Silencer Saturday #412: Precision Armament TiTrex Suppressor

by Daniel Y

Published: December 27th, 2025

silencer saturday 412 precision armament titrex suppressor

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Victra-12 shotgun suppressor. This week, we are taking a look at the new TiTrex suppressor from Precision Armament. It is a 3D-printed design with an interesting design philosophy.

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One programming note: This is the final Silencer Saturday column of 2025, and it has been quite a year! Some of our most-read articles were about the legal situation in the US, and the coming year will be one of changes. But one thing that has remained constant is Yankee Hill Manufacturing sponsoring this series, which will continue for 2026. Thank you, YHM, for making this column possible, and I am looking forward to the projects we have planned for next year.

Before we get into the article, we should mention the current US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives paperwork situation. Those of you currently ordering suppressors should be aware that the ATF eForms site is currently offline for Form 1 and Form 4 submissions. The system is expected to be back online for the January 1st surge of free submissions. Whether the system will survive the influx or not remains to be seen, but I would bet against it if I were a betting man and if it were available on Polymarket (it is not, at least as of writing). With that out of the way, let’s move to the TiTrex.

Precision Armament TiTrex

Precision Armament is new to the suppressor game, but not to firearms parts and accessories. They are probably best known for their muzzle brakes (M4-72, Hypertap) and hybrid muzzle devices (EFAB, AFAB), but they also make parts like recoil lugs, scope rails, and bolt knobs. You may also be familiar with the AccuWasher system for timing muzzle devices without guesswork.

While they have made many other things that mount on the muzzle of rifles, suppressors are a new product category. The TiTrex is a new titanium suppressor designed around additive manufacturing. 3D printing is quickly becoming the norm for silencer making because it allows for very creative internal designs without sacrificing strength or being cost-prohibitive to manufacture.

We will get into the specifics of the internal design later, but suffice it to say that without 3D printing, there would be no way to make the innards. It also means that, rather than a stack of baffles in a tube, or even welded together without a tube, this is a one-piece unit. There are no welds that can fail.

Xband

One unique design feature is the Xband serialized component. Under US law, the part with the serial number on it is the silencer. The rest of the parts are still regulated silencer bits, but are not legally the silencer. Traditional silencers had serialized outer tubes. Tubeless designs often place the serial number on the blast baffle, the strongest and most central portion of the can.

The Xband takes this progression one step further. Rather than a serialized component that is integral to the baffle system, it fits on the outside of the baffle unit. Should the baffle stack need maintenance or changes, the Xband can slide onto a completely new baffle stack. This is a similar idea to serialized oil filter adapters (where the filter body can be scrapped and replaced), but classy. This future-proofs the design as well, so improvements to internal geometry, different calibers, and different materials are all upgrade options without changes to the serialized part.

NURBS

The guts of the TiTrex suppressor have a new design, entitled “Non-Uniform Reconvergent Baffle Stack” or NURBS. I am a lawyer (definitely not an engineer), and I make my living with the definitions and applications of words, so let’s break this down. “Non-uniform… baffle stack” is pretty straightforward for most suppressor geeks. The baffles comprising the stack are not uniform. They differ from other baffles. “Reconvergent” is a fun word that I had to Google. Common definitions include “the point or process of merging again” or “to converge again.” For there to be a reconvergence, it implies that something diverged in the first place; in this case, it is probably the gas paths that separate and then come back together.

The FAQ section of the TiTrex product page also refers to “precise flow control through surface contouring and baffle topology alone.” Rather than a very complex structure, NURBS “topology” (which is the “study of properties of spaces that remain unchanged under continuous deformations like stretching or bending”) moves the gases around in an effective way without looking like a labyrinth inside.

