This entry was posted That is not at all intended to be a slight against him, but like others have mentioned, this is now two companies where this has happened. We’ve shipped three of twelve silencers we developed.”. In addition to a new personal home, the Q factory is just a mile from his former office at SIG. Kevin Brittingham started Advanced Armament Corporation when he was 19 years old. Looking for great things out of that shop. I agree with Vhyrus, It sounds like he is a sh!tty team player. He added that SIG SAUER will “continue to bring the highest quality firearms to the American market” and remain committed to the silencer category. . Right before SHOT Show, we told you Kevin Brittingham planned to form a new company after recently leaving SIG SAUER. They don’t care about you or the customer or the product, they only care about the returns. As one of his closest friends has often said, “There’s a little Gemtech inside every AAC can”. I didn’t fall in love with guns — I love the innovation,” Brittingham told me during a very candid interview. Bill Gates’ main achievements were buying someone else’s operating system and licensing it (MS-DOS), and stealing ideas for a user interface from Xerox PARC (to create Windows). Brittingham sees his own role at Q as recruiting, steering the boat, funding and to a certain degree, marketing. Kevin Brittingham's Reputation Profile. I’m not sure if this is all true, maybe somebody who knows better can chime in. I wish Kevin well. Gates bought DR-DOS from Digital Research and modified it because DR didn’t know what to do with it. After one hit and two very obvious fails, if I was asked to invest, I’d be more than a bit concerned the hit was mainly due to being at the right place at the right, silencers blew up, time; and that the man’s most enduring talent, is simply thinking a bit too highly of himself. The rest is history. I can definitely see how he felt they were wasting his time. And we need more 40MM / 37MM offerings. If you want cookie cutter, you've come to the wrong place. That whole statement is confusing. Big green destroys the best things about everything it touches these days. I can’t believe this myth still keeps kicking around, like it matters. Kevin Brittingham Speaks on the Honey Badger. lol, posted at same time as above, looks like we all agree. Along with suppressors and a bolt-action rifle of their own design, Q has also developed and marketed an improved Honey Badger. His business inspirations aren’t gun companies but rather business giants like Amazon and Red Bull who have changed the rules. . ... Ruger, Sig, or Springfield might have a legal team and checkbook to make a larger and louder defense but a niche company like Q will not have that resource. Now, they are competitors when they could have been partners or investors. 94k Followers, 497 Following, 2,730 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Q (@the_official_q) I’m surprised it took him this long to leave and go back to doing his own thing again. I am sure that the man is a genius in his field, but that doesn’t always translate to a good team player. This is no small task, and is the reason why it is now a ridiculously successful cartridge by all standards. Or he could’ve just not sold out AAC in the first place and avoided this whole fiasco the past 7 years…. Low bore axis is such a minutiae thing, compared to everything else in handgun design. Jobs was a POS. Holy crap, he’s yanking the carpet from under Sig. Why did AAC sell in the first place? If Kevin was such a bad business person, AAC would not have been the success that it was. Kevin Brittingham Account Executive at Mount Royal Printing Company, Inc Baltimore, Maryland Area 500+ connections With all of the company’s employees sitting around a table (it’s a small company, and a big table) Q’s HMIC, Kevin Brittingham, told them he wanted a bolt gun. His last few months have been particularly contentious to the point where there’s some question as to whether Kevin quit or was fired. While that didn’t come to fruition, they now had a gun they could sell in California, which is a huge market for any company with a compliant product. Brittingham developed The Fix for a few different reasons, including the possibility of Hillary Clinton presidential election. 