^^Sounds like an uninformed CZ rep.
CZ-USA bought DW 10 years ago. My impression is that CZ-USA hasn't tampered with DW's manufacturing. I assume their biggest impact has been on bringing them under the umbrella of CZ-USA's customer service umbrella. It would make little sense for CZUB to start cranking out 1911s; they are already at capacity and easily sell everything they produce. My hope was that CZ would use DW as a foothold to start producing CZ firearms in the US. I recall talk about DW facilities being used to produce the CZ Skorpion EVO; I don't know where that went. The only way to sell the CZ 92 in the US would be to build it here.
CZ is advertizing the CZ 1911 A1 as US-made, and the only facility they have to make it here is DW's. It would make sense to expand the DW share of the 1911 market by selling a model at a much lower, but not cheap, price point, and branding it as a CZ does little to dilute the DW brand. It seems to me that expanding the DW operation to increase CZ's overall capacity makes sense, too. After all, the US is the world's single largest civilian firearms market. They could undoubtedly sell everything they shipped from CZUB, but CZUB is selling everything they make already, and they have a loyal customer base around the world. I recall reading, for example, that CZ has about 50% (or more?) of the sales of rifles to African safari hunters.
Thus, the best way for CZ to expand its market share in the US without walking away from good markets elsewhere would seem to be to start making CZ firearms here. I hope the CZ 1911 A1 is a sign of good things to come. If CZ-USA were wise, though, they'd move DW to a gun-friendly state before any vigorous expansion.
