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PSS: Russia's Silent Captive-Piston Handgun (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-12-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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FrugelViewer
A question and a thought/idea. What is the chamber pressure? It would be interesting to attach a really goo suppressor to one of these and see what that combined with the piston case produces for sound.
Forgotten Weapons
Yeah, the pistol is just a pistol, but each round of ammo would be an NFA suppressor in the US.
David T Klein
But can that Mangione kid get those super-sneaky mostly-silent bullets for one of these ?
Thomas Batha
You are exactly right-- A PPK (for instance) with a suppressor can would be about double the overall length.
AnotherPatreonUser
I assume the most significant thing in its favour is its relatively short overall length. I'm not that knowledgeable about suppressors, but I'd imagine even a 22lr pistol with even the shortest (effective) suppressor would be notably longer than the PSS. I'd guess for its primary use as an assassin's close range tool, the problems of logistics (the unique ammunition) and the poor handling would be less of a concern. Eh, but my guesses are worth about as much as you imagine they are! 😄
Baron Engel
Ian a what-if question. If you were able to import a PSS into the United States would the pistol fall under the NFA regulation? Itself doesn't have a suppressor? Instead would the ammunition require a tax stamp for each live cartridge since it's the source of the suppressing the sound of firing?
Guido Schriewer
hey wait a second! what about the rest of that russian girl of that add? compared to a normal makarov with added can.... why.
Trevor Kruwel
It's obviously still made or available in some quantities around Russia. I've seen pictures of several Ukranian/Russian reconnaissance and sabotage groups carrying them
Kenneth Marshall
Radium paint would still be radioactive - it has a 1600 year half life, but is so multi-spectral I energy it destroys a phosphors ability to glow over time but the radium remains. It likely is an H3 tritium based paint like zinc sulfide and tritium mixed with paint which will glow - not as nicely as a glass ampule filled with tritium like Trijicon.
GaryG
That’s super kewl. I’d suppose getting ammo to actual shoot one of these that one might find in the wild would be another magic trick. Another gyrojet. Lol.
