Description
.32 bore Pistol CZ made in czechoslovakia. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in mid-March 1939 the pistol was folded into the German armed and police forces as the 27.
Construction of the pistol continued in Czechoslovakia until the 1950s. Allegedly, the Czechoslovak military authorities sold five and a half thousand surplus vz. 27s to the Swiss in 1973 for half a million marks.
Between 620,000 and 650,000 were manufactured in total, 452,500 of those under German occupation. In December 1948, a gift of five “ČZ 247” automatic variants of the pistol (based on both the vz. 24 and vz. 27) In 1949, the pistol was exported to 28 countries, including Turkey (3,286 pistols), Great Britain, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, and Pakistan.
