home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!dtix.dt.navy.mil!mimsy!univel.COM
- From: Thi_Huynh@univel.COM (Saigon Smuggler)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Glock 10mm and CHP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224243.27871@univel.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:40:23 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Univel
- Lines: 26
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
-
- In article <MAILQUEUE-101.930126081318.288@english.as.ua.edu>, DHORTON@ENGLISH.AS.UA.EDU (David A. Horton) writes:
- |> Jim Del-Vecchio and Frank Crary:
- |>
- |> I heard a similar story about the Glock trials with the CHP --
- |> apparently Glock sent a shipment of something like 500 pistols to the
- |> CHP for evaluation. Upon arrival the armorers disassembled the
- |> pistols to see if the met certain criteria and tossed them aside.
- |> Emphasis on "tossed them aside" into a pile of Glock parts. Didn't
- |> bother to clean them.
- |> When the time for evaluation rolled around they simply assembled the
- |> Glocks out of the pile of parts at random. This was also done with
- |> the S&Ws. Apparently, the Glocks were much more "sensitive" to this
- |> mis-matching of parts than the S&Ws were. The Glocks typically
- |> experienced frame cracks more often than the S&Ws did, but it wasn't
- |> uncommon for a Smith to fail in some other respect, i.e, a broken
- |> extractor, firing pin, etc.
-
- Hmmm. Glock pistols were designed to use drop-in parts. This means that
- if you need to replace your barrel (or any other part) for instance, you
- don't need to machine that part to fit into your gun properly. You just
- order the part and drop it in. In fact, according to Glock, the only tool
- needed for a Glock armorer is pin punch. If you lose it, a ball point pen,
- handcuff key or paper clip will do just fine.
-
- -tt
-
-