---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-075246"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWBI"
cik: "0001092796"
company_name: "SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-03-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T08:58:11.628232+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smith & Wesson amends bylaws to let 25% stockholders call special meetings

## Summary
- Stockholders owning at least 25% of common stock may request a special meeting.
- Amendments include restrictions on timing, matters previously considered, and compliance requirements.
- Board approved amendments effective March 20, 2024.
- Technical, ministerial, and conforming changes also made.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-075246
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWBI
- cik: 0001092796
- company_name: SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-03-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312524075246/0001193125-24-075246-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312524075246/d812460d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.: Bylaws amended to permit stockholders owning at least 25% of outstanding common stock to request a special meeting, with timing and other restrictions (effective 2024-03-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-03-20
  source text: On March 20, 2024, the board of directors (the “ Board ”) of Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “ Company ”), approved and adopted effective as of such date certain amendments to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “ Bylaws ”). The Bylaws were amended to permit stockholders owning, individually or in the aggregate, at least 25% of the outstanding common stock of the Company to request a special meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312524075246/0001193125-24-075246-index.htm

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