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    Gun Digest eBook of the Glock
    Gun Digest eBook of the Glock
    Gun Digest eBook of the Glock
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    Gun Digest eBook of the Glock

    By Gun Digest

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    This short e-book contains six chapters by Gun Digest's top experts - including Jerry Ahern and Massad Ayoob - on the popular Glock semi-automatic pistol. Includes gun tests, history, overview, facts and tips for buying, selling, shooting and maintaining the Glock.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateNov 11, 2011
    ISBN9781440231551
    Gun Digest eBook of the Glock

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      Gun Digest eBook of the Glock - Gun Digest

      Chapter 1

      The Glock Pistol

      Drastic, Fantastic Plastic: In a mere 20 years, a radical design became the benchmark and profoundly changed the handgun industry.

      By Massad Ayoob

      The gun that started the Glock Revolution: the first generation of the G17.

      The Glock pistol has profoundly changed the handgun industry, creating a new generation of polymer-frame pistols, not to mention semiautomatics with uniform trigger pulls from the first shot, but usually without manual safety devices. Exquisitely light and ergonomic, easy to handle and easy to shoot well, the Glock pistols have boldly carved their own very large niche in the history of handgunning.

      Pedigree

      The Glock has been well received by the experts. All in all, this Glock 17 has to be rated the number-one military handgun today, says Timothy Mullin. It is rapidly stripped, efficient to manufacture, low in cost, holds 17 rounds, has light recoil, and has an ideal safety system. The more you shoot it, the more you like it.¹

      Ayoob demonstrates the G18 machine pistol on full auto. There are six spent casings in the air.

      In the second edition of the Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery, Chuck Karwan wrote, Though the Glock is technically a double-action-only pistol…the trigger pull does not feel like that of a double-action. For some agencies and people – including yours truly – that is the charm of the Glock. It offers the simplicity advantage of a DAO system with a crisp, easy-to-control sear release that feels like a good single-action trigger pull.²

      When Chuck Taylor wrote the fourth edition of that title, he commented, The Glock is perhaps the only truly revolutionary pistol design to surface since the first two decades of this century and reflects great engineering skill. It’s simple, easy to disassemble and maintain, accurate and rugged almost beyond belief. In fact, I’ve been trying to wear one out for over five years without success. So far, my Model 17 9mm has ingested more than 125,000 rounds of full-power ammunition and is still going strong. During the course of the test, the gun has been presented from a holster over 500,000 times, speed and tactical reloaded in excess of 100,000 times, and carried all over the world in virtually every natural environment possible. Yet it has continued to function without so much as a hiccup. In my experience, no other handgun – even the legendary Colt M1911 .45 ACP – can approach, much less duplicate or exceed, this performance.³ Taylor concludes, The plain facts indicate the Glock is quite safe and easy to shoot, and needs little to achieve its maximum potential. It’s also tough, accurate, and utterly dependable. In my opinion, this is the best combat pistol in the world today and well worth your consideration.⁴

      Standard frame Glocks have been produced in these five sizes. From top, 6-inch longslide (G17L), 5.3-inch Tactical/Practical (G34), 4.5-inch full size (G17), 4.0-inch Compact (G19), 3.5-inch subcompact (G26). All shown are 9mm; .40s are identical in size.

      More than the experts, however, threw in their lot with the Pre-eminent Polymer Pistol. The rank and file went to the gun in a big way. It is issued by more police departments than any other, overwhelmingly leading in sales to law enforcement agencies with a market share claimed to be over 70%. In 1990, the FBI said that it would not approve the Glock because its short, easy trigger pull for the first shot was incompatible with their training. A decade later, the Bureau was issuing a

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