About

If there is a single ideology held by Atlas Arms contributors, it is individualism, as one might tell from our motto above and the Atlas Shrugged namesakes. We assert that individuals are the true units of humanity, that every person owns himself, and that every individual bears responsibility for building the world in which he wishes to be. From this follows our political motivation and strategy. Other principles generally favored in this camp are liberty, voluntaryism, market economics, non-aggression, cooperation, integrity, and craftsmanship.

It is one's own decision whether and with what to arm one's self, and no collective, majority mob, or ballot box may constitute a legitimate injunction against that choice. Firearm possession endows an equalizing power and dignity to attack one's enemies, or to defend life and livelihood, and that's romantically beautiful.

It is not enough to passively beg permission to keep our guns and dwindling firearms freedom when an election or mass shooting comes around. Instead we must actively fight to take back what has been stolen. Here at Atlas Arms, we don't ask for a world of firearms freedom, or even discuss it in a public forum or courtroom; we simply build it ourselves. For more than a century, the state military apparatus has monopolized small arms tech while some scraps eventually fall into the hands of the people. The strategy of Atlas Arms is to reverse this dynamic, ensuring weapons technology purpose-built for individual use and ease of access beyond state control. 

The past decade and half have seen successful efforts to protect generations-old weapons tech from the next wave of gun control. We are enthusiastic supporters of this work and it serves as an inspiration, but Atlas Arms takes a more ambitious approach. We are creating brand new technology so that the future of firearms will be inherently prohibition-proof from the ground up.