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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Glock numbering.
- Message-ID: <199301010017.AA18274@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 14:38:49 GMT
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- In article <1259@blue.cis.pitt.edu> dcwst8+@pitt.edu (David C Winters) writes:
- # The first Glock to hit the market was the 17 - were numbers 1
- #through 16 prototype models?
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- No, the Glock 17 was the 17th design Glock patented. The first 16 were
- not firearms. In fact, the Glock 17 was the first gun they ever designed.
-
- # Also, Glock has the 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 on the market; why
- #is there never any mention of the "Glock 18?" Does such an animal even
- #exist?
-
- The Glock 18 is a limited-production full-auto machine pistol (produced,
- I believe, exclusively for an Austrian Army counter-terrorist unit.)
- It is identicle to the Glock 17, except for a fire-select lever on
- the slide and some internal modifications to make parts _not_ compatable
- with the Glock 17 (and thereby prevent conversion of Glock 17s to
- full auto.) The rate of fire is truely excessive: 1200 rpm. Glock also
- produced a 33-round magazine for this pistol. But even so, I understand
- a great deal of training is required to do anything except unload a
- 33-round magazine in 1.5 seconds.
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- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
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