Glock 22 Gen 1

Austria's Glock 22 Generation 1 in .40 S&W

   Depending on the department, the police can choose from various models of semi-automatic handguns. The most popular is the Glock 22 loaded with fifteen .40 S&W hollowpoints and the Glock 17 or 19 loaded with fifteen to seventeen 9x19mm hollowpoints. The Glock is simple, no really look at it, it's a glorified rectangle, this is a two year old's drawing of a gun come to life; just a box for a slide, a big ole mag release, and an internal hammer.
   This is actually the reason why some departments equip their officers with Glocks: it's simple. Another fancy thing about the Glock is that the magazines and slides are interchangeable (within reason). The Glock 22 magazine will fit in a Glock 27 (which looks quite nice), and if you have a .22 conversion slide and magazine for your Glock 17, you'll have an inexpensive training gun for practicing quick reloads, acquiring faster sight picture, or getting your younger ones accustomed to handguns (be cautious with the young ones though, during the colder weather the trigger safety may start to irritate them after prolonged use).
   That's also another issue some may have with Glock; the safety, or lack there of. Most firearms produced these days have a switch, lever, or button to press which prevents the firing pin from touching the primer. The Glock does not, well at least not a discernible one. The Glock instead has this wee little trigger mechanism in front of the proper trigger, this is properly called the "Safe Action Trigger", the gun will not fire unless both triggers are squeezed. Compared to the Colt which has two. But of course no safety mechanism is 100% safe, and is no better than the safety between an ethical shooter's ears.
 
   The Glock 17 was the first handgun released by Gaston Glock, it is called "17" because it was the seventeenth patent they made. The Glock was also a big deal because of the company's expertice in advanced synthetic polymers. Some television shows have erroneously stated that the polymer frame would allow the gun to pass metal detectors, despite the fact that the barrel and many of it's internals are very much metal. Because of the Glock's simple shape, many attachments have been made with it in mind, the most popular is the CornerShot, it may look like an intimidating machine gun, but it's really a Glock attached to a glorified stick... There is also various carbine kits that makes the gun look like something out of a Sci-Fi flick.


I modeled a Glock becasue I grew up with them, used them and loved them. Personally they don't compare to the 10mm S&W 1006 but that's just my opinion, and you shouldn't take the people's opinion on firearms on the internet to heart. ESPECIALLY when it comes to the Glock v.s 1911 debate.