ČZ vz. 27
semi-automatic pistol
The vz. 27 is a Czechoslovak semi-automatic pistol, based on the pistole vz. 24, and chambered for 7.65 mm Browning/.32 ACP. It is often designated the CZ 27 after the naming scheme used by the Česká zbrojovka factory for post-World War II commercial products. However, it is correctly known as vz. 27, an abbreviation of the Czech "vzor 27", or "Model 27". Pistols either captured or produced during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia were designated as the Pistole 27(t).
Background
During the early 1920s, Czechoslovakia adopted the Pistole vz. 22 chambered for the .380 ACP cartridge to replace the large variety of handguns inherited following the country independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918. While it was an adequate design, it used a locking system which serves no purpose on pistols chambered for low-power rounds such as the .380 ACP. The reason it was there was that the pistol was originally designed to fire 9×19mm Parabellum rounds, but after trials the Czechoslovak Army decided to adopt a pistol chambered for a smaller cartridge. It was easier to just change the chambering than redesign the pistol into a blowback.
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