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The Glock pistol design was not the first to incorporate a plastic frame. Heckler & Koch used polymer for their VP70 pistol frame in 1970[4]. HK's innovation of polymer frames and polygonal rifling seem to have been influential in the Glock design. Still earlier, Remington introduced their polymer-framed Nylon 66 Rifle in 1959. This was so revolutionary at the time that Remington dyed the plastic brown to resemble wood and fitted a cosmetic sheet-metal cover on the receiver to make it appear to be made from steel. Further, the most extensive use of polymers in a pistol was in the Ram-Line Syn Tech Exactor pistol with a barrel made from steel-lined plastic.
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The Glock was the fastest selling pistol of the 1990's. This tape shows, in detail, easy-to-follow instructions for disassembly and then reassembly of the Glock series of pistols. Complete attention to proper nomenclature of parts and how they function. This useful information applies to all Glock handguns, Glock 17, 17L, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. The best information available on how to take your Glock down to the very last part! Thousands sold!
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Glock pistols have several fundamental design advantages over most other pistols. The grip angle is ergonomic. Another advantage is the Glock's low bore axis. This minimizes muzzle flip and tends to minimize perceived recoil. Glock sub compacts come with the same high visibility sights as Glock full size service pistols, an important advantage compared to the tiny sights supplied on many sub compact pistols. The result of these design subtleties is that the Glock sub compact pistols have good practical accuracy compared to most of their competition.
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The Glock 18 has an identical appearance to the Glock 17... the g18 has the addition of the fire selector. Due to the fully automatic mode, the internal infrastructure of the Glock 18 is markedly different from the Glock 17, and the parts are not interchangeable. This was purposefully performed by Glock in order to ensure that the Glock 17 was not a semi automatic version of the Glock 18, however the two would be considered separate and distinct pistols.
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Glock pistols do set off metal detectors and can indeed be detected by X-ray machines, due to their metal barrels and slides. The claim that they could not was first made in an article published in The Washington Post on January 13, 1985, entitled, "Quaddafi Buying Austrian Plastic Pistol". In this article, vocal gun control advocate Jack Anderson made the allegations, which were then reported without fact-checking by the Associated Press and further reported by many United States television news stations and newspapers. It has since become an urban legend that to this day continues to appear in news reports and movies, and has even been a topic of debate in the United States Congress.
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The Lawman 200-grain TMJ load recorded 956 fps from the Glock 37 while the same load from the test Glock 38 ran 980 fps. The Winchester 230-grain loads, both the WinClean BEB load and the Ranger "T" load, ran slightly slower, with the difference being between 20 and 35 fps. But in terms of accuracy, the test Glock 38 clearly preferred the Winchester Ranger "T"; this load consistently shot the smallest groups by a wide margin.
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