A rule of economics was buy, sell for more, profit.


Take a Soviet pistol, cheap, small, cheap, somewhat durable, easy to clean, and did we mention cheap? Problem was the poor performance and increasing rarity of the rounds. Circe's solution to this? Modification my friend, modification.


First step was to rechamber it. Smith and Wesson rounds are better, stronger, popular. So she'd use those and have to swap out the chamber and then the barrel. It only took Circe a few hours to pull it off too.


Then there was the matter of the magazines. As is, the things were only good for 8 shots, and now none for the same size with the little bit bigger American bullets. How would Circe address this? You guessed it! Modification. Salvage the old and make a new magazine for it wasn't that hard at all for the Fairest.


Now it had more stopping power than the original. The balance was an issue though, it was back heavy. The solution to that was accessories. Circe just found a suppressor that was a good weight to balance it and noted the details. It solved the problem by promoting a double purchase.


But just for more fun to make it a higher end purchase, she'd replace the old fake wood grip with a less slip rubber. And why not a little reflex sight too? The answer to that was because old materials are a pain to remove, even if the sight was easy to just bolt and screw into place. It took over an hour instead of being quick like she thought it'd be. Screw the reflex sight? Yes, that is what Circe did to attach it, easy pleasy.


The end result? Well, in a videogame it'd probably be one of those rare drops found in a shooter game. The primary selling point for buyers was the option of disabling the automatic reload that came from rechambering, manually pulling it back instead to minimize noise. For sellers, like Leon whom she showed it too, was that buying it without buying the correct suppressor was buyer beware. The markup on selling covered the gun and the parts used to upgrade just fine, good potential for their organization to profit.


Except Leon was getting it from Circe. He was wary of her asking to borrow a machinegun or something worse. He wasn't sure what, but he'd not be shocked if she did ask for something worse. Not that the man wouldn't be selling the gun.

ooc no addition to her inventory as Circe as just buying and selling it to her fellow gun runners.