No they are NOT C&R. They are very nice little guns for the money. They are not very popular , because they haven't been on the milsurp market that long. BATF just ruled to stop all imports on these , so what you see here now is all your gonna see for a while. I have heard rumors on why they stopped imports on these but it really doesn't make sense. They said something about the gun being to small to meet some criteria. I have seen the gun and it isn't really all that small...well put it this way I have seen much smaller guns. I went to a local gun show this weekend , I only saw one Zastava the whole day. The dealer wanted $225.00 for ...I just laughed. He said he hadn't heard anything about the BATF ban.