SMITH & WESSON MODEL 952 Description
9mm Para. cal., 5 in. match grade black finish stainless steel barrel, titanium coated spherical barrel bushing, 9 round mag., loaded chamber indicator, dovetail post front and adj. Wilson rear sight, carbon steel frame and slide, two-piece wood grip panels w/alloy backstrap, slide mounted decocking lever, marked "Performance Center 952" with small "mm" in the curl of the 9, Performance Center case, 200 mfg., 41 oz. Distributed by Bangers, 2000.
After completing the 400 guns for Bangers, the Performance Center introduced the Model 952 as a standard production handgun with the product code 170220, serial number range KAZ0404 TO KAZ0459 . The dash one was added to the model number at serial number KAZ0461 and continued to KAZ1734 until 2003 for a total production of 1735 blue Model 952s of all variations.