencer Central.

0:13.2

We're going to get into his amazing story here in a second.

0:15.2

You already heard all of his backstory in his boathie on the pre-roll, but we're going to start talking

0:19.4

about all of that stuff right now.

0:21.1

Just a quick reminder, go over to one's ready dot com you can find

0:23.0

us wherever it is you listen to podcast make sure to check out our

0:26.0

YouTube channel with that out of the way Mr Maddox thanks so much for showing up

0:29.5

how are you sir? Good thanks so much for having me. I appreciate the opportunity.

0:33.0

Outstanding.

0:34.0

Now, it's amazing.

0:35.0

You know, the second that I was introduced, you know, you know, a shout out to Baker,

0:38.0

the second he was like, hey, you know, this guy is amazing, a staunch Second Amendment advocate, a staunch, you advocate staunch you know resistor of the ATF as it were and

0:46.8

the fact that you know these regs inside and out and have made that your career after

0:50.8

another career which is really hard to get into and then obviously we connected.

0:54.6

So for everybody that's out there that doesn't quite know who you are and what your story is,

0:58.1

just give us a little bit about yourself.

1:00.1

Okay, yeah, good question.

1:01.3

So I was born and raised in the southeast, my dad was in the army, so I was born at Fort Rocker.

1:08.6

And then we moved to Georgia, and I did pretty much high school and college in North Carolina.

1:15.0

So I did undergrad in Pharmacy School at Chapel Hill and then I went into the pharmaceutical industry

1:20.0

and started in Florida and did really well and they brought me in the corporate office which was in North Carolina and they paid for me to do my MBA because they said everyone saw me as a sales guy. I need to be a business guy. So, right? Pay for me to get my MBA at Duke and then I ended up

1:36.3

married a gal from South Dakota so that's how I ended up here in South Dakota but really spent my

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