OUR MISSION
At Munitionworks™, we believe that the fundamental building block of a healthy society is the citizen who is physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually prepared and equipped to effectively serve their family, neighbors, and community in times of common and/or dire need. As such, we seek to equip and prepare those citizens with the tools and knowledge necessary to effectively carry out that mission. Furthermore, we must all strive to protect and preserve innocent human life regardless of social standing, geographic position, or fundamental characteristics as all men from the beginning are made as image bearers of God with inherent value regardless of those categories.
WHO WE ARE
MUNITIONWORKS™ is a small, driven purveyor of public safety goods. Our work is constituted by the production and distribution of dependable defensive solutions and educational content for the Civilian Defense Industry. Whether that solution is a weapon system, load-bearing equipment, medical supplies, or a Bible, we commit ourselves to ensuring that everything we offer is tested, evaluated, and found suitable to its respective purpose in enabling the prepared citizen to preserve innocent life when the need arises.
Our work began humbly in April of 2020 as a passion project. While product lines have changed, our objective of providing tools and knowledge to help Americans to protect themselves and their communities has not. As protectors and providers first, we design and curate solutions that we trust with our lives and take pride in owning. At first, this mission began with market-expedient rifles and upper receiver groups during the tumultuous times of 2020. Since then, we have continued to look for ways to expand our offerings to better fulfil that calling and equip our customers.
As times change, so do the needs of the modern prepared citizen. We appreciate each and every one of you who has trusted us to meet those needs in the past and look forward to the opportunity to serve those of you who will in the future.
"DO IT. DO IT RIGHT. DO IT RIGHT NOW." a family tradition FROM THE OLD COUNTRY.
MUNITIONWORKS™ is truly a family company. Meet the rambunctious honyocks doing the work.
Dane Van Allen
Owner, chief builder
Being the youngest, Dane's passion for firearms began in the same place that all good things do: his big brother. Since his first mag dump out of Macen's shiny new black rifle, he was hooked.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2020 with a degree in Political Science, which has definitely been invaluable for his career development. His junior year, he picked up a part-time job at a local range to feed his growing gun bug. After graduation, he ran away to Sheboygan County and began to work on his dream of being a semi-prominent interstate arms dealer. The visionary and primary operator of the company, he spends his time designing the solutions we offer.
Macen Van Allen
ENGINEER, QUALITY PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
The eldest of the brothers, Macen is a mechanical engineer by trade, cyclist by passion, and motivator by nature. While earning his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University, he hopped on a bike and began to smash face accordingly. He worked his way from the bottom of Category 5 to racing with the big boy pros at the Redlands Classic and USA Cycling Nationals.
Today, for Munitionworks™, he brings a unique approach to the table. Combining his knowledge of man-deployed tools that go "boom" and quality processes with his inherent desire to break things, he developed our quality and testing protocols to make sure our builds will suffer through every bump and bruise along the way. When he isn't galivanting through the Rocky Mountains with his trusted side-kick and street rescue, Onyx, or riding a bike, he's burning powder to feed his chronic addiction to scent of popped primers and carbon particulate.
