2023 Handcuff Brands

Active Brands
Actively sold and credible brands used around the world . 

AHC
Alcyon
AlfaProj
ASP
Bonowi
Chicago
Clejuso
CTS Thompson
Hagge
Hiatts
Hulkkuffs
Kel-Met
Kyung Chang
MTS
Nextorch
Peerless
Rivolier
SAF-LOK
Smith & Wesson
SHN
S-TEN CUFF
STUN-CUFF
TCH
Winchester
Yuil

Private Labels
These all likely match a Chinese or other origin with private brand names. Note that most of these have no official website because they are just a private label brand.

Brifield
Blackfield
ESP
Fury
MTech
Rothco
TacStealth
UZI
Yoghourds
Vipertek 
Vulcanforce 

Defunct Brands
These were all either made and discontinued or never saw the light of day

Code4
Cuffbar
Gotcha
Level III
SpiderCuff
Tuff Kuffs

Brand Notes

Smith & Wesson has messed up their website. There are no working web routes as of 1/16/23 that link to a directory of handcuff products. You can find individual handcuff products by searching for 'handcuffs' on smith-wesson.com.

MTS may have discontinued their handcuffs. The handcuff image on the official website appears to be a stock photo and doesn't actually look like MTS handcuff designs that retailers sell. There is also no information about handcuff products in their product catalog you can download.

Rivolier seems to have no working websites. I have found two independently managed websites and both lead to blank webpages. 

Nextorch maintains multiple international websites. They seem to use a template that was never actually graduated by the designer. You can see template text that was never replaced on sections of their websites. Anyway the USA website is above and here is the .de link nextorch.de

Clejuso sells some of their handcuffs with color options and black teflon coated models even though their website doesn't make it easy to find the color options. retail color options

CTS Thompson confirmed you can order TRIMAX in color through HCW with a minimum order of 30 pieces for each color ordered. 

HCW confirmed you can order Chicago X22 in BLACK with a minimum order of 860 pieces.

Afla-Proj are Czech handcuffs that were previously branded as Ralkem

Chicago, Winchester, and possibly CTS-Thompson are made in Taiwan by a company that does not sell handcuffs under its own brand.

Each included product in the active list is assumed to be respected and quality controlled to some level and not some five time replica of a generic handcuff design from China with ten different rebranded names 

I'd love if Code4, Gotcha,  Level III Cuffs, and Spidercuff were made!

Yeah it's too bad they all went bust

I will add that Nextorch does match the design of a Chinese generic model handcuff which has been branded as ESP, Yoghourds, and Brifrield but based on Coxys opinion and some users here have pointed out that Nextorch seems to be a seriously improved design over its generic base

Are you sure that the S-TEN handcuffs are no longer available, their WebSite is still showing them.
There are lots more manufacturers that are no longer producing handcuffs especially:

LaTrobe
RCS
Froggatt
Nichols
SMCo
SFCo
Hudson

That’s just a few of the UK makers,

good point i missed the active order form for s-ten cuffs. as far as the other brands go i will read up on them and see how recent they were. i am not really looking to add manufacturers to the list that stopped producing say three decades ago. 

this is more of a modern list within the past ten to twenty years and focuses really on more innovative designs as opposed to say the era of 'darby' restraints.

I wonder if they ship these on retail purchase to the USA ;)

Surface-to-air missiles - MTS

No need to ship them to the States. Most of them are probably made here already.

Does anyone know if LIPS still makes-rebrands Hagge handcuffs and what the official LIPS website if they do? 

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Jan 16, 2023

I wonder if they ship these on retail purchase to the USA ;)

Surface-to-air missiles - MTS

It seems that this MTS is just a reseller. They cannot produce Soviet heavy weapons such as the S-300 long-range anti-aircraft system.