Allen Arms Tactical vs Primary Arms
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 | Primary Arms | |
|---|---|---|
| Active SKUs | 1,565 | 812 |
| Distinct UPCs | 1,565 | 811 |
| Shared UPCs (both carry) | 1 | |
| Only at this distributor | 1,564 | 810 |
| Uptime | 100% | 99.9% |
| Integration | API | API |
| Freshness | Synced 58 minutes ago | Synced 13 hours 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 | Primary Arms | |
|---|---|---|
| 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?
Allen Arms Tactical lists 1,565 distinct UPCs to Primary Arms's 811 — about 1.9× the breadth. 1 UPCs are carried by both — 0% of what Allen Arms Tactical lists and 0% of what Primary Arms lists. Beyond that overlap, 1,564 UPCs appear on Allen Arms Tactical alone and 810 on Primary Arms alone. If you open one account, Allen Arms Tactical is the wider of the two on its own — it leaves 810 UPCs unreachable, against 1,564 if you open Primary Arms instead. Carrying both reaches 2,375 distinct UPCs, 810 more than Allen Arms Tactical covers alone. Over the window we monitor, the Allen Arms Tactical feed answered us 100% of the time and the Primary Arms feed 99.9%.
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.
Primary Arms
Primary Arms syncs the smallest catalog Project Parabellum connects to today, delivered through a dealer API on the same automated schedule as the other API-connected distributors here. Because the catalog is narrow, it works best as a secondary source that fills a specific gap rather than as the account a storefront builds its general inventory around.
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 Primary Arms dealer account — The narrow catalog makes this a supplemental source rather than a primary distributor.
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.