This is US
2AF was created to continue the excellent friendly service, custom AR builds, shooting supplies, as well as shooting and training events that we have been involved in over the past 20 years in the North Florida area.
Our mission is to put forth exceptional effort in offering top-shelf quality Tactical Weapons, Optics, Components, and Parts as well as Building and Configuring weapons to your specifications or historical significance. We strive to be your number one resource for customers seeking advice from experienced gun guys.
Read MoreA LITTLE ABOUT 2AF’s ORIGINS
We are Neil (1972-present; regular guy) and Tom (2007-2012; USMC/0311).
We’re working hard to offer you brands and products you don’t normally see together in one collection. These products have been assembled because we’ve regularly used or seen them used with a high degree of success. It doesn’t matter if you use these products for your job, competitively, or in training. We want your weapon to perform, all the time. Meeting or exceeding your expectations. If you’re at a match or a class, we want people to approach you and ask: “Where did you get that.” We want them to come to us to get it, too.
NEIL’S STORY
Neil moved to Florida in 1999 and began attending training classes from the best, qualified instructors he could find in the area. This is when he began to regularly attend EAG/Pat Rogers classes. Pat always started classes with a discussion about the importance of good gear. As a busy firearms instructor, he saw countless malfunctions from a wide variety of brands. He documented these malfunctions and saw a disproportionate number of them occurring with less expensive or “good for the money” type manufacturers. Neil didn’t realize it at the time, but after Pat passed away in 2016, he came to the conclusion that Pat’s gear discussions and his emphasis on quality equipment must have been what inspired the #nocheapcrap slogan and mantra that 2AF adopted for themselves and began to advocate others.
“Having shot and enjoyed IDPA in the late 90s, I really wanted to do something like that with rifles. But nothing I was looking for existed,” Neil explains.
By early 2000, Neil established the Florida Defensive Carbine Club to provide a shooting opportunity in between the classes he enjoyed so much. FDCC is a casual and loosely organized rifle/pistol match that, since its inception, holds events on the last Sunday of every month. Around 2007, Neil began hosting classes from well-known instructors. Bringing them to the area provided another opportunity for local gun owners to use their firearms in a way that went beyond your average range day. In 2016, FDCC expanded to start hosting quarterly SPR/DMR matches. These matches offered people the chance to shoot and move at distances greater than what they were able to previously offer. In 20+ years of matches, classes, and shooting with family and friends, Neil has rarely had any issue with any of the firearms he uses. He’s witnessed countless problems that range from minor to catastrophic. He’s seen people travel hundreds of miles to attend an expensive training class only to have their guns or gear fail early on, causing them to leave, miss the training, lose their time and investment, and ruin the experience. He didn’t want that to happen to himself and 2AF doesn’t want it to happen to you. Especially not with something you’ve received here.
Read Moretom’S STORY
Tom’s been in the firearms industry for the last seven years. He learned to shoot while in the Boy Scouts where he obtained the rank of Eagle Scout and has continued ever since. After graduating from high school, he joined the United States Marine Corps. While in the Marine Corps he was an infantry rifleman (0311) and obtained the rank of Sergeant. He served from 2007 to 2012. Shortly after he entered the firearms Industry and found a love for helping people get into shooting and firearm ownership.
There’s only one thing either of them loves as much as having good gear perform well when they shoot, and that’s seeing their customers love it just as much. If you do your part, better-than-average products will produce the type of reliable performance that will lead you to develop the same type of trust and pride of ownership you deserve.
Please contact Neil and Tom with any questions or concerns. We care about what we send out the door. We’re here to help.
Okay, enough of the personal stuff,
let’s get back to guns.
