Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a commission — at no extra cost to you. That is how this site stays free to read.

More important than any commission: two of the brands we cover — Accufire (optics) and TactiBeaver (safes) — are sister brands of Scope & Safe under common ownership. We tell you that up front, and we explain below exactly how we keep our rankings honest anyway.

How we keep our rankings honest anyway

A review site that only ever crowns its own products is worthless to you and obvious to everyone. So we hold ourselves to a few rules:

• We rank on merit, not ownership. Our "best of" orderings reflect real specifications, performance, and value. When a third-party product is the better pick, we say so and rank it first.
• We name and compare real competitors. Our optics guides weigh brands like Trijicon, Nightforce, Vortex, Holosun and EOTECH; our safe guides weigh Liberty, SentrySafe, Fort Knox and others. We don't pretend our sister brands are the only option.
• Our own brands don't automatically come first. In a head-to-head, an Accufire scope might rank below a premium Nightforce on glass quality while winning on value — and we'll show you exactly that, with the trade-off spelled out.
• Prices and specs are verified, not invented. We pull live pricing and stock from each store, and we cite sources for competitor pricing and specifications. We do not fabricate test data, ratings, or reviewer credentials.

What an affiliate link is (and isn't)

An affiliate link is a normal product link that lets the merchant know you came from us. If you click it and buy, the merchant credits the referral. It costs you nothing — the price you see is the price you pay. It is not an ad, a pop-up, a pixel that follows you around the web, or a subscription. Clicking is just visiting a product page.

How to spot a disclosed link in our posts

• A banner near the top of the article: "We may earn a commission from links on this page, including from our sister brands Accufire and TactiBeaver."
• Outbound links to our stores carry a rel="sponsored nofollow" attribute.
• If we ever run a paid placement from an outside brand, it gets a clear "Sponsored by [Brand]" banner. We do not currently run any.

You always have a non-affiliate option

Every product we link is easy to find on your own — search the model name on the store's site or the retailer of your choice. The product and the price are the same; the only difference is whether we get credited for the referral. Both are completely fine with us.

How we currently make money

This reflects our active monetization as of the date above, and we'll update it whenever it changes:

• Our sister stores — Accufire and TactiBeaver (described above). This is currently our primary source of revenue.
• Third-party affiliate programs — we may add programs that cover other optics, safe, and firearm-accessory brands. When we do, we'll list them here and label those links the same way.

We do not run banner ads, sell paid backlinks, or accept payment for inclusion or position in our "best of" lists.

Why this disclosure exists

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires reviewers to disclose material connections to the brands they recommend — including affiliate commissions and, especially, common ownership — clearly and conspicuously. Beyond the legal requirement, we think you simply deserve to know when an opinion might be financially incentivized, so you can weigh it accordingly.

Questions or corrections

See something that looks like it should have been disclosed but wasn't? Email [email protected] with the URL and what you noticed, and we'll correct it quickly. For more, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.