Great Glock article!!!!👍

[crufflers]

That is also tongue-in-cheek.

Can I/we trust anything you post on the Internet?

1911 vs Glock threads and their fanboys always keep it real here. It is always all facts and no emotions, just like the rest of the world.

I'm sure OP knew somehow, someway a bunch of 1911 fans would flock to his Glock link thread. That's just how it works and there's no one asking you to trust them here. I do love my PPQ Glock. It is pretty decent.

[SkyHawk]

The Toyota Corolla is the most popular car.
Glock is the most popular pistol.

Neither is "the best" at anything, they are designed to be practical and economical.

Except no police, Army or Special Forces field a Corolla. So there must be a tad more to it than economics. Otherwise they'd be carrying HiPoint C9s.

That little thing is performance.

[elSquid]

Except no police, Army or Special Forces field a Corolla. So there must be a tad more to it than economics.

[L84CABO]

They forgot to mention that it's dead ugly.

[sigfan91]

Simplicity is the key.

"Perfection is achieved not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away." -- forgot the origin other than Civilization 4

Simple things don't break as often. Simple things are easier to repair if broken. Simple things are cheap to produce and cheap to replace.

It's great to have complicated, high performance machines with lots of cool functionalities and precision, if one has the means to maintain them. Most people do not have unlimited resources. Most militaries and police organizations don't have unlimited resources. That's why they picked Glock. They need their guns to function reliably more than achieving match accuracy.

Mechanically, Glock is as close to perfection as there is for a handgun. I have many Sigs, and 2 Glocks. Should the zombie apocalypse happen tomorrow and I can only have one gun, I would keep the Glock 19.

[AFTII]

I would not go so far as to label Gaston Glock as a "Nazi" soldier. There were more than many in the Wermacht who were Army and not necessarily Nazi sympathizers, fought because of direct orders even to the death, and as a conscript (read that as "draftee") he was probably forced to do his time, as were American conscripts during the Viet Nam "conflict". (I am a USAF Nam Vet and only enlisted in the USAF because my draft lottery number was 37 out of 365 and I did not want to be an Army grunt.)

He was born in 1929 so he would have been no more than 16 years old in 1945 when conscripted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Glock

So just lay off of the Nazi tag.

You have a good evening, sir.

Jim

[ianS]

I've been reading about the development of the Fender Stratocaster (and by relation the Telecaster) electric guitar. Leo Fender never learned how to play the guitar. He simply took his know how in builiding and inventing things and mixed that with the input of guitarists to make what he thought were the best guitars he could make. When the Telecaster and especially the Stratocaster first came out they looked unlike any other guitar before. Leo Fender did not have preconceived notions of what a guitar was "supposed to be". Unlike previous guitars that looked like they were crafted by artisans the Tele and Strat simply looked assembled in a factory by semi skilled labor which it was. Leo Fender did not invent the solid body guitar either but he popularized it and made it accessible all around the world. To this day the Stratocaster is what avg lay person thinks of when they think of an electric guitar. The development of the Stratocaster and its success is eerily similar to what Gaston Glock has achieved with the Glock 17 in the firearm world. They were two outsiders that changed the status quo.

[ianS]

The Toyota Corolla is the most popular car.
Glock is the most popular pistol.

Neither is "the best" at anything, they are designed to be practical and economical.

Gaston Glock simply set out to make the best service pistol that could be issued for the Austrian military . To be as durable as reliable and shootable as possible for an affordable mass produced pistol. A pistol that can take a lot of punishment and be easy to service in the field in order to get back into the fight. That is its reason for being. He set out to make an effective fighting weapon/implement, that's all. Therein lie its "beauty", its singular focus, its purpose. It is best at that.

If the tactical yuppies need to compare their guns to status symbols well that is their prerogative. And it is all the whiny weenies that are set in trying to make the simple beauty of the Glock pistol as needlessly complicated as all the others.

[porcupineballs]

It makes perfect sense now knowing that glocks are created by a guy that had a lack of knowledge about hand guns.

[ianS]

It makes perfect sense now knowing that glocks are created by a guy that had a lack of knowledge about hand guns.

Not true. He did not create it by himself.

I also gave an example above of someone who lacked knowledge about guitars creating guitars that would change the sound of country blues and rock music as we know it today.

[calif 15-22]

It makes perfect sense now knowing that glocks are created by a guy that had a lack of knowledge about hand guns.

I can laugh now as a Glock owner

[M76]

Every gun-lover should own at least one Glock...

[BigPun762]

Sure...need a truck bed for the GPMG.





— Michael

Toyota, Glocks, and AKs.

Ultimate kit for Zombie Apocalypse lol.

[sigfan91]

I've been reading about the development of the Fender Stratocaster (and by relation the Telecaster) electric guitar. Leo Fender never learned how to play the guitar. He simply took his know how in builiding and inventing things and mixed that with the input of guitarists to make what he thought were the best guitars he could make. When the Telecaster and especially the Stratocaster first came out they looked unlike any other guitar before. Leo Fender did not have preconceived notions of what a guitar was "supposed to be". Unlike previous guitars that looked like they were crafted by artisans the Tele and Strat simply looked assembled in a factory by semi skilled labor which it was. Leo Fender did not invent the solid body guitar either but he popularized it and made it accessible all around the world. To this day the Stratocaster is what avg lay person thinks of when they think of an electric guitar. The development of the Stratocaster and its success is eerily similar to what Gaston Glock has achieved with the Glock 17 in the firearm world. They were two outsiders that changed the status quo.

Here's another example of how an outsider changed the industry: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane.

He had no idea how to direct a film. He just wanted to tell a story. The result was a radically different style than everything that had ever come before and influenced everything ever since.

Of course for every Orson Welles, Gaston Glock, and Leo Fender, there are thousands of failed attempt at re-inventing the wheel

[tanks]

I'm glad it wasn't just another CZ 75 clone. He must have done something right for everyone else to copy his design - especially recent releases from H&K and Sig. Glocks of all brands are pretty damn popular.

You realize, I hope, that the H&K came up with a striker fired handgun way before Glock.