Another troubled firearms retailer files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Firearms dealers proceed to conflict decreasing income that person forced definite retailers to record for bankruptcy extortion implicit the past year.

Among the firearms companies filing for bankruptcy successful 2026 are Attica, N.Y.-based Sagebrush Armory, which filed for bankruptcy connected March 24, 2026, and firearms shaper and dealer Custombilt Firearms Manufacturing LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Feb. 8, 2026, aft battling the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives implicit its licence successful 2023 and 2024.

And now, Hutco Corporation, the proprietor of the Delta Hawk Sportsman Gun & Pawn concatenation of stores, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reorganize its businesses, facing aggregate civilian claims.

Hutco Corporation files for bankruptcy

The Anderson, Calif.-based diversified enactment services provider, filed its petition successful the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California connected July 10, listing implicit $159,000 successful assets and implicit $337,000 successful liabilities, according to tribunal papers.

Hutco did not springiness a circumstantial crushed for filing for bankruptcy. The debtor was not instantly disposable for comment.

Hutco's largest creditors see United Capital Experts LLC, owed implicit $115,000 connected a disputed civilian claim; Kapitus Servicing, owed implicit $69,000 connected a loan; Mint Funding, owed implicit $40,000 connected a disputed indebtedness amount; Litefund Solutions LLC, owed implicit $37,000 connected a civilian claim; Cylerity Corporation, owed implicit $30,000 connected a loan; and the State Compensation Insurance Fund, owed implicit $20,000.

Hutco operates aggregate locations

Delta Hawk Sportsman Gun & Pawn, a federally licensed firearms trader with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, has locations successful Anderson, and Redding, Calif. The stores are inactive operating astatine past cheque connected Sept 12, 2026.

The institution besides operates its website, pawnshop4u.com, which volition buy, sell, loan, and merchantability connected consignment. The institution seeks to acquisition firearms, tools, gold, silver, jewelry, watches, bicycles, ATVs, RVs, automobiles, and electronics.

The debtor besides operates a information services firm, Delta Hawk Protective Agency and Investigations, located astatine the debtor's headquarters, 2700 West Street successful Anderson, which was listed connected the petition.

Hutco operates a pre-owned conveyance dealership successful Anderson, CarPawn4U, which buys, sells, and pawns automobiles and motorcycles. The dealership volition bargain vehicles, merchantability vehicles, and supply currency loans to car owners done its Cars4Pawn service.

Another of the genitor company's businesses is Designated Driver Services, which provides aesculapian transport for patients and aesculapian courier services for specimens, prescriptions, laboratory materials, aesculapian supplies, and confidential aesculapian documentation.