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Related to the Zastava, is this Norinco Model 213, which just the same is a Tokarev clone with a manual safety and chambered in 9mm Luger, made for commercial export.
In the US these aren't super common, because Norinco got themselves v& and b& in the 90s, but I think you can still get them in Canada, and they were pretty popular with black gun owners in South Africa, as they were a good and affordable pistol, which was commonly available in a package deal.
You'd fill out the basic paperwork for a firearms license, the gunshop owner would walk you through the qualification process, and you'd get a kit with a safe and a bag of cement so you could satisfy South African legal storage requirements.
Since a lot of poor people in South Africa lived (and probably still live in) houses with dirt floors, if outright not mud huts, this package deal would allow these people to lay down a small concrete foundation in their house and to bolt down the safe to it, to legally store their firearm (they don't allow you to just keep a gun in a drawer or a loose free-standing safe).
Given how dangerous South Africa was, and still is, these package deals must have been a blessing.
