Midwest Tactical Inc. was founded in 2005 by Frank and Joy Goepfert. In 2008 the financial crisis of the recession hit and Midwest Tactical began to buy up machine gun collections across the United States from dealers closing their doors and collectors looking to part with their guns. When Midwest Tactical started marketing their guns on the internet the business grew exponentially. The company owns their own listing site: GunSpot.com. Today 99% of the MWT’s business is done over the internet.