cz75 bd
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I saw one on the EE about a month ago for a decent price. Maybe see if it's still there?
The CZ-75BD is a popular handgun with Mexican Police forces. Guanajuato City uses them and the San Miguel de Allende Police have a large number of them although they also have a large number of Glock 17's 3rd Gen. I was actually there when the San Miguel Police force switched over to the Glock, and took several photos using a crappy Cel phone I had at the time. The Drug War was really gearing up and I strongly recommended to the Chief that he stick with the CZ -- due mainly to the fact that the officers were allowed to carry the CZ with the hammer dropped down to half-#### over a loaded round as the BD was designed to do whereas the Glock was to be carried -- and still is today -- in Condition 3. Anyway, someone high up in the City Administration made it clear that "we're going with the Glock" and that was that. Money talks, and I'm sure in this case it did.
The initial "test" of the new Glocks. A gravel pit outside of town was used -- just out behind the "new" City Hall on the outskirts of town -- and Mexican Officers ran too-and-fro to prepare targets to shoot at.
Later on, many Police Chiefs in Mexico were being killed off, this being around 2008 or so. Our own Chief was threatened and elected to not depend on bodyguards but to just defend himself. He asked me about this and I told him I'd go with the CZ since he already seemed familiar with it and felt comfortable carrying it loaded with the hammer decocked.
This photo is the only one I have of that Police Chief. He survived, by the way, and went on to other things. He is the man in civilian clothes with the sunglasses on his forehead watching the first Glocks being unboxed and shown to a Police Commander. The little midget guy to the Chief's right was the department armourer. He was constantly calling me up to help him "import repair parts" along with the Gun Club's regular supply of primers and powder that always had to be smuggled down. A strange relationship, perhaps, to anyone outside of Mexico but it's the way things got done and still continue to be done today I'm told. I'm just not running it anymore. The Chief would be wearing his CZ-75BD in this photo.
A month or two after this event, the Chief called me up and asked me to come to a meeting he was having with the San Miguel Downtown Businessmen's burearu. I told him I was a member of that group and would normally go to any meetings anyway, I did not need a special invitation. "In this case you do," he told me. "I am only meeting with a couple of them but I want to see you as well." I went to the meeting and he was talking about implementing a new "panic button" that would be installed in businesses that were members of the CANIRAC Restaurant Association for free as a test study to stop people coming in to threaten or extort money from the businesses. A hidden button that when pushed promped a phone call from City Hall. If anything other than the "Cancel Code" was given, a heavily armed Police Group would come calling.
This policy was actually implemented and worked quite well (I had such a Panic Button in my own Ice Cream Store) and as long as that man was Chief, we had no "business extortion" problems, or at least none like what's happening today. As that meeting broke up, the Chief came over and told me quietly that he felt comfortable with the CZ and asked me if I could get him some hollowpoint bullets. I told him I could load him up some Gold Dots and we could test them -- or he could alone -- to make sure they functioned. I remember loading him up 100 9mm Gold Dots (Hollowpoints are illegal in Mexico) at my cost.
I got to shoot the CZ-75 BD several times in Mexico with the San Miguel Police. I liked it. I would get one here if I found one and had the cash freed up. I am only in Canada another 2 years or so and do not think it worth the money or the time to buy "stuff" that I'd never use back in the Mex. However, the BD is a gun that is certainly around down there and would probably convert nicely to .380 Cal so I could register it and get a transport permit for one. Just getting one here and playing with in it 9 for a couple of years and reselling it is not a bad idea, I think. Tempting! Very tempting!
The CZ-75BD is a popular handgun with Mexican Police forces. Guanajuato City uses them and the San Miguel de Allende Police have a large number of them although they also have a large number of Glock 17's 3rd Gen. I was actually there when the San Miguel Police force switched over to the Glock, and took several photos using a crappy Cel phone I had at the time. The Drug War was really gearing up and I strongly recommended to the Chief that he stick with the CZ -- due mainly to the fact that the officers were allowed to carry the CZ with the hammer dropped down to half-#### over a loaded round as the BD was designed to do whereas the Glock was to be carried -- and still is today -- in Condition 3. Anyway, someone high up in the City Administration made it clear that "we're going with the Glock" and that was that. Money talks, and I'm sure in this case it did.
The initial "test" of the new Glocks. A gravel pit outside of town was used -- just out behind the "new" City Hall on the outskirts of town -- and Mexican Officers ran too-and-fro to prepare targets to shoot at.
Later on, many Police Chiefs in Mexico were being killed off, this being around 2008 or so. Our own Chief was threatened and elected to not depend on bodyguards but to just defend himself. He asked me about this and I told him I'd go with the CZ since he already seemed familiar with it and felt comfortable carrying it loaded with the hammer decocked.
This photo is the only one I have of that Police Chief. He survived, by the way, and went on to other things. He is the man in civilian clothes with the sunglasses on his forehead watching the first Glocks being unboxed and shown to a Police Commander. The little midget guy to the Chief's right was the department armourer. He was constantly calling me up to help him "import repair parts" along with the Gun Club's regular supply of primers and powder that always had to be smuggled down. A strange relationship, perhaps, to anyone outside of Mexico but it's the way things got done and still continue to be done today I'm told. I'm just not running it anymore. The Chief would be wearing his CZ-75BD in this photo.
A month or two after this event, the Chief called me up and asked me to come to a meeting he was having with the San Miguel Downtown Businessmen's burearu. I told him I was a member of that group and would normally go to any meetings anyway, I did not need a special invitation. "In this case you do," he told me. "I am only meeting with a couple of them but I want to see you as well." I went to the meeting and he was talking about implementing a new "panic button" that would be installed in businesses that were members of the CANIRAC Restaurant Association for free as a test study to stop people coming in to threaten or extort money from the businesses. A hidden button that when pushed promped a phone call from City Hall. If anything other than the "Cancel Code" was given, a heavily armed Police Group would come calling.
This policy was actually implemented and worked quite well (I had such a Panic Button in my own Ice Cream Store) and as long as that man was Chief, we had no "business extortion" problems, or at least none like what's happening today. As that meeting broke up, the Chief came over and told me quietly that he felt comfortable with the CZ and asked me if I could get him some hollowpoint bullets. I told him I could load him up some Gold Dots and we could test them -- or he could alone -- to make sure they functioned. I remember loading him up 100 9mm Gold Dots (Hollowpoints are illegal in Mexico) at my cost.
I got to shoot the CZ-75 BD several times in Mexico with the San Miguel Police. I liked it. I would get one here if I found one and had the cash freed up. I am only in Canada another 2 years or so and do not think it worth the money or the time to buy "stuff" that I'd never use back in the Mex. However, the BD is a gun that is certainly around down there and would probably convert nicely to .380 Cal so I could register it and get a transport permit for one. Just getting one here and playing with in it 9 for a couple of years and reselling it is not a bad idea, I think. Tempting! Very tempting!
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