1 Profile Search Follow. I spoke with Kevin on the phone. Under Brittingham's direction, AAC grew to be one of the largest suppressor manufacturers in the U.S., including a number of small military contracts. Some people, like Steve Jobs, cannot work effectively in a hierarchical corporate culture. As part of Q’s 12 and 36 month plans, Brittingham has built in incremental growth and team building as crucial to success. The DMLS technology is even faster with prototyping = production. Will he locate his new venture in Georgia? I’ve been fortunate in the past to work for someone brutally bright. Good luck finding different hand guards or barrels for an MPX, for example. Now, wouldn’t that be visionary……. View the profiles of professionals named "Kevin Brittingham" on LinkedIn. I can totally understanding bailing from Team Green. The whole story is laid bare in court documents you can find online. They got popular back in the late 2000’s, back when it was basically them, Thunderbeast Arms, Liberty, and a few other small shops making cans for the civilian market. Visionaries can be an invaluable asset to an organization, but they should very rarely be left to run the place. Having been in the NFA game for quite a long time, Kevin Brittingham formed Q with many notches of experience on his belt that has helped a relatively newer company soar to our top selling list. there is no torture or punishment too cruel for whomever brought “Clippy” into existence. We reserve the right to refuse advertising to anyone Kevin Brittingham founded Advanced Armament Corporation in 1994 to manufacture sound suppressors, having previously been a distributor for GEMTECH, another suppressor manufacturer. Steve Jobs (one of my personal heros/idols) was universally hated by all but a select few people, because he was a massive prick. By. He was primarily responsible for taking this wildcat cartridge and getting it SAAMI approved. Let’s just see how a new company comes in to immediately snag a military contract I guess? 3 Profile Searches Follow. It will be interesting to watch. Along with suppressors and a bolt-action rifle of their own design, Q has also developed and marketed an improved Honey Badger. Now it’s happening, and quickly. All Rights Reserved. Surprised he is sharing shipping/sales numbers. Awww .Little Kevin didn’t get his way so he took his ball and went home….again. Kevin speak… I used other peoples money and ideas to start and run AAC. I was scheming to pick up a an SRD556Ti along with an MCX 10.5 to either pin/weld or SBR. He sold one of the guys ideas to some corp for like 2 grand or something, and then gave him like 200 and said “here’s your half.” I’m badly mangling this but that was the gist of it. “We shipped a couple million dollars [worth of silencers],” Brittingham said. Q Concepts was already taken… Or maybe they just like my name. The goal is Silencers, Accessories and Firearms by SHOT Show 2017. Copyright © Soldier Systems Daily 2008-2020. He was with them a year, pretty much brough AAC 2.0 designs with him, they made like three models out of twelve. While it’s a small company and people are going to be wearing a lot of hats, ambitions are high. If they treat them right and invest in the future SIG could make some awesome stuff.”. It makes me wonder why Americans are so jealous of success, but it does explain the popularity of Bernie Sanders. “We had close to ten million in back orders.” According to Brittingham, production lagged behind demand, as the company pursued other priorities. As for Sig, maybe Kevin didn’t want to put out what are essentially a few products, but in different color schemes, and lean heavily on the reputation (and pricing) of the products that he produced in the past?…. I wonder if they have lost focus chasing silencers, ammunition, optics, airguns (wtf? Love the URL… “kevin-brittingham-leaves-sig-sauer-forms-his-own-company-with-blackjack-and-hookers”. Named simply Q, they’ll start out … Whenever a new suppressor manufacturer joins the ranks of our impressive list, we at Silencer Shop are always busting at the seams. Now if only they could figure out how to make a striker fired handgun with a low bore axis. Why use your money when you can use someone else’s? Can’t wait to see the stuff he and his guys start putting out. I think we are going to see good things from this new company. He sees it as “knowing what we’re doing and giving people the right opportunities.” Although he doesn’t want to grow too fast, he knows exactly where he wants to be. Stealing from Gemtech? Either that or the Q from Star Trek! Remington just didn’t do their homework. Kevin Brittingham started a little company called Advanced Armament Corp a while back. In the more than two decades that have passed, he has helped to influence the silencer, ammunition and firearms industries in dramatic fashion. Beth has been found in 7 cities including Woodstock, Germantown, Derwood, Denton, Delmar, and 2 others. They may give it lip service because their management “how-to” books in the self-help section of B&N tell them to, but they don’t get it. As an entrepreneur myself I get what Kevin is saying. He just recycled from Maxim. Named simply Q, they’ll start out with just 10 employees, but