Glock Facts
Heh: Glock’s first handgun model was the Glock 17, a 40 x 53 mm high-explosive select-fire pistol with a magazine capacity of 24 rounds (which was unusually large at the time.)
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January 1st, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Sounds like something the brady bunch would come up with as facts….
January 1st, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Maybe the prototype was, but the production Glock 17s were 9mm and (if I recall correctly) 19 rounds.
January 1st, 2011 at 2:19 pm
If you read the full original post, you see what a crock this is:
“Glock’s first handgun model was the Glock 17, a 40 x 53 mm high-explosive select-fire pistol with a magazine capacity of 24 rounds (which was unusually large at the time.) The handgun came with a scope capable of picking out moving targets against a static background with day or night thermal vision. Each high-explosive round (traditionally called, “grenades”) is capable of being detonated upon reaching a preset range, giving it the ability to spray shrapnel on targets regardless of cover. A Glock 17 is capable of demolishing a Humvee with a single three-round burst.”
January 1st, 2011 at 2:27 pm
That article is full of typos, to wit: “The Glock 20, carrying 120mm depleted uranium antitank rounds.”
120mm? Absurd! Everyone knows that the Glock 20 fires 10mm depleted uranium antitank rounds.
January 1st, 2011 at 3:07 pm
I prefer to select “fire” over “don’t fire.” All it takes is the moving of a single lever!
January 1st, 2011 at 3:11 pm
The description of the Glock 19 was over the line, though. Here’s hoping the author gets a Glock 19 where the sun don’t shine.
January 1st, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Personally, I think this is more likely to have been written by a pro-gun guy who is mocking the Brady Bunch PSH over “OMG plastic assault weapon handguns with large capacity magazines!”
I got a chuckle out of it, especially the doctored photo with triple barrel…
January 1st, 2011 at 10:08 pm
My sister lives in NY and thinks their gun laws are too permissive. She’s pretty sure my guns are going to go on a killing spree (with or without me).
We were camping in the Adirondacks when we saw a gun store selling Glocks.
That night she made some comment about how, “Why do they need to sell Glocks?” as if there’s something especially scary about Glocks and selling them is crossing some very scary, black plastic line.
She might have written that article, I’ll have to check.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Veeshir,
Your sister has been very effectively propagandized which is pervasive. Even through entertainment venues, it is continually promoted that only hired (government agents) guns are good and that guns in the hands of the common people are bad.
If your sister is “pro-choice” ask her; “Why is it a bad thing to possess and carry the means to protect your own body against the robber, the rapist and the murderer?”
January 1st, 2011 at 10:30 pm
That article is exactly why I bought a Glock.
Not because any of it is true, but because other people think it is true.
January 2nd, 2011 at 10:18 am
Ron, I’ve given up trying to get my sister to make sense with her beliefs.
She still thinks the NY Times is a trusted, non-biased news source.
Heck, she thinks the Albany Times Useless is a good paper.
I usually just point and laugh anymore but I actually tried to explain that a Glock was just another handgun and its rep was based on being the preferred gun for gangbangers.
She still thinks it’s a special, extra scary gun for some reason. She wouldn’t/couldn’t explain any more why they’re extra-scary, she just knew it was because she was told that.
She’s all independently thinking and stuff, you can tell because she believes what she’s supposed to believe.
January 2nd, 2011 at 12:27 pm
This post sounds like the onion wrote it….funny
p.s. Glock 30sf FTW!………….
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:28 am
I agree with J.J. I mean, c’mon.
“The Glock 55, whose projectiles find their target, laugh at him, make fun of his ugly children, and then bang his wife without protection (the Army’s “Ass Blaster II”)”
That’s hilarious!