This blurb about the testing and development process explains how this was all tested and validated: “The TiTrex suppressor wasn’t rushed to market - it was engineered through one of the most exhaustive test programs we’ve ever run. The Xband serialized ring went through dozens of design iterations to guarantee lifetime core exchangeability. Sound performance was refined through a rigorous DOE-driven acoustic program. Structural strength was optimized with FEA modeling and then validated through dozens of destructive tests, including impulse-fatigue cycles, ultra-short-barrel magnum abuse, and full-auto thermal meltdown trials. We also ran precision POI-shift studies to confirm minimal aerodynamic influence on bullet flight. Every weakness was identified and corrected before release - so our customers are never beta testers.”

This design keeps weight as low as possible without sacrificing structural durability. The suppressor body itself weighs 7.2 ounces, and the full suppressor weighs 9.2 ounces with the mount and front cap. Though it is light, the TiTrex is rated up to .300 RUM on a 16-inch barrel.

Looking Ahead

So will the TiTrex live up to the hype? We will see for ourselves soon! A review sample is in process, and I look forward to testing it out once it arrives (and assuming that eForms does not melt down completely).

I am also planning to meet with Precision Armament at SHOT Show in January. The website lists several new things as “coming soon,” including 6.5mm and 9mm options. Who knows, perhaps there will be other things as well.

Thanks for joining us for the final Silencer Saturday of 2026! We will see you back here next week year!

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Daniel Y

AKA @fromtheguncounter on Instagram. Gun nerd, reloader, attorney, and mediocre hunter.

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Drew Yesterday

But you still can't swap unless you're a SOT so this seems like an improvement for the manufacturer in case of warranty recore and doesn't offer much advantage to the consumer who is unlikely to ever pay for a recore because of a newer design. Further the cost of the tax stamp being $0 now makes recores kinda pointless. Maybe I am missing something?

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Matt 10 hours ago

Drew, Precision Armament team here — thank you for taking the time to share a thoughtful perspective.

While an end user cannot personally swap a suppressor core, once you purchase a TiTrex™ suppressor you establish a direct, ongoing relationship with Precision Armament as the manufacturer. That relationship allows customers to ship their suppressor directly to us—without additional paperwork and with no third-party SOT involvement—for core exchange to suit their needs, whether for repair, upgrade, or configuration change. We perform the exchange in-house and return the suppressor directly to the owner quickly, without restarting the regulatory process.

This capability extends well beyond warranty service. One of the persistent realities of suppressor ownership is technological obsolescence. With conventional designs, when a suppressor becomes outdated—or when a materially better architecture is introduced—the only path forward is to purchase an entirely new device at full cost, with a new serial number, new registration, and a new approval wait, regardless of tax stamp price.

TiTrex™ was deliberately engineered to avoid that outcome. If a customer purchases a first-generation TiTrex™ suppressor and we later introduce a second-generation core architecture, existing owners are not locked into their original design. They can elect to have their suppressor re-cored to the newer architecture, allowing the same registered suppressor to evolve as the technology improves. In that sense, TiTrex™ is built as a long-term platform rather than a static product.

Even with the tax stamp cost now reduced to zero, the regulatory, time, and logistical burdens associated with replacement have not disappeared. If a conventional suppressor is damaged beyond repair, the owner still faces a new serial number, new registration, and a new approval wait. The X-CORE™ architecture avoids that scenario entirely. The serialized Xband™ component is engineered to be recoverable, allowing us to remove it, mate it to a brand-new core, and return the suppressor—often within days—without issuing a new serial number or initiating new paperwork.

There are also significant performance and durability benefits. Rebuilds on conventional welded suppressors often involve patching, re-welding, or bore re-machining, which can compromise appearance, alignment, and acoustic performance. With TiTrex™, any exchange—whether for repair, upgrade, or reconfiguration—results in an entirely new, factory-original core, not a repaired approximation of the original. The suppressor is returned functionally and acoustically as new.

In short, X-CORE™ technology and the serialized Xband™ component were designed to decouple the regulated component from the parts of the suppressor that wear out, can be damaged, or are improved as better technology is developed. The result is a suppressor that is purchased once, can evolve indefinitely, and is never rendered obsolete or irreparable by design.

We appreciate the thoughtful question—it is a reasonable way to view the concept given how suppressors have historically been built.

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