For years, Americans were lectured that the era of domestic manufacturing was over. The experts insisted globalization was permanent. Factories would stay overseas. Supply chains would remain dependent on foreign labor. If you wanted to build products affordably, you had to build them abroad. That was the conventional wisdom.
Then Donald Trump returned to the political stage, promising aggressive tariffs and a renewed push to bring industry home. And one CEO in Indiana decided not to wait around to see whether Washington would follow through.
Bryan Ganz, the head of Byrna Technologies, saw what was coming and made a move that critics claimed was unrealistic, even impossible.
Instead of bracing for tariffs, he acted before they ever took effect.
Byrna Technologies manufactures non-lethal self-defense launchers used by civilians and law enforcement agencies across the country, from Texas to Indiana. For years, a significant portion of the company’s supply chain relied on overseas production, including ammunition manufactured in South Africa.
But when Trump’s election momentum became clear, Ganz made a decisive call.
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