Will Hayden and his team of gunsmiths at Baton Rouge-based Red Jacket Firearms are hired to do the impossible: make an extremely rare Civil War cannon fire, 150 years after it last saw action; create a twin M16 gun mount that can fire hundreds of rounds a minute within changing magazines for a Navy special teams boat gunner; restore a flamethrower as a tribute to a World War II Marine Veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. This is all in a day’s work for Hayden and his team who embrace the motto “If you can dream it, we can build it.”.
As a straight shooter and an avid historian, Will is a trusted expert to handle the requests of Red Jacket’s major clients – law enforcement, military and collectors. From guns and knives to swords and cannons, Will sells, trades, buys, builds and customises them all. While weapons manufacturers are making attachable silencers for AK-47’s, Will takes it a step further – creating internal silencers that enable police departments to be even stealthier in threatening situations. And when the sheriff’s department needs to turn two guns – a shotgun and a rifle – into one, they call Will.
Keeping the Baton Rouge-based operation running is Will’s daughter Stephanie. While she has been running the business side of things since the shop opened ten years ago, she is a weapons expert in her own right – and can out-shoot the best of them at the range.
In season two of SONS OF GUNS, Will, Stephanie and the crew of Red Jacket Firearms take on some of their toughest challenges yet. Can the team join three M16’s together in what Will calls a Triamese? Is it possible to silence a grenade launcher? And what happens when the crew combines an AK and a sniper rifle?
SONS OF GUNS premieres Thursday, 9 February at 11pm (10pm BKK/JKT).