The company was founded by Michael Brunn and Jacob Kravel and is owned by Point Lookout Capital Partners. Discovery of the use of tear gas produced by the US company in various police actions against demonstrations around the world was met with controversy in the social media discussions related to events of the
Arab Spring. In February 2012, the online activist group
Anonymous claimed to have hacked the company's website in retaliation for the company's supply of protest suppression weapons to various countries. On November 25, 2019, MarketWatch, Inc. reported that the Carlyle fund holding Combined Systems’ stock has been closed, and its assets sold off. ==References==