Thomas Hadley
@thomashadleyweapons
Language: EnglishCountry: United States7 years old
- Persona: Thomas Hadley · Expert · Middle-aged
- Firearms
- Home defense
- Gun buying
- Prepping
- Amazon self-defense
- Survival gear
- Shotguns
- Subscribers
- 39.9K
- Total views
- 3.99M
- Videos
- 26
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Growth
Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days
Show the numbers
| Day (UTC) | Subscribers |
|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2026 | 39,900 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 39,100 |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 38,300 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 37,900 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | 37,700 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | 37,600 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 37,500 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 37,400 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 37,300 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 37,200 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 37,100 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 37,000 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 36,900 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 36,800 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 36,700 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 36,600 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 36,500 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 36,400 |
Top videos
Most viewed
Length 16:5210 Home-Defense Weapons Amazon Still Ships to Anyone — No Permit Required (For Now)
3.48M views
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Length 19:3310 LETHAL and LEGAL Home-Defense Weapons Amazon Still Ships to Anyone — Before They Ban Them
230K views
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Length 20:2410 MORE Home-Defense Weapons Amazon Still Ships to Your Door — No Permit Required
66.8K views
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Length 18:459 Cheap Items at an Army Surplus Store That Veterans Stockpile Before Anyone Else
46.1K views
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Length 18:5310 Dirt-Cheap Home-Defense Guns That Outperform Everything 5x Their Price
28.7K views
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Length 18:146 Guns Every American MUST Own
22.7K views
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Latest videos
Newest first
Length 15:55SMALLEST But DEADLIEST Shotguns for Home Defense!
4.47K views
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Length 18:0211 ULTIMATE Home Defense Weapons STILL Sold on Amazon
1.56K views
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Length 17:5810 LETHAL Cold Steel Self-Defense Weapons Amazon Still Ships to Anyone — No Permit Needed (For Now)
2.5K views
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Length 18:019 Home-Defense Weapons Amazon Will BAN First in 2027 - Get Yours Before It’s too Late!
3.57K views
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Length 18:459 Cheap Items at an Army Surplus Store That Veterans Stockpile Before Anyone Else
46.1K views
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Length 22:495 Guns The Industry is KILLING Because They’re Too Good (Get Yours Before It’s Too Late)
3.8K views
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How they sell it
- 1Video
- 2Descriptionstore link in the first line
- 3Landing pageGumroad · thomashadley.com
- 4CheckoutGumroad
- Store link in 96% of recent descriptions
- Link in descriptions since Aug 7, 2026
- Entry points: the first line of descriptions, the description body
Analysis
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Persona
Thomas Hadley
Expert · Middle-aged · Male · Table or outdoor field backdrop; red studio-style thumbnail backgrounds
- Niche
Home-defense weapons and gun-buying lists, with a gun-buyer's manual
- Audience
US adults interested in home defense, gun ownership and prepping, including first-time gun buyers (inferred from titles, descriptions and the about text; no audience data).
- Avatar
- Realistic avatar
- A photorealistic middle-aged man with a grey beard, camouflage cap and camo jacket, pointing at the camera or holding a firearm or gear. Backgrounds are red grids, outdoor fields or a wooden table.
- Format
Numbered list of products or guns (usually 5–12) with a fear-of-ban or urgency hook, a countdown with a drawback per item, then four rules and a subscribe ask; description links to a manual.
- Content pillars
- Amazon no-permit home-defense items
- Home-defense guns and shotguns
- Prepping and war-scenario guns
- Collectible and valuable rifles
- Gun myths, carry guns and rankings
- Veteran and surplus gear
- Title patterns
- [N] Home-Defense Weapons Amazon Still Ships to Anyone — No Permit Required (For Now)
- [N] Guns Every American MUST Own
- [N] [Items] You CANNOT Buy Anymore After 2026
- If [War] Starts Tomorrow – Here Are the Only [N] Guns That Will Save You
- [N] Cheap Items at an Army Surplus Store That Veterans Stockpile
- Thumbnails
Same bearded man in a camo cap at left, pointing or holding the product, with large 2–4 word yellow and white caps text ("GET YOURS NOW", "LEGAL FOR NOW!") on a red background, often with an Amazon box.
Their thumbnails, most viewed first
- Why it works
- One title formula, the Amazon no-permit list, appears in 4 of the 5 most viewed videos; the top one has 3.03M views
- The same persona and thumbnail layout across all 10 images makes the channel easy to recognise
- Urgency wording ("before they ban them", "for now", "after 2026") appears in many of the 26 titles
- Fast output: 26 videos since Aug 7, about 18–19 minutes each, with store links in 24 of 26 descriptions
Where the channel points
Links from the channel’s About page and its video descriptions.
- SocialX / Twitterx.com · About page (opens in a new tab)
- Storethomashadley.com24 of the last 26 descriptions (opens in a new tab)
- Affiliateamzn.to1 of the last 26 descriptions (opens in a new tab)
- Affiliateamzn.to1 of the last 26 descriptions (opens in a new tab)
- Storeoldironlibrary.com1 of the last 26 descriptions (opens in a new tab)
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