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SDC · July 26, 2013, 05:53 AM

Actually, the Russians had this "silent cartridge" technology a long time before the QSPR; in the mid-1950s, Stechkin had designed the TKB-506 and TKB-506A "cigarette-case guns", chambered for an earlier 7.62x35mm SP-2 cartridge, which looks like a stretched 7.62 Tokarev cartridge.

July 26, 2013, 05:53 AM	#18
SDC Senior Member Join Date: January 23, 2001 Location: People's Republic of Kanada Posts: 1,652	Actually, the Russians had this "silent cartridge" technology a long time before the QSPR; in the mid-1950s, Stechkin had designed the TKB-506 and TKB-506A "cigarette-case guns", chambered for an earlier 7.62x35mm SP-2 cartridge, which looks like a stretched 7.62 Tokarev cartridge. __________________ Gun control in Canada: making the streets safer for rapists, muggers, and other violent criminals since 1936.