The "modern" gun is forty y.o. this year - and it's main caliber ammunition - the 9mm Luger was designed 120 years ago in 1901. - (the official definition of 'antique' is to be one hundred years or more old).
Author Stephen King wrote, “Sooner or later, everything old is new again.”
You might choose a different date to record but April 1981 was when Gaston Glock lodged his patent applications for the Glock 17 .. although he and his team had of course been working on the design of a winning gun project for some time to arrive at this stage.
The saying "There is nothing new under the Sun" - is itself rather ancient - as SOLOMON is recorded in his wisdom to have said it around 3,000 years back - but it is very true about the Glock 17 and it's tribe. This superbly successful pistol design pulls together multiple ideas that have all been used previously over the last 600 odd years that have passed since gunpowder started to go bang in portable guns.
The business founded & operated by Gaston and Helga Glock (divorced 2011) - together with a team of very useful gun 'experts' - combined the simplest features that would work together into a semi-automatic firearm that worked.
They scared the pants off the opposition.
I used to take a lump hammer to the range and demonstrate how you could beat the crap out of a Series 1 G17 by slamming it repeatedly with the hammer on the concrete floor and making it skitter about before loading a magazine and throwing 17 holes into a downrange target. "Any Smith & Wesson revolver owner wanting to try this?" - I sold a few eh ..
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If you want to learn about these guns .. buy some books or try googling for on line reviews. Some folk love them and other sad unfortunates hate em .. but just about EVERY gun manufacturer has copied the original and sells it's own branded version now.
Media 'journalists' love to scribble inaccurate outrage and sensationalism whenever they smell a dollar - spouting ignorant nonsense about ceramic terrorist guns that are undetectable by X-Ray machines. - Poor quality science fictions that frighten the naive and fearfully gullible stupid.
There are stories I could tell about my involvement with the Glock - not all happy - but the guns are excellent working tools.
I discovered Glocks in the mid 1980s by reading a story in a Guns & Ammo magazine that I picked-up in a local High Street shop - but all gun books have now been removed from New Zealand retail outlets and are no longer imported for sale.
CENSORSHIP is being imposed by our current regime as part of social engineering.
I'd love to see Pistol New Zealand or anyone - import & distribute gun books as a revenue earner ..
Marty K.
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