if god made a gun: the fk brno 7.5 (um...that's $7.5K) in 10.8mm

Reviewers are writing about the BRNO as though it's God's personal gift to the sport, and I have to confer, I suspect it might be. With it's clear CZ DNA and that Blade Runner profile, I gotta say it's spectacular to look at...which is all I can do, because God also knows I can't afford one at $7.5k. I'm the AFD writer who has zero interest in plastic or modern military weaponry, I'm the cantankerous old-schooler who likes blued steel semi-autos, single-action revolvers and mechanically cycled rifles and shotguns made of sterner stuff than black polymer (aka plastic). Call me old fashioned, I like to reminisce about my misspent youth roaming the hills with gun in hand keeping the pot filled for a family of six 'cos our pappy died when we were all minnows and left five hungry boys and a widow. We watched westerns on TV and played cowboys and injuns in the field out back with bicycles (or cows when could catch one) for horses. We were taught gun safety and marksmanship by a WWII veteran friend of the family and I still remember him spitting at the mention of those M16's the poor Vietnam fella's were having to deal with. He showed us how to shoot a pistol single handed ("just in case your other hand is blowed off", he said) until we could hit a soup can at 50 yards, every time. I never knew such things as youth guns existed, he had me shooting barn pigeons at 12 years old with a 12 gauge! There was no need for weight reduction, real men had carried 20lbs of steel into battle since the vikings and our mentor had himself lugged a 12lb Tommy across the Normandy beaches into occupied France. So you can see, my roots are firmly bedded in forged American steel and the remembrance of brave hard-working men who were built like brick sh*thouses without ever having seen the inside of a gym. To them a 1911 was the CCW of the day and that ethos rubbed off on me and stuck. So when I see the BRNO I'm reminded of my youth 'cos this looks like a real man's firearm, all blued steel, lightweight at 2.9lbs, SA only, slimline as a Colt and complete with an elephant-hide holster (of course). In all honesty I think we need to be preserving the few elephants China hasn't killed for ivory, so cow or buffalo would work just fine for a holster, but that's a very European big game hunter thing and this does after all originate from Czechoslovakia so we can overlook this one faux pas. And I'll be especially forgiving if www.luxuryfirearms.com feels like donating a BRNO to the AFD for an in-depth review, but until then I'll keep on dreaming and saying my prayers at night that God see's fit to let me have one. GOM.