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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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CZ 24/26 Dummy Gun
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Item Number: CZDISP001
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CZ 24/26 "Sub Machine Gun" DUMMY/ DISPLAY GUN
(Cannot be converted into a firing gun)
Non firing replica created from many original surplus parts. This display gun cannot be converted into a real firing gun. There are few internal parts. This is strictly created as a display non-firing sub machine gun.
Soon after the end of WW2 the Czechoslovak army began the search for a new submachine gun for both infantry and non-infantry use. After much testing, a prototype Cz-447 (4th model, 1947)was selected for further development. It was designed by J. Holecek at arms factory in the city Uhersky Brod (now it is a famous CZ-UB arms factory). In mid-1948 the improved
weapons were adopted by Czechoslovak army as "9 mm SamopalVz. 48a" (with a solid wooden stock; Samopal stands for "submachine gun" and Vz. stands for Vzor, or "model of") and "9 mm Samopal Vz. 48b" (with a folding stock). Production of new weapons commenced at CZ-UB in 1949, and early in 1950 both versions were renamed to Sa 23 (Samopal23, fixed but version) and Sa 25 (folding butt version). Later this year Czechoslovak army decided to retire both weapons, because, under pressure fromSoviet Union, it switched from 9x19 Luger pistol ammunition to 7,62x25 TT pistol ammunition. Basic weapons were quickly redesigned to fire "new" round,and were subsequently adopted in 1951 as Sa 24 (solid butt) and Sa 26 (folding butt). Most of 9mm Sa 23 and Sa 25 submachine
guns were either passed down to local militia or sold for export as surplus; many of these guns later surfaced in countries like
Cuba, Chile, Cambodia, Libya, Lebanon, South Africa and others. The service of 7,62mm versions was somewhat longer.
This Display Gun Cannot Be converted into a firing gun! |
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