I know this is a S&W site, but I was looking for a book to read on the Kindle, and the Amazon site had suggested for me "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun". Like I said, really bad title. The Glock is no more America's gun than the Cowboys are America's team (We all know America loves the Packers!!! Ha!). Still, I downloaded the free sample, and after reading it I knew I had to read the whole book. The book has a pretty detailed chapter on the whole Sigma fiasco that I found quite interesting. I would have to say that if you like books about guns, if you appreciate how people with drive and determination can change the world and make a fortune doing it, and if you want a true inside look at Glock, than this is really good read.

And I thought that I was the only Glock Fan that was allow on the Forum.
Thank you,
Jimmy

There's at least 3 of us.

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Nope, 4 of us.

Make that 5.

Don

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I wouldn't call myself a Glock fan. I would say, rather, that I can acknowledge that they are excellent firearms and they did revolutionize the industry. Today though, they are really just another good choice in a world of high quality polymer pistols.

Sounds like 6 to me.

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Seven! And how appropriate that is, because that's how many I have in the Stable! However, they are WAY outnumbered by Revolvers!

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I THINK I have 7 Glocks...might be more, they seem to multiply when I'm not watching them close. Usually a G36 tucked in a Grizzle holster on my body most days

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8! I have owned 2 and currently own one 17. Awesome guns, come as close as you can to revolver reliability. I wish I had not traded my 22,

I read the book in a day, good read. I think the title means that it's now the preeminent gun in America. 70% market share in law enforcement, rappers rap about it, etc. It's now in the national conscious. It's the coca cola of guns.

Even people with little knowledge of firearms know the name. I work with a VERY diverse group of people and even the really really diverse ones know the name Glock and it's a gun.

Glock is a victim of their own success. Their design has been copied by pretty much every major manufacturer of fire arms, so their market share has been going down. I imagine if you surveyed police and other leos, the market share for Glock type guns, would be high 80s and maybe 90s.

I would say in 100 years, the Glock will be as historically significant as the allmighty 1911.

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8, I have just bought a 26 for summer duty, plus I'd been looking for a small 9mm since a SIG P228 replaced my 19, and another P226 replaced my 17. Ain't nothin like a good SIG!...except for my collection of 3rd. Gen Smiths! Dale

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"Long live the S&W 3rd. Gen.!"

that works, is affordable, accurate, easily replaceable, widely available, and holds no emotional attachment what-so-ever. Sort of like a Sears brand Craftsman tool, solid and reliable and replaceable.

Including the one in LE custody and two I gave my son, I have purchased or traded for nine in about two years. I was about done with buying them, but now I want one of the dark earth colored G19's. I would also like to find another Gen. 2 G19 and Gen. 2.5 G26 but can live without any of them. Currently, I have Gen. 2 G17, 19, 22; two Gen. 2.5 G26; and Gen. 3 G32. I should get my stolen/recovered Gen. 3 G31 back from LE custody after the trial.

I read the book, and the former attorney mentioned in the story charged with embezzlement was found guilty in Cobb county just a few weeks ago. Gaston Glock, a man who swore under oath he did not know who owned Glock, Inc. appears to be Teflon coated.

Count me as a big Glock fan - though I only own two. My little Baby Glock .40 has been a faithful companion for many years and I have complete faith in it.

Before someone chimes in with the inevitable "no soul" comment - mine has more soul than any old classic Smith that has spent its life in a safe or dresser drawer.

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Here's another big Glock fan. I only have three at present, but they get a lot of range time, and the more I shoot them the better I like them.

Is anybody else writing these names down?

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Put me on the list! Now, NOTHING will replace my 3rd jennys as the apples of my eye, but I do love my Glocks. They're just sooooooo reliable!

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I've checked it out of the library on my phone's Kindle. It's pretty well written.

I've owned several Glunks and do not presently own any. Aesthetics, more than anything else. I admire that they work, but am not especially enamored of them.

Do y'all zip over to the glock site and rave about your 686s????

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On this Holy Day, speaking of Glocks at a S&W forum, sacrilegious.

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This is too true. I am a 1911 fan, not much of a Glock fan, but they revolutionized the pistol. Too many new ideas in one pistol not to be considered a real pioneer in firearms. JMB did a lot 100 years ago, Glock was the next real innovation.

I am not a Glock fan, just know good engineering when I see it.

Yeah, and at least one of them is a very bad idea.

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Though I am more of a revolver guy, I do have several 3rd generation S&W semi-autos.

And as I have posted before, "Friends don't let friends buy Glocks."

Stu

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When it comes to Semiautos, there is ONLY one, the 1911.

Nothing else has ever come close...

Until the Glock.

Once upon a time my Dept. outlawed all semiautos for primary carry...

A few years later they were going to authorize a 9mm, either the Beretta, the SIG or the Glock 17.

Well I thought the Glock was a piece of Tupperware Trash.

Because of my job on SWAT I was one of the Officers involved in the tests of the 3 guns.
To make a long story short, I liked the Glock the best, by a wide margin, and that is the gun I chose. The Dept. eventually chose the SIG, but if you had picked the Beretta, or the Glock, you could stay with it.

In the next several years I fired around 200,000 rounds of 9mm through Glock 17's. On some days I was in schools where we shot over 1000 rounds a day, for 5 or 10 days straight.

I shot over 67,000 rounds each in 2 different Glock 17's with no problems.
After that barrels and internal parts were replaced.

I was shooting my 17's in IPSC matches 2 times a week as well.
I shot thousands of Chinese rounds and thousands of lead bulleted reloads.

Reliability was Ivory Pure, better than 99 and 44/100%.

The only part I ever broke was the sear return spring. It broke durring official Dept Qualification, it never malfunctioned and I shot 100%.
It was discovered in the after qual inspection, and replaced.

I have also shot Glocks in all the other calibres it is offered in.

IF I could not carry a 1911 in 45 ACP, my second choice for a semiauto would be a Glock.

Count me in!, (#9, 10 or ? ). I LOVE my Smiths but my 3rd Gen., (Gen. 3 1/2?), Glock 26 would be the LAST gun I would ever let go.

Hundreds, if not thousands of rounds through it and not a single hiccup, dirty or clean. I truly trust it with my life.

Oh, did I mention that it is one of the most accurate pistols or revolvers I've ever owned?

Blasphemy I tell you!!!

I too love all of my Glocks.