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Ed Galvan is a gunsmith, armorer and founder of Redwood Empire Armory. Ed's desire to offer his gunsmithing services to California law enforcement agencies and security companies is fueled by his professional career for a major metropolitan police department for over twenty years as well as his experience as lead departmental armorer and firearms instructor. Ed is also a Superior court qualified expert witness in matters relating to firearms.


Ed has hundreds of hours of formal gunsmithing and certified factory armorer training. Many of those hours include advanced training at California’s Lassen College in it's nationally recognized gunsmithing program. He has been trained by preeminent experts in the field to include: Robert “Bob” Chavez, Martin Scott, Dean Caputo and Ken Elmore.

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