Modern Classics: The GLOCK 23 Pistol
I can’t recall who it was that hipped me to the idea that it was possible to convert a .40 S&W pistol to a 9mm by swapping barrels and magazines, but twenty years ago, that’s what I did.
I can’t recall who it was that hipped me to the idea that it was possible to convert a .40 S&W pistol to a 9mm by swapping barrels and magazines, but twenty years ago, that’s what I did.
Americans love handguns for many reasons which we don’t have time to enumerate here. The reality is that proficiency with a handgun is more difficult to come by and achieve than it is with a long gun which has four points of contact.
“[Ruger knows] and criminals know that their RXM pistol can be easily converted to an illegal, lethal fully automatic weapon. They can modify their product to be safer, or they can continue to profit from crime and violence and answer to a lawsuit.”
‘We had taken out the magazine. We had no idea there was a bullet left in the chamber,’ he wrote.
Years later, Glock would comment that it was his lack of experience in the gun-making world that actually led him to succeed and to do things that other more seasoned makers would never have attempted.
Details about his death were released for the first time Friday, including that the alleged shooter, Marcus White-Allen, had pointed the gun at Lovan’s chest in a “joking manner.”
GLOCK is living through interesting times. What they have going for them is the valuable brand equity and reputation for reliability they’ve built over the last 40 years.
California’s GLOCK ban literally originated from a mass shooting carried out by a deranged violent criminal who was let out of prison six years early thanks to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies.
GLOCK has announced the discontinuation of more than two dozen models of their uber-popular handguns yesterday in a move prompted by a combination of litigation and “right-sizing.”
Guns aren’t good luck charms that ward off evil. If you have someone in your life who isn’t into shooting, but does so out of a sense of duty, you owe it to them to help them develop genuine confidence and skill.