it’s quite the lineup. Brittingham loves the area and has put down roots. Major problem in the US is in the last 40yrs we have be churning out thousands of “Business majors” that go with plan Chicom. Those that follow the suppressor industry closely know that Brittingham recently left SIG Sauer after a very short time there and he is best recognized as the founder of Advanced Armament Company (AAC). It is nice to be wealthy and be able to do that. Well.. maybe the K baffle.. Right before SHOT Show, we told you Kevin Brittingham planned to form a new company after recently leaving SIG SAUER. Kevin Brittingham. Kevin Brittingham, the executive behind a wide range of innovative products produced by SIG SAUER, has left the building. All out there are very good to outstanding, we just need more people to have them. To generate sales, the concept is initially to concentrate on government customers and then work toward commercial sales of those products. Doing something with it is much harder. Why anyone caves to them, especially small private firms is beyond me. were scrounging for work. Glad I didn’t. I look forward to seeing what he churns out. If Brittingham has the backing to pull that off, he will succeed. That’s the entire issue. Do you know of a quicker way to make $20 million? As far as XRX PARC goes, you got your history wrong. A statement is written by the company. Kevin Brittingham is on Facebook. Thats generally how being a lot smarter than just about everyone else in the room is usually received. He’s completely unfiltered, brilliant and cognizant. We reached out to SIG SAUER for a statement about Brittingham leaving the company. I used other peoples money again at SIG. Everyone I worked with on a day-to-day basis was amazing. My oldest is entering kindergarten this year and I cant help but think of the teacher evaluation form we had to fill out. Another interesting thing is the ages of the company’s members. Q made a name for itself with products like their Trash Panda and Thunder Chicken , to just name a few. I think the potential is unlimited. I hope Q as in Q Branch. If I could describe Q in one word it would be ambitious, but it’s not as if he’s starting from scratch. However, in the Winter of 2011, AAC’s founder and President Kevin Brittingham left the company. “The average worker at SIG is smarter than anyone else in the industry. Kevin if you read this , I’m a registered nurse but have worked in mental health since 2002, I would make a great customer relations asset to your new venture. Kevin was always a megalomaniac, and he sold out to Remington because he didn’t have the cashflow to fullfill orders, blaming the delays on “fulfilling military orders first.” The truth was that he was close to filing bankruptcy, but to save face he put the word out that AAC might be for sale for the right price. Kevin Brittingham doesn’t mess around, announcing a 1 March launch of his new brand. I vaguely remember Linus Torvalds talking about Microsoft either suing him or claiming that Linux is using Microsoft’s ever secretive code. For a actual PRODUCT can either call the Chicoms/PLA and send $ OR you have to be willing to get your hands dirty, able to handle details, and figure out how to with designers, engineers, toolmakers, production (IE play well with others). He said he plans to conduct live fire demos of three preproduction firearms at SHOT, although he wouldn’t get into specifics. He left the companies on his own, wasn’t fired. was the inventor. Kevin Brittingham, founder of the Advanced Armament Corp. and inventor of 300 AAC Blackout, has been hired on to take the lead of SIG's new silencer works. But that’s a large part of what makes him successful in that field. And this is not Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. The Freedom Group put Brittingham in golden handcuffs, but Brittingham chafed under Remington’s corporate culture, to say the least. I do not know the specifics, but this does not surprise me. It has to be light and it has to be cool, he said. Criminal or Civil Court records found on Kevin's Family, Friends, Neighbors, or Classmates View Details. I certainly wish him the best and excited to see what he turns out. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Investors participating solely for the returns worked out pretty well for OSS. Now it’s happening, and quickly. One of his goals is to give young people a shot and he’ll be looking for promising talent. “I offered the last two years to work for a dollar a year if I had control of my [projects],” Kevin said. Kevin Brittingham founded AAC, and his success was due in part to the culture that the company cultivated. . He said, “You don’t have to be somewhere for 20 years to show everyone you are deserving.”