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The Biggest Gun Company You’ve Never Heard Of | Gun Talk Nation

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Gun Talk Nation’s Ryan Gresham and Kevin “KJ” Jarnagin sit down to discuss one of the biggest companies in the firearms industry - and likely one you may not have heard of. Avient is a worldwide company that provides polymer, colorant and durability additives for consumer goods of all types - including the firearms industry. If you’re a gun nerd who wonders, “how is that made” or “how did this get improved”, this is an interesting episode for you. This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Safariland, Build Box, Franklin Armory, Ballistic Advantage, FN, Rock River Arms, Range Ready and Sig Sauer. Copyright ©2023 Freefire Media, LLC Gun Talk Nation 10.25.23

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0:00.0

They're like a chemist company or they're chemists yeah, and they deal with chemicals and you're like

0:06.9

Hey, I need this thing to be really strong, but I need to be stable to a thousand degrees. Yeah

0:12.7

I mean we figured out you and I would be like let me neat. Yeah

0:20.8

I'm Ryan Gresham and this

0:25.4

This is gun talk nation.

0:35.4

Hey, welcome into gun talk nation. Today we're going to talk about a company you've never heard of

0:40.7

that's probably one of the biggest companies involved in making guns and cool products for shooters.

0:47.4

But first this gun talk nation is brought to you by Safari Land,

0:51.9

build box TV show, Franklin Armory, ballistic advantage, F in America,

0:58.2

rock river arms, and range ready studios. That's right here. Yeah, wait, I know those guys so cool.

1:05.7

So so welcome in we got Kevin KJ Jarnigan in the house. I'm I'm in something. I mean I'm in

1:14.3

that house. We were in the hallway and I said you want to do a podcast? Sure. You're like,

1:17.7

all right, sure. Yeah, let's do a thing. Let's go. So I kind of teased it, but I thought before we

1:23.2

get into what we're going to talk about, there's a little bit of behind the scenes because guns

1:30.8

and just all the products that go along with for shooters for hunters, there's the behind the scenes

1:37.4

part of how this all happens. I mean just like any business you've got supply chain,

1:42.4

you've got suppliers, even the shot show had the supplier showcase, right? Which is like if you're

1:48.2

at shot show and you go over there, it's like, we have a machine that makes screws. You go, yeah,

1:54.6

what? Wait, what? It makes screws. So you're telling me polymer doesn't grow on trees? Yeah,

2:00.1

we have, you know, companies who specialize in just polymer and they also make polymer for

2:06.6

other industries. Well, this particular company that we're going to talk about too, like

2:11.8

I guarantee you in your life and probably every day you use a product that they produce.

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