IZHMEKH probably made one or two prototypes, which is where the pictures of this thing come from. 357 Magnum cartridge is in heavy use (besides the French GIGN and them being the one anti-terror outfit who are too cool for school and still use the. So that probably killed production of it, because the United States is really the only place where the. According to Maxim Popenker's page on this gun, the two of them signed an agreement in the 1990s banning the export of Russian pistols to America. 357 would be a dream gun for me.ĭid it never enter production for some reason?īilly Boy Clinton and Boris 'Vodka' Yeltsin apparently prevented this gun from reaching U.S. I really wish this thing would get resurrected by some company in the States.