Glock-18
The polymer-framed pistol that revolutionized modern handguns.
The Glock (German: [ˈglɔk]; stylized as GLOCK) is a brand of polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols (as well as some rifles and one machine pistol) designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock GmbH. The firearm, designed by company founder Gaston Glock (1929–2023), entered Austrian military and police service in 1982 as the P80 (later known commercially as the Glock 17) after outperforming established competitors in reliability and safety tests. Despite initial market resistance due to its "plastic" construction, the Glock became the first commercially successful line of pistols with a polymer frame.
- Calibre
- 9×19 mm Parabellum
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Lore & Background
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In Their Own Story
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Did You Know?
- Gaston Glock had no experience in firearms design or manufacture when his first pistol, the Glock 17, was being prototyped.
- The Glock 17 was named corresponding to its magazine capacity or because it was the 17th patent procured by the company.
- The Glock 17 outperformed eight different pistols from five other established manufacturers in Austrian military trials.
- Glock introduced ferritic nitrocarburizing into the firearms industry as an anticorrosion surface treatment for metal gun parts.
- By 1992, some 350,000 pistols had been sold in more than 45 countries, including 250,000 in the United States alone.
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