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Glock 19: The Glock 19 is effectively a reduced-size Glock 17, called the "Compact" by the manufacturer. It was first produced in 1988, primarily for military and law enforcement. The Glock 19's barrel and pistol grip are shorter by about 12 mm (0.5 in) than the Glock 17, and it uses a magazine with a standard capacity of 15 rounds.
This gun used to have no hop-up (until very recently when one with a fixed hop-up was made), and due to Korean laws on airsoft gun power, the gun's velocity is 200 ft/s (61 m/s) with .2 gram BBs. It is upgradable just like the Marui Famas, and is considered a very skirmishable gun once upgraded.
Selective fire options among automatic, 3-round burst and semi-automatic operations are all possible, which gives these guns the popular name "automatic electric guns", or AEGs. [5] These guns often attain muzzle velocities from 150 to 650 ft/s (46 to 198 m/s) and rates of fire (RoF) between 100 and 1500 rounds per minute. They are the most ...
North China Type 19 Handgun: North China Engineering Co Ltd 8×22mm Nambu Japan: 1944 Obregón pistol: Mexico City Arsenal.45 ACP Mexico: 1934 Ortgies Semi-Automatic Pistol: Ortgies & Co..25 ACP.32 ACP.380 ACP Weimar Republic: 1919 OTs-02 Kiparis: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 9×18mm Makarov Soviet Union: 1991 OTs-23 Drotik: KBP Instrument ...
Glock Ges.m.b.H. (doing business as GLOCK) is a light weapons manufacturer headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria, named after its founder, Gaston Glock. The company makes popular polymer-framed pistols , but also produces field knives , entrenching tools , various horse related products, and apparel.
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun is a 320-page book written by Paul M. Barrett and published by Broadway Books. The book details the history of the famous Glock pistol . It also points out the business mistakes of rival gunmakers that helped Glock surpass them all.
It was the first polymer-framed handgun, predating the Glock 17 by 12 years. At 820 g (28.9 oz) unloaded, the weapon is lighter than most metal framed pistols of the time. It has a double-stack, double-feed magazine; double-feed magazines are uncommon for pistols even today.
Gunsite was founded by Jeff Cooper as the American Pistol Institute (API) in 1976 in order to teach the modern technique of shooting. The modern technique is a method of use of the handgun for self-defense. The technique uses a two-handed grip of the pistol, which brings the pistol to eye-level, so that the sights may be used to aim the pistol ...