Actually, I bought a 5" and a 6" 952, 952-2 models in stainless.

The PPC-9 has lost some utility here in NYS since we are now limited to 10-round magazines. I was never a PPC competitor, and the Aristocrat rear sight was only sighted-in for 25 yards. I doubt the PPC-9 has 50 rounds thru it before becoming a safe-queen, since I always shot the one I sold. Haven't even tried it with the new 10-round mags, but the originals are in safe hands outside NYS...as I recall, they were marked LEO, but not sure, and are in sealed mylar bags with a relative.

But, I'm a sucker (or, should say was) for Performance Center guns, from the era when Tom Campbell was in charge...I've had two work-related tours of the Springfield facility, and Tom personally showed me a PPC-9, and had my order for two before I left, after a free lunch in the exec. cafeteria.

Both "free" factory tours ended-up being personally very costly, and then my agency decided to order 2,000 Glock 19s instead of Smiths...