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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
Cz
Or Česká zbrojovka as they say.
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It is a Hungarian made FČG P9R.
P = Pisztoly = pistol
9 = 9mm Parabellum
R = Rendőr = Police.
It was a government issue sidearm for the Police.
A bit of history: FEG - Fegyver- és Gépgyártó Részvénytársaság - Firearms and machinery Corp. produced an exact duplicate of the Browning High-power without their permission. Upon getting the cease and desist order from Browning, FEG made some modifications to the action (double & single action), added a safety / decocker, and continued to produce the spoon with no further lawsuit threats from Browning.
A bit of personal history: my father was a professor at a Hungarian boarding school during the height of the communist regime. He was also studying to be a man of the cloth. Before each meal, my father would stop and pray with his students. He was advised not to continue that practice. He refused, and was arrested not once, but twice. Upon his second release, he was stripped of his teaching certificate and forced to work at FEG, producing firearms for the Hungarian and Russian soldiers and police.
But that didn’t stop my father. He completed his theology degree and became an ordained minister, and continued preaching into his late 90’s. He passed his 100th birthday this past March 9th, and left the shackles of this earth less than a month later. Even this past February, he was still giving short prayers before meals for the residents in his nursing home a couple of miles from me. He didn’t let the communists win....
(Yes - I miss him dearly...)