“We’re not going to get lightbulbs from candles if everyone is making the same stuff,” said Bobby West, founder and owner of CGS Group. “Everyone doing the same designs the same way doesn’t push the ball forward.” Right in the middle of our first conversation about new engineering tools, manufacturing, materials science, and, importantly, silencers, West managed to distill his philosophy of life, and by extension his company, into two sentences.
West founded CGS Group at the tail end of 2014, and their first product was the opposite of quiet — the Pandora detonator, most commonly used for breaching charges. It would be 2017 before their first suppressor, the earliest example of the Hyperion, would go through testing for a USASOC small-frame sniper rifle project. Though they didn’t end up with that contract, it solidified their decision to continue their work with silencers. That original Hyperion, though not without its warts, would be the basis of all that came after for CGS.
HOW IT’S MADE
CGS Group isn’t shy about using exotic materials. Their first foray into this arena was with
