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The .45 GAP (Glock Auto Pistol) or .45 Glock (11.43×19mmRB) is a pistol cartridge designed by Ernest Durham, an engineer with CCI/Speer, at the request of firearms manufacturer Glock to provide a cartridge that would equal the power of the .45 ACP, have a stronger case head to reduce the possibility of case neck blowouts, and be shorter to fit in a more compact handgun.
Glock 17 pistol with a black Parkerized topcoat. Glock Ges.m.b.H., an Austrian firearms manufacturer, uses a black Parkerizing process as a topcoat to a Tenifer process to protect the slides of the pistols they manufacture. After applying the Tenifer process, a black Parkerized finish is applied and the slide is protected even if the Parkerized ...
The side grip has been portrayed in movies since at least the 1960s, notably in the westerns One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). [1] The style's cinematic benefit is that it makes it easier to see both the weapon and the actor's face in a tight camera shot.
Glocks, furthermore, cannot legally have magazines with a capacity of more than 10 bullets in the nation’s capital, and some models of Glock come with a standard capacity that exceeds that limit.
Vice President Kamala Harris revealed this week that she owns a Glock — a weapon that is restricted for purchase in California amid an ongoing court battle over the state’s gun laws.
An attendee holds a Glock Ges.m.b.H. GLOCK 19 Gen5 9mm pistol during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022.
Glock 17MB: The 17MB is a version with ambidextrous magazine catch. This model, along with the other MB variants, was no longer available upon the introduction of the fourth-generation models, which have a reversible magazine catch. Glock 17M: Introduced in 2016, the 17M was created in response to an FBI solicitation for a new full-size 9mm ...
(I'd provide a link to the online version, but WSJ Online is a pay site.) (EDIT: the article said "9mm Glock" and was about Mark Barton. In my head "9mm Glock" translated to "Glock 17". May bad.) Common use would seem to apply to the the individual guns articles too. My position on the name of the gun is that it is not, in fact, "GLOCK".