. But they seemed to have plenty of resources to fight BATFE for the Sig Muzzle Break and the Sig Brace. “They’re great for urban encroachment,” said the company’s founder, Kevin Brittingham. and Comments (RSS). If they were worried about tarnishing the Sig Sauer brand, they could have given the subsidiary another name until it proved itself. Lawsuits, Liens or Bankruptcies found on Kevin's Background Report Criminal or Civil Court records found on Kevin's Family, Friends, Neighbors, or Classmates View Details. In the article it said he only wanted control over his project, not that he wanted to run the place, which is what you seemed to imply? I’ll do it again with millions yet my employees and suppliers will get screwed again. But even then, his concept of marketing isn’t traditional. But you can figure that out on your own. I’m sure there are two sides to that story though. As my computer science professor once poignantly said, “Some companies innovate. I tried it with Remington and I tried with a different scenario with SIG — it all ended the same way.”, Brittingham tells TTAG that his new venture has “tens of millions of dollars” behind it, including some of his own cash. At this point I doubt silencers are a priority and that they will ever go into full production. There are 8 professionals named "Kevin Brittingham", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. My bet is that Sig drops silencers fast. Kevin Brittingham: I think we’re more of an innovation company that specializes in small arms. and, if they didn’t see that coming, their not “managers”. The other guy (Woz?) Hey, I worked for Microsoft for 10 years – and I can definitively say that Bill Gates hated, “That damned paperclip.” – Clippy – just as much as the rest of us. Public Figure. So, when we caught word that Kevin Brittingham and some of his comrades were creating a company named Q, we jumped at the chance to offer their highly-anticipated silencers to firearm enthusiasts. We have 4 records for Beth Brittingham ranging in age from 42 years old to 65 years old. This is Me - Control Profile. Apparently Microsoft refused and backed off. Development is fun. I hope he uses his genius to bring us lots of cool stuff. For silencer buyers, that will be a Martha Stewart ‘Good Thing’. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. 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This entry was posted That is not at all intended to be a slight against him, but like others have mentioned, this is now two companies where this has happened. We’ve shipped three of twelve silencers we developed.”. In addition to a new personal home, the Q factory is just a mile from his former office at SIG. Kevin Brittingham started Advanced Armament Corporation when he was 19 years old. Looking for great things out of that shop. I agree with Vhyrus, It sounds like he is a sh!tty team player. He added that SIG SAUER will “continue to bring the highest quality firearms to the American market” and remain committed to the silencer category. . Right before SHOT Show, we told you Kevin Brittingham planned to form a new company after recently leaving SIG SAUER. They don’t care about you or the customer or the product, they only care about the returns. As one of his closest friends has often said, “There’s a little Gemtech inside every AAC can”. I didn’t fall in love with guns — I love the innovation,” Brittingham told me during a very candid interview. Bill Gates’ main achievements were buying someone else’s operating system and licensing it (MS-DOS), and stealing ideas for a user interface from Xerox PARC (to create Windows). Brittingham sees his own role at Q as recruiting, steering the boat, funding and to a certain degree, marketing. Kevin Brittingham's Reputation Profile. I’m not sure if this is all true, maybe somebody who knows better can chime in. I wish Kevin well. Gates bought DR-DOS from Digital Research and modified it because DR didn’t know what to do with it. After one hit and two very obvious fails, if I was asked to invest, I’d be more than a bit concerned the hit was mainly due to being at the right place at the right, silencers blew up, time; and that the man’s most enduring talent, is simply thinking a bit too highly of himself. The rest is history. I can definitely see how he felt they were wasting his time. And we need more 40MM / 37MM offerings. If you want cookie cutter, you've come to the wrong place. That whole statement is confusing. Big green destroys the best things about everything it touches these days. I can’t believe this myth still keeps kicking around, like it matters. Kevin Brittingham Speaks on the Honey Badger. lol, posted at same time as above, looks like we all agree. Along with suppressors and a bolt-action rifle of their own design, Q has also developed and marketed an improved Honey Badger. His business inspirations aren’t gun companies but rather business giants like Amazon and Red Bull who have changed the rules. . ... Ruger, Sig, or Springfield might have a legal team and checkbook to make a larger and louder defense but a niche company like Q will not have that resource. Now, they are competitors when they could have been partners or investors. 