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Things to Know About Glock Pistols If You Are Thinking About Buying One

Buying a Glock in not like buying a Colt or a Kimberhttps://www.kimberamerica.com/. There are some things you need to know.

• The Glock Safe Action Pistol is a series of polymer framed, short recoil operated locked breech, semiautomatic pistols designed and produced by Glockhttps://www.glock.com/. It entered in Austrian military and police service in 1982 after it was the top performer in an exhaustive series of reliability and safety tests.

• In 1980, Gaston Glock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Glockwas the first to use polymers along with injection molding machines to make a much harder polymer than previous, capable of withstanding the harsh conditions that firearms had to go through. Glock may not have been the first polymer handgun, but it was the first to be durable enough for military and law enforcement use.

• Glock was a real game changer in the self-defense market. Not since the invention of the Smith & Wesson J frame https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/mp-bodyguard-38-integrated-crimson-trace-laserhas there been such a surge in civilians carrying firearms. The Glock was one of the first lightweight semi-auto polymer point and shoot pistols available and marketed to civilians. The ease of use, very light overall weight and impressive reliability helped make it as popular today with civilians as with military and police.

Contrary to popular movies and video games, the Glock pistol doesn’t actually have an external hammer to cock for dramatic effect like a Colt 1911https://www.colt.com/detail-page/col-gold-cup-trophy-9mm-5-9rdor some revolvers. Nor does it have an external safety that you can accidentally leave on.It does, however, have internal safeties to help make the pistol safer, like drop safeties to ensure the gun doesn’t go off when accidentally dropped and a trigger safety in the middle of the trigger to help with accidental discharges.

• Glocks are not ceramic guns that will go through metal detectors that cost more than you make in a month.That nice little myth was made popular by Bruce Willis in movie Die Hard https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/which was one of the very first movies to use a Glock. I wouldn’t try to take it through a metal detector because the slide, barrel, and most the internals, basically half the gun, is made from metal.

• According to Glock, the plastic frame material is secretly called polymer 2. This is the same material as Dupont glass reinforced nylon. A strong and durable polymer that resists wear. Sprinter Michael Johnson wore track shoes made of this to win gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. A quick Hey Siri or Hey Google search will shed more light on this space age polymer.

• The Glock 17 https://eu.glock.com/en/products/pistols/g17was the first functional Glock pistol. Then came the full auto Glock 18 and the smaller frame 19. They had been numbered one after one. Ever since then, all the way up to the new Glock 46. Most people think the G 17 was the 17th version of Glock, but that is just not the case. It was actually the 17 patent held by Glock. Other patents include products Glock made before they got into firearms like training, hand grenades, knives in machine gun belt links.

• The Glock 46 will be the newest Glock. It will be the first Glock with a rotating barrel instead of a tilting barrel similar in to size as the Glock 19. And it will have many of the Gen 5 features, including a lack of finger grooves. It is being made specifically for the German police andit is not known whether it will be released into the American market.

• Although most people associate Glock with a 9mmhttps://www.federalpremium.com/handgun/american-eagle/american-eagle-handgun/11-AE9DP100.htmlchambering because it is the most popular, they come in almost every major semi-automatic handgun caliber, including .380,.45, https://www.federalpremium.com/handgun/american-eagle/american-eagle-handgun/11-AE45A100.html.45 gap, 357 Sig and even the big 10mm. You can even get .22 conversion kids to make practicing with your favorite Glock a little bit cheaper and a 22 pistol is also a great way to introduce new shooters to handguns.

• Glock is one of the most used, most popular and well-known pistols on earth. It is so well known, in fact, that plenty of people just call all handguns Glocks. A quick Hey Siri or Hey Google search will confirm thatGlocks are used by military and law enforcement in over 60 countries andsixty five percent of the law enforcement market in the United States alone.As of 2013 over 10 million Glocks were sold worldwide, making it one of the most sold handguns in history, only getting beat by the Smith and Wesson Model 10, maybe even the Colt 1911.

As rugged as they are Glocks need to be stored correctly. Once you have one Glock more will follow and one of the best ways to store and organize them in a gun vault is to use the Hyskore www.hyskore.com 30277 Six Gun Modular Storage Rack https://hyskore.com/products/30277-6-gun-eva-pistol-rack/ It is made from smooth suede like, closed cell foam, and can be customized to personal preferences. This is available from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/HYSKORE-Modular-Pistol-Rack-Green/dp/B00V72R4R2/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=hyskore+dergreezer&qid=1573757094&sr=8-1-fkmr0.As far as magazine storage goes, if you have that many guns you probably have many magazines. Hyskore has also developed 2 really good pistol magazine storage racking systems. They are the 30316 Double Stack Magazine Organizer https://hyskore.com/products/30316-double-stack-modular-magazine-storage/ which holds 12 double stack magazines, and the 30318 Single Stack Magazine Organizer https://hyskore.com/products/30318-modular-single-stack-magazine-storage/ which holds 16 single stack 1911 style magazines. Both of these items are made from the same closed cell foam as the pistol rack, and the foam sections mount to a sturdy rigid vinyl platform that gets mounted to the wall or the inside of a vault with the included screws. These racks provide neat and functional organization for both fully loaded and unloaded pistol magazines.