I have lately become extremely fascinated with the CZ-75BD Police. I know, I know, it's old technology and can't even be carried cocked and locked, so boring, so dull.
San Miguel de Allende Police carried them for years before switching to the Glock 17 (because some money was paid by Glock to the Mayor and the Police Chief I was told) -- but when the Police Chief was actually threatened by the Cartel, he called me up and asked me "what would you carry in my shoes?"
I told him I'd take the CZ hands down, and that I'd seen several Glock "light strikes" with the hard primers in Tecnos (Aguila) 9mm ammo. The CZ probably wouldn't get light strikes and even if it did, you have instant double-strike capability. Anyway, I told him, I'd load him up some 124 grain Gold Dots at around 1,150 fps and that should do the trick. I was getting 1,130 out of them out of my 4-inch Model 3904, I never chronoed them out of the Chief's CZ. Anyway, he carried that CZ until the threat went away in a CZ Kydex hip holster I had laying around and seemed quite happy with it. He carried it chamber-loaded with the hammer-dropped by the decocker which on the CZ-75BD leaves the hammer "half-cocked".
It's funny, but at the time, I absolutely had no real desire for one of those. But lately, old memories come up and I think it would be a cool gun to have. Guanajauto City Police and Salamanca Police also are using some CZ-75BD Police models, and I think Guanajuato State Police has some along with the Beretta 92FS.
So I no it's not plastic-fantastic, but if I get a new handgun in a semi-auto 9 (here or in Mexico) I'm really salivating over a CZ-75BD POLICE. (The version marked POLICE has features the regular CZ-75BD does not have. Checkered front and backstrap, and a lanyard loop, are two that come to mind, there might be one or two more.
