June 16, 2021
By Steve Gash
The company now known as CZ was originally Ceska Zbrojovka, or “Czech Weapons Factory.” It was founded in 1936 in the city of Uhersky Brod in what was then Czechoslovakia. This city was chosen for the country’s arms manufacturing plant because it was far away from the German border and Hitler’s bombers, but in 1938–1939, Germany seized control of Czechoslovakia.
CZ guns have been available in the United States since 1991 and are now imported by CZ-USA, which is headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. CZ offers a wide array of centerfire rifles; over-under, side-by-side, and autoloading shotguns; centerfire semiautomatic pistols;...
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