It is often designated the CZ 27 after the naming scheme used by the Česká zbrojovka factory for post-World War II commercial products.

One notable example was confiscated from a German guard in Colditz by the 'Medium Sized Man' (Flt.

Lt. Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM KSG) the day it was liberated.Construction of the pistol continued in Czechoslovakia until the 1950s.

Allegedly, the Czechoslovak military authorities sold five and a half thousand surplus vz.

In December 1948, a gift of five "ČZ 247" automatic variants of the pistol (based on both the vz.