Welcome to immediately’s Photo of the Day! Here we’ve got a extremely cool replica of a World War Two spy gun. This is (purported to be) an OSS Hi-Standard integrally stunned 22lr pistol. This pistol was truly manufactured or no less than distributed by Arms Tech LTD. The OSS Hi-Standard has lengthy been an identifiable silhouette whether or not you see it in a guide, film, or these days a online game. Back within the day, the Hi-Standard 22 pistols had been recognized for his or her reliability and nice accuracy. Mix these two issues with its straight blowback design and a suppressor and you’ll get a really quiet spy gun with the fitting ammunition. These pistols used the prevailing Model HD goal pistol design however had been dubbed a reputation of their very own, the HDM.
“Distributed by Arms Tech of Phoenix, Arizona as a faithful reproduction of the U.S. Property HDM suppressed pistol used by OSS agents, and perhaps most famously by CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers, who had one in his possession when he was captured after his U2 spy plane was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union in 1960. The pistol features a perforated barrel with threads and a spring detent at the back for the attached Arms Tech suppressor (numbered to the gun), with a fixed blade front sight, adjustable notch rear sight, standard frame and slide markings, and checkered grips. The pistol and suppressor include a Brooks & Thomas case with two extra magazines, 1 box (50 rounds) of Aguila .22-SSS (Sniper SubSonic), 1 box (50 rounds) of Peters .22 High Velocity, and partial (91 rounds) plastic case of Remington .22 LR ammunition.”
Lot 3413: Arms Tech Oss Hi Standard Pistol with Suppressor and Case. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved March 8, 2023, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/73/3413/arms-tech-oss-hi-standard-pistol-with-suppressor-and-case.