94k Followers, 497 Following, 2,730 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Q (@the_official_q) I’m surprised it took him this long to leave and go back to doing his own thing again. I am sure that the man is a genius in his field, but that doesn’t always translate to a good team player. This is no small task, and is the reason why it is now a ridiculously successful cartridge by all standards. Or he could’ve just not sold out AAC in the first place and avoided this whole fiasco the past 7 years…. Low bore axis is such a minutiae thing, compared to everything else in handgun design. Jobs was a POS. Holy crap, he’s yanking the carpet from under Sig. Why did AAC sell in the first place? If Kevin was such a bad business person, AAC would not have been the success that it was. Kevin Brittingham Account Executive at Mount Royal Printing Company, Inc Baltimore, Maryland Area 500+ connections With all of the company’s employees sitting around a table (it’s a small company, and a big table) Q’s HMIC, Kevin Brittingham, told them he wanted a bolt gun. His last few months have been particularly contentious to the point where there’s some question as to whether Kevin quit or was fired. While that didn’t come to fruition, they now had a gun they could sell in California, which is a huge market for any company with a compliant product. Brittingham developed The Fix for a few different reasons, including the possibility of Hillary Clinton presidential election. 1 Profile Search Follow. I spoke with Kevin on the phone. Under Brittingham's direction, AAC grew to be one of the largest suppressor manufacturers in the U.S., including a number of small military contracts. Some people, like Steve Jobs, cannot work effectively in a hierarchical corporate culture. As part of Q’s 12 and 36 month plans, Brittingham has built in incremental growth and team building as crucial to success. The DMLS technology is even faster with prototyping = production. Will he locate his new venture in Georgia? I’ve been fortunate in the past to work for someone brutally bright. Good luck finding different hand guards or barrels for an MPX, for example. Now, wouldn’t that be visionary……. View the profiles of professionals named "Kevin Brittingham" on LinkedIn. I can totally understanding bailing from Team Green. The whole story is laid bare in court documents you can find online. They got popular back in the late 2000’s, back when it was basically them, Thunderbeast Arms, Liberty, and a few other small shops making cans for the civilian market. Visionaries can be an invaluable asset to an organization, but they should very rarely be left to run the place. Having been in the NFA game for quite a long time, Kevin Brittingham formed Q with many notches of experience on his belt that has helped a relatively newer company soar to our top selling list. there is no torture or punishment too cruel for whomever brought “Clippy” into existence. We reserve the right to refuse advertising to anyone Kevin Brittingham founded Advanced Armament Corporation in 1994 to manufacture sound suppressors, having previously been a distributor for GEMTECH, another suppressor manufacturer. Steve Jobs (one of my personal heros/idols) was universally hated by all but a select few people, because he was a massive prick. By. He was primarily responsible for taking this wildcat cartridge and getting it SAAMI approved. Let’s just see how a new company comes in to immediately snag a military contract I guess? 3 Profile Searches Follow. It will be interesting to watch. Along with suppressors and a bolt-action rifle of their own design, Q has also developed and marketed an improved Honey Badger. Now it’s happening, and quickly. All Rights Reserved. Surprised he is sharing shipping/sales numbers. Awww .Little Kevin didn’t get his way so he took his ball and went home….again. Kevin speak… I used other peoples money and ideas to start and run AAC. I was scheming to pick up a an SRD556Ti along with an MCX 10.5 to either pin/weld or SBR. He sold one of the guys ideas to some corp for like 2 grand or something, and then gave him like 200 and said “here’s your half.” I’m badly mangling this but that was the gist of it. “We shipped a couple million dollars [worth of silencers],” Brittingham said. Q Concepts was already taken… Or maybe they just like my name. The goal is Silencers, Accessories and Firearms by SHOT Show 2017. Copyright © Soldier Systems Daily 2008-2020. He was with them a year, pretty much brough AAC 2.0 designs with him, they made like three models out of twelve. While it’s a small company and people are going to be wearing a lot of hats, ambitions are high. If they treat them right and invest in the future SIG could make some awesome stuff.”