03 Czechoslovak service pistol 24 model calibre 9 mm Browning short

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Experience with the quality of the Model 22 army pistols, produced in the Czechoslovak State Arms Factory in Brno, convinced the Armaments Department that Ceska zbrojovka in Strakonice would be a more suitable manufacturer, as they were able to master the production of the CZ Model 22 pocket pistol with 100% interchangeability of parts. Under the management of Ing. A. P. Zaljubovsky (1859–1936), the Strakonice plant reconstructed the original Model 22 and the resulting significantly different pistol was introduced into the armaments of the Czechoslovak Army as the Model 24, and was also used by the gendarmerie. Although the design underwent a number of changes, it had the same breech-locking system as its predecessor, although the cartridges did not require it.

The manufacturing of the Model 24 army pistol continued in Strakonice between 1925 and 1932 and then between 1937 and 1938, and a small quantity was completed by the factory in 1946. Total production reached almost 197,000 pistols, of which 10,756 were purchased by the gendarmerie in the interwar period.