![]() It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was built with only 36 parts that were interchangeable with those of other models. The standard semi-automatic Glock could fire as many as 17 bullets from its magazine without reloading (one equipped with an extended thirty-three cartridge magazine was used in Tucson to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others). ![]() first saw a Glock in 1984, his reaction was, “Jeez, that’s ugly.” But the advantages of the pistol soon became apparent. ![]() When Karl Water, a firearm salesman based in the U.S. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike.Ĭreated in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army, the Glock pistol, with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, arrived in America at a fortuitous time. ![]() ![]() police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. Based on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American’s gun. ![]()
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