. It makes me wonder why Americans are so jealous of success, but it does explain the popularity of Bernie Sanders. “We had close to ten million in back orders.” According to Brittingham, production lagged behind demand, as the company pursued other priorities. As for Sig, maybe Kevin didn’t want to put out what are essentially a few products, but in different color schemes, and lean heavily on the reputation (and pricing) of the products that he produced in the past?…. I wonder if they have lost focus chasing silencers, ammunition, optics, airguns (wtf? Love the URL… “kevin-brittingham-leaves-sig-sauer-forms-his-own-company-with-blackjack-and-hookers”. Named simply Q, they’ll start out … Whenever a new suppressor manufacturer joins the ranks of our impressive list, we at Silencer Shop are always busting at the seams. Now if only they could figure out how to make a striker fired handgun with a low bore axis. Why use your money when you can use someone else’s? Can’t wait to see the stuff he and his guys start putting out. I think we are going to see good things from this new company. He sees it as “knowing what we’re doing and giving people the right opportunities.” Although he doesn’t want to grow too fast, he knows exactly where he wants to be. Stealing from Gemtech? Either that or the Q from Star Trek! Remington just didn’t do their homework. Kevin Brittingham started a little company called Advanced Armament Corp a while back. In the more than two decades that have passed, he has helped to influence the silencer, ammunition and firearms industries in dramatic fashion. Beth has been found in 7 cities including Woodstock, Germantown, Derwood, Denton, Delmar, and 2 others. They may give it lip service because their management “how-to” books in the self-help section of B&N tell them to, but they don’t get it. As an entrepreneur myself I get what Kevin is saying. He just recycled from Maxim. Named simply Q, they’ll start out with just 10 employees, but it’s quite the lineup. Brittingham loves the area and has put down roots. Major problem in the US is in the last 40yrs we have be churning out thousands of “Business majors” that go with plan Chicom. Those that follow the suppressor industry closely know that Brittingham recently left SIG Sauer after a very short time there and he is best recognized as the founder of Advanced Armament Company (AAC). It is nice to be wealthy and be able to do that. Well.. maybe the K baffle.. Right before SHOT Show, we told you Kevin Brittingham planned to form a new company after recently leaving SIG SAUER. Kevin Brittingham. Kevin Brittingham, the executive behind a wide range of innovative products produced by SIG SAUER, has left the building. All out there are very good to outstanding, we just need more people to have them. To generate sales, the concept is initially to concentrate on government customers and then work toward commercial sales of those products. Doing something with it is much harder. Why anyone caves to them, especially small private firms is beyond me. were scrounging for work. Glad I didn’t. I look forward to seeing what he churns out. If Brittingham has the backing to pull that off, he will succeed. That’s the entire issue. Do you know of a quicker way to make $20 million? As far as XRX PARC goes, you got your history wrong. A statement is written by the company. Kevin Brittingham is on Facebook. Thats generally how being a lot smarter than just about everyone else in the room is usually received. He’s completely unfiltered, brilliant and cognizant. We reached out to SIG SAUER for a statement about Brittingham leaving the company. I used other peoples money again at SIG. Everyone I worked with on a day-to-day basis was amazing. My oldest is entering kindergarten this year and I cant help but think of the teacher evaluation form we had to fill out. Another interesting thing is the ages of the company’s members. Q made a name for itself with products like their Trash Panda and Thunder Chicken , to just name a few. I think the potential is unlimited. I hope Q as in Q Branch. If I could describe Q in one word it would be ambitious, but it’s not as if he’s starting from scratch. However, in the Winter of 2011, AAC’s founder and President Kevin Brittingham left the company. “The average worker at SIG is smarter than anyone else in the industry. Kevin