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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!ucsu.Colorado.EDU
  2. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.guns
  4. Subject: Re: Glock numbering.
  5. Message-ID: <199301021654.AA04773@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  6. Date: 2 Jan 93 18:44:04 GMT
  7. Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
  8. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  9. Lines: 12
  10. Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan1.180649.25245@ke4zv.uucp> emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman) writes:
  13. ##     The first Glock to hit the market was the 17 - were numbers 1
  14. ##through 16 prototype models?
  15.  
  16. #The 17 refers to magazine capacity, a marketing ploy.
  17.  
  18. At least according to Kasler's book on Glocks, this isn't the case:
  19. Glock no doubt wanted to avoid starting at one for marketing reasons, 
  20. but he selected 17 because the pistol was his seventeenth patent.
  21.  
  22.                                                    Frank Crary
  23.                                                    CU Boulder
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