Vz. 27
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The vz. 27 is a Czech semi-automatic pistol, based on the vz. 24, and chambered for 7.65 Browning / .32 ACP. It is often and incorrectly known as the CZ 27, after the naming scheme used by the Ceska Zbrojovka factory for post-WW2 commercial products. However, it is correctly known as vz. 27, an abbreviation of the Czech "vzor 27", or "Model 27".
After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 the pistol was folded into the German armed and police forces as the P27. Construction of the pistol continued in Czechoslovakia until the 1950s. Allegedly, the Czech military sold five and a half thousand surplus vz. 27s to the Swiss in 1973 for half a million marks.
