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- From: emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Glock numbering.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.180649.25245@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 14:17:52 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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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?
- #
- # 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 17 refers to magazine capacity, a marketing ploy. A Glock 1 under
- the same system would be a single shot. The following numbers don't
- refer to magazine capacity. In true marketeering fashion, later models
- have to have higher numbers whatever their capacity.
-
- The 18 is a full auto pistol, not available here.
-
- Gary
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