Allen Arms Tactical vs Bill Hicks Co
Both catalogs are synced into one shared vocabulary, so the same UPC can be counted on either side and matched across them. Everything below is what we measured in the two feeds — how much each one lists, how much of it is the same product, and what only one of them carries.
| Allen Arms Tactical | Bill Hicks Co | |
|---|---|---|
| Active SKUs | 1,565 | 30,682 |
| Distinct UPCs | 1,565 | 30,680 |
| Shared UPCs (both carry) | 548 | |
| Only at this distributor | 1,017 | 30,132 |
| Uptime | 100% | 100% |
| Integration | API | API |
| Freshness | Synced 58 minutes ago | Synced 1 hour ago |
Where each one will ship it
Taken from each company’s own site on the dates shown on their individual pages. Running a drop-ship programme and naming where the parcel goes are separate questions, and most distributors answer only the first — so “Not stated” below means they have not published it, not that they refuse.
| Allen Arms Tactical | Bill Hicks Co | |
|---|---|---|
| Ships to your store | Yes | Yes |
| Offers drop-shipping | Yes source | Not stated |
| Ships to your customer's FFL | Not stated | Not stated |
| Ships to your customer's address | Not stated | Not stated |
| Ships NFA items to a receiving SOT | Yes source | Not stated |
Every distributor here ships to your own licensed premises — that is what a wholesale account is, not a policy any one of them publishes. Confirm anything you will act on directly with the distributor.
Which should you open?
Bill Hicks Co lists 30,680 distinct UPCs to Allen Arms Tactical's 1,565 — about 19.6× the breadth. 548 UPCs are carried by both — 35% of what Allen Arms Tactical lists and 2% of what Bill Hicks Co lists. Beyond that overlap, 1,017 UPCs appear on Allen Arms Tactical alone and 30,132 on Bill Hicks Co alone. If you open one account, Bill Hicks Co is the wider of the two on its own — it leaves 1,017 UPCs unreachable, against 30,132 if you open Allen Arms Tactical instead. Carrying both reaches 31,697 distinct UPCs, 1,017 more than Bill Hicks Co covers alone. Both feeds answered us 100% of the time over the window we monitor.
This is arithmetic on the counts above, not a recommendation of one company over the other. Which account is worth opening also depends on terms and on what your customers ask for, neither of which is in the catalog data we measure. What each company publishes about shipping destinations is in the table above it.
Allen Arms Tactical
Allen Arms Tactical carries one of the smaller catalogs Project Parabellum syncs, focused on a lean assortment rather than trying to cover every category a general-purpose counter needs. For a dealer who already has a primary distributor for volume ordering, an account here works well as a secondary source to fill gaps or chase a specific item when a bigger distributor is out of stock. Its size also means a full sync completes quickly.
Bill Hicks Co
Bill Hicks & Co. runs a broad catalog that Project Parabellum polls over a dealer API on an automated schedule. Breadth here is a matter of assortment width rather than depth in any one line, so on this hub it shows up as a distributor that has something to say about a lot of different searches. Whether that is worth an account depends on how many narrower distributors you would otherwise be reconciling by hand.
Applying for a dealer account
- Apply for a Allen Arms Tactical dealer account — Because the catalog is smaller, check availability here as a secondary source rather than a primary one.
- Apply for a Bill Hicks Co dealer account — Breadth is the reason to open this account; if your other distributors are narrow specialists, this is the one that fills the spaces between them.
Both links leave this site. Applications are submitted to, reviewed by, and approved by the distributor themselves — Project Parabellum is not part of that process and cannot speed it up or vouch for you.