B&T was established in May 1991 by Mr. Karl Brügger and Mr. Heinrich Thomet to produce suppressors for the domestic Swiss market. After sometime Mr. Thomet sold his shares of the company to Mr. Brügger who remains the sole owner of B&T today.
B&T is fully licensed by the Swiss Government to import, export, trade and manufacture all categories of war material including small arms, ammunition, and related accessories. The actual location is Thun, Switzerland just 20 minutes from the capital of Bern.
The core competence of B&T is the integration of firearms expertise and state of the art engineering into practical solutions for special military and police users. Expertise is a big word and at B&T we believe it means:
Knowledge of the systems the operator is using.
Knowledge of what are the technical benefits and limitations of the current system.
Knowledge of what is best value for money for the customer.
Knowledge of what to propose and from where to procure it.
Knowledge of how to integrate many different current or perhaps newly designed components into a new tactical system that will meet current mission and requirements.
It does not matter what your current weapon system is, B&T has almost 500 different types of firearms in its reference collection.
State of the art engineering competences enable B&T to create and produce the optimal possible tactical solutions for weapon systems.
When B&T started in 1991, suppressors were the first product the company produced. Users of suppressors very often needed special optical sights on their weapons, optical sight mounts for tactical weapons soon became a second line.
To complement this line of products, Tactical Rail Handguards TRH became a third product line B&T produced thus increasing the modularity of modern firearms to make these weapons able to accept laser sight, night vision devices, illumination systems, brass catchers and more.
In summer 2004 B&T started to produce its own line of complete weapons, these include:
MP9 9mm submachine gun
APR308/338 sniper rifle
GL06 40mm grenade launcher
B&T is a global player with its own products and a major supplier for Swiss law enforcement for duty gear and weaponry.
