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Springfield Armory P9 P-9 CZ 75 Hi-Power P35 Listing ID: 2952795
Description
High gloss blued finish like a browning. Wood grips like a Hi-Power. It’s old world craftsmanship and it’s beautiful.
Back in the 1990s, the Czech CZ75 pistol was being rapidly understood to be one of the best combat handguns of the 20th Century. The thing is, since these guns were made behind the Iron Curtain, they were hard to get in the land of Apple Pie. Well, that's where Springfield came up with an idea crazy enough that it just might work.
Czech, by way of Italy
The Czech designed CZ-75 was, as noted above, next to impossible to get in the US during the Cold War. However, the Italian firm of Tanfoglio made a nearly perfect clone of the CZ since the 1980s. Incidentally, the "G" in Tanfoglio is silent, leaving it pronounced as "Tan-fol-io". The Italian made gun was marketed as the TZ-75 (very original!). The original TZ-75 was externally quite different in appearance from the CZ-75, with a sleeker shape, more ergonomic grip, squared trigger guard, and a larger spur-type hammer. The sights were also of the three-dot type, and larger than the tiny sights used on the CZ-75 of the time. The TZ-75 also added a slide-mounted safety/decocker, the option of ambidextrous controls. Internally, it had a slide-mounted safety added. The TZ was a beauty of milled steel engineering, with no polymer or plastics involved.
Back in the 1990s, the Czech CZ75 pistol was being rapidly understood to be one of the best combat handguns of the 20th Century. The thing is, since these guns were made behind the Iron Curtain, they were hard to get in the land of Apple Pie. Well, that's where Springfield came up with an idea crazy enough that it just might work.
Czech, by way of Italy
The Czech designed CZ-75 was, as noted above, next to impossible to get in the US during the Cold War. However, the Italian firm of Tanfoglio made a nearly perfect clone of the CZ since the 1980s. Incidentally, the "G" in Tanfoglio is silent, leaving it pronounced as "Tan-fol-io". The Italian made gun was marketed as the TZ-75 (very original!). The original TZ-75 was externally quite different in appearance from the CZ-75, with a sleeker shape, more ergonomic grip, squared trigger guard, and a larger spur-type hammer. The sights were also of the three-dot type, and larger than the tiny sights used on the CZ-75 of the time. The TZ-75 also added a slide-mounted safety/decocker, the option of ambidextrous controls. Internally, it had a slide-mounted safety added. The TZ was a beauty of milled steel engineering, with no polymer or plastics involved.
- Caliber
- Manufacturer
- 9mm Luger
- Springfield
- Individual