Gun Digest eBook of the Glock by Gun Digest

Author:Gun Digest
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3155-1
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

The Extraordinary Glock

From no idea to radical prototype to selected service pistol in under four years? Where was the bureaucracy?

By Raymong Caranta

IN OCTOBER, a Belgian magazine, over the signature of a German gun writer, reported a certain Austrian Glock 17 pistol, chambered in 9mm Luger, mostly made of plastics and stampings. The Glock 17, it was said, was considered for adoption by the Austrian army.

The gun was displayed nowhere at European shows, and was not taken very seriously until this year, when it was learnt that the Glock 17 had been officially approved as the Austrian Army service pistol. It replaces the German P-1, the light alloy descendant of World War II’s P38.

In the gun business, only a few people knew the Glock Company, which was until recently mostly involved in cutlery. Headed by Gaston Glock, an independent engineer specializing in advanced plastics and metal technology for more than a quarter of a century, the firm has only 45 employees. It is located in Deutsches-Wagram in Austria.

The first significant commercial success of the Glock Company occurred in 1978 when its Field Knife 78 was adopted by the Austrian army, which placed orders for 150,000 pieces since then. About the same quantity was sold on the sporting market. Then, Gaston Glock designed, in connection with Dynamit Nobel, the German giant of chemical products, powders and ammunition, an extraordinary hand grenade made of plastics and bursting into 5,000 fragments.

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