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Tom Gresham here.

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866, 825, 5486. And we're open lines right now. We may have a guest joining us in a little bit, but

until then, let's just talk about the things that you would like to talk about. Now, if there's a gun in your future,

maybe you think about buying a gun either for yourself or for somebody else for the holidays for Christmas.

Love to know about that.

At what age do you think it's okay to give a youngster a gun? How old were you when you got your first gun?

866 Talk guns? Line 3, Doug's with us out of Medford, Oregon. Hello Doug, how are you?

Oh, just fine, Tom. On my MP9, I'm trying to change the backstrap like you were mentioning.

It's a brand new one and it came with the large one. So I read the

directions. It says on that tool on the bottom, turn or a quarter turn and pull down.

Which I did, but it won't pull out.

It's pretty darn stiff the first time.

You know what you may want to do? I don't like to use a pair of pliers on a gun, but in this case you may want to get

your pair of pliers and then put some kind of a leather pad or something between the

jaw so you're not marring it.

And when you turn that thing down then you can get a good purchase on it.

The problem is you really can't get a whole of that thing with your fingers.

And if you could get a pair of pliers on there, I think you could pull that out.

I had it off once for the first time I cleaned it.

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