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05/13/2025

Tom McHale

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You know it's going to be a good week when your favorite FFL dealer has to do extra paperwork when you go to pick up guns. I guess the ATF wants to know, and for your local law enforcement agency to know, that you're picking up three or more firearms.

In my business, that's kind of hilarious as it's not at all an uncommon event with all the back and forth of evaluation and test guns. But this week, the number was six! I'm looking forward to getting my hands on these (Smith & Wesson CSX E Series (2 sizes), Palmetto State Armory Rock 5.7mm, Palmetto State Armory Dagger 9mm, Kimber CDS9, Walther PPK (threaded, .32 ACP) and heading to the range. Any of those strike your fancy? Or not?

I'll share my results here over the coming weeks, but you can also get the scoop on how they fared over at American Handgunner Insider on YouTube. I'll be sure to get the videos up weekly.

Til next week. As always, feel free to reply to any of my emails with questions, comments, suggestions, etc.

Tom

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