KGB & Politburo « Assassination Pistol » – PSM Model

[bruno38]

KGB & Politburo « Assassination Pistol » – PSM Model

Very seldom seen
How many in Canada ?
Anyone in this forum owning one?

Recently obtained from a dealer's estate
Comes with 2 magazines, appears unfired
A keeper...

Pistolet Samozaryadny Malogabaritny,
Russian for "compact self-loading pistol"

Made by Izhevsk in 1984
5.45 x 18 mm cal. (centerfire)

Ref: http://www.enemyforces.net/firearms/psm.htm

Other most interesting input, dated 2007, by so-called "Gunfighterholsters" in
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250646 - check input #7
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"I had one of these Military PSM pistols. I received it as a gift in 1990 when escorting a Soviet Admiral throughout the East Coast of the USA on a "Good Will" visit under the first Bush Administration. Five standard blued PSM's were presented to the 3 US Security Agents working the detail for the Admiral, 1 engraved PSM was presented to a 4 star admiral, and the last was supposedly resented to the Secretary of Defense.

Mine was brand new with alluminum one piece grips. It was about half the width of a PPK pistol, with the only safety being mounted on the back of the slide. It came with 500 rounds of AP ammo, a brown military style hip holster, cleaning rod and Russian manual, that felt like it was printed on US Govt issue toilet paper. I never fired it. I kept it unti 2000 when a Machine Gun Collector offered me $3800 for it. It was never properly imported into the USA, but when I formally asked a friend in BATF, he said that there was really nothing that could be done to the owner of a PSM once it was in the USA. The ammo is not considered AP since it is actually smaller than .22 caliber. 5.45 is smaller than that legally listed as AP.

A buddy in the US Secret Service has two of these pistols. He has fired one extensively. The first rounds will definitely go through soft armor up to Level 11, but not much higher. I still have about 1-200 rounds of this I have sold to collectors for $7-$8 buck a round. Lower prices to shooters. I have seen different rounds go for $10 or so to advanced collectors. I have reloading data from my White House friend, and he has a German Walther PPk that was converted to 5.45x18mm and he fires that one also with reloaded 5.45x18mm ammo using Vihta Vourhi powder and 22 Remington Jet bullets. I think a military PSM sold at auction a couple years ago with all accessories and letter from US Secret Service big wig for $6000. I sold spare mags and spare magazines to collectors for $195 per mag and $50-$75 for manuals. I may still have some military shoulder holsters for them also....but would have to look.

I liked the PSM, it had very light recoil. It was not particularly loud when compared to a Walther TPH in .22 or Walther PPKs in .22 lr. It is extremely flat, and relatively accurately. I would estimate that only a few are in the USA in the hands of former Federal Agents. Harrison Carroll, a west Coat USA dealer had one back in 1993-4 for the high $3000 range with no ammo.

Neat gun if you have the money. They are not made anymore. A buddy in Iraq recovered a silenced one from a Jihadi. He said the silencer was 1'x7" long and it sounded like a pellet pistol and could penetrate a soft kevlar vest - probably level 2a by old NIJ standards...

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Other ref: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?218699-MAKAROV-Noooo-Soviet-PSM-5x45x18-Micro-Pistol

Pictures of my PSM

 

[gdawg]

Interesting.

Here is another creation in the same vein.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/12/18/kgb-ultra-silent-pistols-still-in-active-use/

 

[bruno38]

mags

As regards magazines (likely always electro pencilled, in this case by two individuals), one is SN matching (#2183-2), but not the other (#1680-2)

 

[claw808]

This pistol is listed in the 1995 International Firearms Company as the soviet PSM model 1974 with leather holster for $595.95. At the time I was considering getting it but decided not to the difficulty of obtaining the odd calibre.

 

[bruno38]

This pistol is listed in the 1995 International Firearms Company as the soviet PSM model 1974 with leather holster for $595.95. At the time I was considering getting it but decided not to the difficulty of obtaining the odd calibre.

Well, that was good old time
Here's what firearms were priced 20 years ago... Check at 8:38 minutes in the following ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKTjK8LXY2o

A rare thing already...

 

[TeaPot2]

...They are not made anymore....

Still listed on the manufacturer website as available for ordering ht tp://www.imzcorp.com/en/company/267.html ...next to impossible to import due to the economic sanctions against Russia and being prohib in Canada

 

[gunzik]

This pistol is listed in the 1995 International Firearms Company as the soviet PSM model 1974 with leather holster for $595.95. At the time I was considering getting it but decided not to the difficulty of obtaining the odd calibre.

In 1995, the last year you could buy this pistol, the deceased former owner probably paid $600 for it. That helps.

In 1995 the average price of gold was $380 an ounce, the average house price was $95,000 ... Now, these are somewhere between 3 and 4 times that. I paid $150 for my new-in-the-box S&W model 13 about then. It was a great deal, admittedly. Even that revolver has more than doubled, and no, I would never sell it. If I owned this one, I'd probably never sell it either.

I have never seen one before. I have looked at a lot of handguns, for more years than I care to count. I have owned some unique pieces, some very rare pistols, and I know a lot of 12(6) holders, who, between them, own or have owned tens of thousands of prohibs. Nobody I know has ever had one of these. Nobody.

A rare and unique find for the right collector. A good gunsmith could probably make this pistol over to a non-prohib wildcat .22 for the wrong collector ... one with no 12(6). If you can build these from 22 Hornet brass (turn down the rim) ... I might just take up reloading.

What a slick little pistol!