Elite Defense was incorporated as Elite Arms, Inc. in 2007 in order to assist small to medium size small arms accessory manufacturers with international marketing, representation, export compliance, and distribution management. With the complications and costs of operating internationally on the rise, Elite is able to offset the expenses and overhead of maintaining international sales channels by distributing those burdens across a pool of non-competing product manufacturers. 

Elite maintains an international network of over ninety vetted distributors around the globe, and works extensively with MoDs and MoIs to facilitate direct sales to militaries and law enforcement organizations.