if you read this , I’m a registered nurse but have worked in mental health since 2002, I would make a great customer relations asset to your new venture. Kevin was always a megalomaniac, and he sold out to Remington because he didn’t have the cashflow to fullfill orders, blaming the delays on “fulfilling military orders first.” The truth was that he was close to filing bankruptcy, but to save face he put the word out that AAC might be for sale for the right price. Kevin Brittingham doesn’t mess around, announcing a 1 March launch of his new brand. I vaguely remember Linus Torvalds talking about Microsoft either suing him or claiming that Linux is using Microsoft’s ever secretive code. For a actual PRODUCT can either call the Chicoms/PLA and send $ OR you have to be willing to get your hands dirty, able to handle details, and figure out how to with designers, engineers, toolmakers, production (IE play well with others). He said he plans to conduct live fire demos of three preproduction firearms at SHOT, although he wouldn’t get into specifics. He left the companies on his own, wasn’t fired. was the inventor. Kevin Brittingham, founder of the Advanced Armament Corp. and inventor of 300 AAC Blackout, has been hired on to take the lead of SIG's new silencer works. But that’s a large part of what makes him successful in that field. And this is not Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. The Freedom Group put Brittingham in golden handcuffs, but Brittingham chafed under Remington’s corporate culture, to say the least. I do not know the specifics, but this does not surprise me. It has to be light and it has to be cool, he said. Criminal or Civil Court records found on Kevin's Family, Friends, Neighbors, or Classmates View Details. I certainly wish him the best and excited to see what he turns out. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Investors participating solely for the returns worked out pretty well for OSS. Now it’s happening, and quickly. One of his goals is to give young people a shot and he’ll be looking for promising talent. “I offered the last two years to work for a dollar a year if I had control of my [projects],” Kevin said. Kevin Brittingham founded AAC, and his success was due in part to the culture that the company cultivated. . He said, “You don’t have to be somewhere for 20 years to show everyone you are deserving.”. But they seemed to have plenty of resources to fight BATFE for the Sig Muzzle Break and the Sig Brace. “They’re great for urban encroachment,” said the company’s founder, Kevin Brittingham. and Comments (RSS). If they were worried about tarnishing the Sig Sauer brand, they could have given the subsidiary another name until it proved itself. Lawsuits, Liens or Bankruptcies found on Kevin's Background Report Criminal or Civil Court records found on Kevin's Family, Friends, Neighbors, or Classmates View Details. In the article it said he only wanted control over his project, not that he wanted to run the place, which is what you seemed to imply? I’ll do it again with millions yet my employees and suppliers will get screwed again. But even then, his concept of marketing isn’t traditional. But you can figure that out on your own. I’m sure there are two sides to that story though. As my computer science professor once poignantly said, “Some companies innovate. I tried it with Remington and I tried with a different scenario with SIG — it all ended the same way.”, Brittingham tells TTAG that his new venture has “tens of millions of dollars” behind it, including some of his own cash. At this point I doubt silencers are a priority and that they will ever go into full production. There are 8 professionals named "Kevin Brittingham", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. My bet is that Sig drops silencers fast. Kevin Brittingham: I think we’re more of an innovation company that specializes in small arms. and, if they didn’t see that coming, their not “managers”. The other guy (Woz?) Hey, I worked for Microsoft for 10 years – and I can definitively say that Bill Gates hated, “That damned paperclip.” – Clippy – just as much as the rest of us. Public Figure. So, when we caught word that Kevin Brittingham and some of his comrades were creating a company named Q, we jumped at the chance to offer their highly-anticipated silencers to firearm enthusiasts. We have 4 records for Beth Brittingham ranging in age from 42 years old to 65 years old. This is Me - Control Profile. Apparently Microsoft refused and backed off. Development is fun. I hope he uses his genius to bring us lots of cool stuff. For silencer buyers, that will be a Martha Stewart ‘Good Thing’. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. 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