Charles Daly ZDA 9mm Pistol

The name Charles Daly has been around since the 1870s when Charles Daly himself, along with two partners in a New York sporting goods business, began importing quality firearms from Prussia and Germany. They chose Daly's name as the brand for these firearms because, of the three partners' names, Daly's had the most appealing sound for a brand name.

Through the years the company has been passed along to various owners, all who have continued with Charles Daly's original desire to import quality firearms to the US. Charles Daly guns have been made by the likes of Beretta and Bernardelli of Italy, Miroku of Japan and Gabri of Spain, to name a few. Today the Charles Daly trademark is owned by KBI Inc. of Harrisburg, PA, who continues the tradition of selling quality imported firearms.

I was curious then, to see how well KBI did this year when they chose a pistol from the Serbian manufacturer, Zastava Arms, as the next new import on which to put the Charles Daly name.

Zastava itself has a heritage that goes back more than 150 years, where in the town of Kragujevac, Serbia a factory then named Gunfoundry cast its first six front loading bronze cannons with the Serbian coat of arms on the barrels. The town of Kragujevac has even a longer lineage of gunsmiths and gun makers that through world wars, regime changes, crisis and revolution, have held true to a reputation of making quality weapons for military and civilian alike. They are still going strong today in Kragujevac under the name of Zastava Arms.

For more information on Zastava, you can visit their website:
www.zastava-arms.co.yu
Specifications -
Caliber: 9mm Parabellum
Action: recoil operated semi-automatic
Length: 7.75 in
Width: 1.5 in (includes decocking levers)
Height: 5.625 in (to the top of the rear sight)
Magazine Capacity: 15 rounds
Barrel Length: 4.25 in
Rifling: 6-grooves, RH twist
Trigger: double-action
Sights: White 3-dot, drift adjustable front and rear
Weight without magazine: 30 oz
Weight with empty magazine: 33.1 oz
Weight loaded (1+15 rd magazine): 39.7 oz

Features -
Hard chrome plated forged barrel.
High capacity 15-round magazine.
Ambidextrous frame mounted decocking lever.
Loaded chamber indicator.
Unique low shot indicator.