dakota.potts
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APEX lists these PM63 parts kits going for a pretty decent price, right around $100, here
http://www.apexgunparts.com/review/product/list/id/5142/category/60/
There are also barrels available, at a somewhat steep price.
The problem is the bolt.
The PM63 is a Polish submachine gun chambered in 9mm Makarov. It feeds from 15 and 25 round magazines in the grip of the gun and is a select-fire, open-bolt mechanism. Obviously, this is an issue. The ATF considers anything open bolt to essentially be a machine gun as it is too easy to convert into a machine gun. I disagree, but it is what it is for now.
There is a pretty long thread over on AKFiles with some discussion on various things about restoring them. The bolt is pretty much the last major hurdle it seems. The bolt is pretty much attached to the slide and rides with it during travel. It has a fixed firing pin. The general consensus right now is that the fixed firing pin can be drilled out and replaced with a longer, spring-loaded firing pin that's fired by a striker or linear hammer system. The biggest difficulty is in the fire control group, since the slide is so small and has such little space to operate. A member on Weapons Guild has a somewhat functioning prototype using a modified fire control group from an equally obscure firearm, the CZ 26. His puts the trigger at the very rear of the gun, behind the bolt. It is firing, but right now he's got the trigger there instead of in the grip frame so he has to work up a trigger linkage.
A company called Pioneer Arms is importing them in their semi-automatic form, and they have this 3D CAD drawing of their mechanism. However, I'm not really sure what to take from it.
Anybody have any ideas on what it would take to get one of these guys running legally?
http://www.apexgunparts.com/review/product/list/id/5142/category/60/
There are also barrels available, at a somewhat steep price.
The problem is the bolt.
The PM63 is a Polish submachine gun chambered in 9mm Makarov. It feeds from 15 and 25 round magazines in the grip of the gun and is a select-fire, open-bolt mechanism. Obviously, this is an issue. The ATF considers anything open bolt to essentially be a machine gun as it is too easy to convert into a machine gun. I disagree, but it is what it is for now.
There is a pretty long thread over on AKFiles with some discussion on various things about restoring them. The bolt is pretty much the last major hurdle it seems. The bolt is pretty much attached to the slide and rides with it during travel. It has a fixed firing pin. The general consensus right now is that the fixed firing pin can be drilled out and replaced with a longer, spring-loaded firing pin that's fired by a striker or linear hammer system. The biggest difficulty is in the fire control group, since the slide is so small and has such little space to operate. A member on Weapons Guild has a somewhat functioning prototype using a modified fire control group from an equally obscure firearm, the CZ 26. His puts the trigger at the very rear of the gun, behind the bolt. It is firing, but right now he's got the trigger there instead of in the grip frame so he has to work up a trigger linkage.
A company called Pioneer Arms is importing them in their semi-automatic form, and they have this 3D CAD drawing of their mechanism. However, I'm not really sure what to take from it.
Anybody have any ideas on what it would take to get one of these guys running legally?