glock

Third one: >On May 22, 2012, Holmes purchased a Glock 22 pistol at a Gander Mountain shop in Aurora.

With as popular as Glock is, you'd think Austria would be bigger than a basically insignificant sliver.

He probably could have sold the Glock for $500 or so, less if he was impatient.

They happen even in quality weapons like a 1911 or your modern Glock or Sig Sauer.

Many police forces use Glock 17 pistols, which have a standard capacity of 17 bullets[0].

Certainly, for manufacturing purposes, you frequently want to do that, especially for guns like the Glock where all three of those are relatively easily swapped.

I pulled out my Glock from my bag, loaded a round in the chamber, and put the gun to my head.

The robot was armed with an airsoft gun, and I with a Glock pistol.

I suppose if it was scaled by units sold instead of dollar values that may swing it towards inexpensive small arms like Glock pistols.

The Sirius Sled Patrol in Northern Greenland use a Glock chambered for the 10mm Auto after experience showed that the 9mm Parabellum was insufficient in polar bear encounters.

If we want to get hung up on cyclic rate: the (unobtainable) Glock 18 (fully-automatic handgun) has a cyclic rate of 1300 rounds per minute.

If I'd put that same amount of ammo through my Glock 17, I would have had a sore wrist at least for a little while.

The issue is, sticking with the Glock example, that the polymer lower carries the serial plate and is considered to be "the firearm" since barrels are interchangeable and their sale is not regulated.

Where of course self-defense is not "a practical use", e.g for bog standard "plastic gun" "assault weapons" such as the Glock.

That said, owning both a 1911 and a Glock, I'll admit that I can't really pin a favorite.

Modern designs (Glock, et al.) have far fewer components, and much less trouble with the tolerance stack ups that plague the 1911.

Glock doesn't want to have liability for a FrankenGlock kaboom....