---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-024121"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWBI"
cik: "0001092796"
company_name: "SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T00:49:40.386050+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smith & Wesson signs $114.5M design-build contract for TN HQ; restructures lease guaranty

## Summary
- Amended and restated guaranty adds Smith & Wesson Sales as guarantor for Missouri lease; effective Jan 31, 2023.
- Lease assignment from SW Sales to American Outdoor Brands effective Jan 1, 2024, subject to Boone County approval.
- Design-build contract with Christman for Maryville, TN facility; guaranteed max price $114,533,853.
- Total project cost expected to exceed $120M due to inflation and supply chain issues.
- Conditions for lease assignment include receipt of landlord release and delivery of incentive documents.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-024121
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWBI
- cik: 0001092796
- company_name: SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312523024121/0001193125-23-024121-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312523024121/d426582d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-024121
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-024121.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-024121.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC. amended AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY with RCS – S&W FACILITY, LLC (effective 2023-01-31).
  - Action: amendment
  - Counterparty: RCS – S&W FACILITY, LLC
  - Effective: 2023-01-31
  source text: THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY (this “Guaranty”) is entered into by the undersigned (individually, collectively, jointly and severally, the “Guarantor”) this 31 st day of January, 2023 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312523024121/0001193125-23-024121-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.