2nd Amendment and Right to Bear Arms/Zastava CZ99/CZ999/ZDA

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Expert: - 8/27/2007


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Hi Dean,

Read on TGZ about your evaluation story of an early all steel CZ99, and curious about the problems you had with it, and your thoughts concerning the relabeled ones sold today, namely the Charles Daly ZDA and EAA EZ, both nothing more than relabeled alloy CZ999's.

Thanks a lot,
Jon

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Hi, Jon...

The issues I had with the CZ99… the naming and the graphic were clearly intended to confuse the unwary (at the time the Zastava product debuted through TD Arms, CeeZEd products were still unimportable)… were quickly corrected.

Now, in their Charles Daly iteration, I think they are probably fully refined, as long as Michael Kassner has resisted the urge to "glop them up" with accessories. Can't tell since I haven't taken a close look at them in awhile.  

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Dean Speir

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I can answer questions about Handguns, Rifles, Ammunition, the Firearms Industry, the "gunzine game," practical accessories for self-defense (CCW) handguns; rumor control on firearms myths, errata on the "gunshop grapevine."

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25 years practical and competitive hangunning; 26 years in the firearms industry; 15 years writing for the gunzines, including 4½ years as Industry Editor for The New Gun Week; maintainer of www.thegunzone.com.

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Guns Magazine, Combat Handguns, Petersen's Handguns, American Handgunner, The New Gun Week, Gun & Shooter, American Handgunner, Shooting Industry, American Firearms Industry, Machine Gun News, Practical Shooting International, Law Enforcement Techology, Police Product News, The American Guardian, The Shotgun News, Visier (Germany) and various DBI Books.

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BA in English Graduate Lethal Force Institute Graduate Gunsite Graduate Defensive Training Institute

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