The SDK was a silenced bolt-action rifle issued to the Gestapo during WW2. It was apparently known as the 'Hitler assassination rifle' and the
ammunition issued were totally unmarked 9x19mm Parabellum rounds that supposedly held cyanide within the soft lead bullet. The silencer is one of the
most novel and supposedly is very quiet. With the bolt action allowing little gas leak, It somewhat sounds like a billiard ball hitting soft dirt.
According to Atwood, the weapons were made in 1939, at the direction of the chief of Berlin Police, Graf von Helldorf, who was executed in 1944 for
his role in the Hitler assassination plot. At the time of writing of this article, the weapon was still in the hands of the Army officer who acquired
it in Berlin shortly after the war's end. Supposedly, its location was unknown.
Back in the late 1970s, the SDK was in several collector magazines claiming only a few of these rifles exist today
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. I wonder what kind of range and accuracy it had. S&F
