Glock Firearms

Welcome all this webpage on our website is dedicated to a comparatively new comer to the firearms industry that GLOCK firearms. Glock is an Austrian defense contractor that has been after its founder Gaston Glock. It was founded in the year 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria. Glock is known for its polymer framed pistols however other than pistols it also manufactures equipments including knives, entrenching tools, practice hand grenades and plastic clips all used in the warfare. The first pistol developed by the company was Glock 17 that was a 9 mm Luger Parabellum handgun with a 17 round capacity.

The Austrian military wanted to have a new duty pistol and hence asked vendors to bid, GLOCK who are not producing pistols at that time was also invited to bid. The contact was given to GLOCK and in this way, GLOCK was able to develop a new product as per the requirements rather than making changes in an already existing pistol. Today Glock firearms and pistols are popular with law enforcement, Army, Security, and civilians as well.

Glock became the first manufacturer to provide pistols chambered in the cartridge .40 S&W beating Smith & Wesson to the marketplace with their own cartridge. It was the same time when S&W were struggling to prove their worth in the semi automatic pistols moving forward from their identity as an revolver company. The Glock 22 has been the single most popular police sidearm in use in the US, only after Glock 17. The reason for their popularity was simple, ease of use, reliability, and low price. Today more than 50% officer use Glock pistols in US. With the use of polymer frames the glock firearms became lighter in weight, and as mentioned had highest magazine capacity in its class. More importantly the Glock pistol did not had any external safety mechanism such as safety lever, hammer, de-cocker and any other operational control. This helped the handler to focus on target only with wasting time to deactivate or activate any mechanism to make pistol ready to fire. The process of shooting became faster. As these pistold were semi automatic they provide auto loading after the shot was fired. Also by pulling the trigger, the three independent safeties of trigger safety, firing pin safety and drop safety are automatically deactivated and re-activated when the trigger is released. The GLOCK 17 pistol became the standard duty weapon for the Austrian Army with Norway being the first NATO member country to adopt the GLOCK 17 for their Army. The US arm of the company was set up in the year 1985 at Georgia. Even in the US market Glock 17 was an instant hit and got acceptance in law enforcement and civil domains. New models were introduced to meet the growing demands then, The GLOCK 18 followed. It was a subcompact sub machinegun based on the GLOCK 17, capable of semi-automatic or full-automatic firing through the use of a selector switch.

Glock firearms then produced the GLOCK 19 in 1988. The pistol was designed with a 4-inch barrel and shorter frame. Magazine capacity was of 15 rounds. It had equivalent firepower as of other full-size duty pistols. Once again Glock firearms due to its compact size and excellent firepower sold heavily to the law enforcement and civilian markets. Later the introduction of the GLOCK 17L brought an affordable competition pistol with six inch barrel and lighter trigger pull for increased accuracy. In the year 1988 Glock firearms opened a second subsidiary in Hong Kong to address the Asian and Australian markets. The production capacity was increased at Austria by opening a second factory. The next to follow were GLOCK 20 and GLOCK 21. The relatively smaller number of components made in the field maintenance and repair easy for all Glock holders. The success of .40 caliber cartridges made Glock introduce Glock 22 and Glock 23 in the year 1990, and open a subsidiary in South America as an expansion plan. This office is now located in Montevideo, Uruguay. Most of the steel components in a Glock pistol are treated with a nitriding process called Tenifer. It greatly increases the surface hardness and makes the weapon highly resistant to corrosion. Glock pistols generally are priced lower than comparable high-end service pistols from manufacturers such as SIGARMS and Heckler and Koch. The GLOCK 25 in .380 auto were introduced in 1995. This model is compared in size to the GLOCK 19, but with a simple blow-back design for improved functioning. GLOCK 26 and GLOCK 27 were specially meant for concealed carry handguns and were introduced in 1996 and were a success because of their high magazine capacity, calibers, precise accuracy and minimal size and weight. Next year the GLOCK 28 in .380 caliber was introduced. Additional models were developed in 1997, the GLOCK 29 and GLOCK 30. With the growing popularity of the new .357 auto caliber, GLOCK 31, was launched and followed by the compact GLOCK 32, and the subcompact GLOCK 33.