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- From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Glock numbering.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.190238.15911@netcom.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:31:46 GMT
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- In <1993Jan1.180649.25245@ke4zv.uucp> emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman) writes:
- #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?
-
- #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.
-
-
- you are misinformed. The model 17 is the seventeenth design patent that was
- issued to Gaston Glock. The previous sixteen patents were for such remarkable
- items as plastic hinges and doorknobs. The Glock model 17 was the first gun
- ever designed by Mr. Glock, and in that regard, it is an extraordinary
- achievement.
-
- if it were a marketing ploy, they could have just as easily called it the
- Glock 18, since that's how many rounds i carry in mine (17+1).
-
- The model 18 *is* available here, but it is merely extremely difficult to
- procure, for obvious reasons. i can say that i don't frequently see full-auto
- pistols under the glass at my local dealer....however, certain law enforcement
- agencies in the U.S. do have them.
-
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