CZ+75+GI
The CZ-75 pistol came about because the Czechs were trying to do the right thing.
Working within the Warsaw Pact, they were using their experience as firearms designers and manufacturers to make what the Soviet system wanted. Alas, what the Russians wanted (which was what really mattered) were clones of their issue firearms, the AK-47 and Makarov. The Czechs couldn’t earn hard currency selling the same firearms the Russians were giving away, so they had to make different, market-desired firearms.
And that’s how the world got a high-capacity, double-stack 9mm pistol with a traditional double-action trigger ... and the world’s sexiest grip.
No, really; the grip of the CZ-75 (first offered in that year, of course) was so ergonomic that no less than Jeff Cooper—of Gunsite and the 1911—liked it. He liked it enough to encourage the design and
