Kimber Solo Nine: Tiny Titan of Self-Defense

June 29, 2011 By Ashley Dale

Peter Kokalis has tested Kimber's new pocket pistol for the 8.1 issue of SGN, and some things about it he loved, others not so much. Whet your appetite for his story with some Kokalis photographs.

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