"The rise of the Glock" ......Is it America's gun?

ThemGunsThough · Feb 19, 2012

My first gun, which i've kept all these years and nearly traded/sold several times, is my 3rd gen Glock 21SF. Its the first gun I would grab if i'm at home and its the main gun I take with me when I travel out of town. Never once had a failure to fire and it feeds everything i've thrown at it from herters to corbon.

Flopsweat · Feb 20, 2012

I think before we can properly answer the question it might be best to clearly define that question. What makes a gun America's Gun? Does it need to be made in America? Must it be one of the most popular? Should it embody the American spirit and ideals? Current ideals or traditional ones? Did you notice how one carefully crafted paragraph can suck all of the fun out of a thread?

But seriously, each of us seems to be operating under a different set of criteria. To answer the OP, I would personally rule out any gun not made here, which would make my answer no, the Glock is not America's gun. It's just a gun that's owned by a lot of Americans.

Asp · Feb 20, 2012

Flopsweat said:
I think before we can properly answer the question it might be best to clearly define that question. What makes a gun America's Gun? Does it need to be made in America? Must it be one of the most popular? Should it embody the American spirit and ideals? Current ideals or traditional ones? Did you notice how one carefully crafted paragraph can suck all of the fun out of a thread? But seriously, each of us seems to be operating under a different set of criteria. To answer the OP, I would personally rule out any gun not made here, which would make my answer no, the Glock is not America's gun. It's just a gun that's owned by a lot of Americans.

Read the book, you might change your mind.
Glocks have more or less entered pop culture at the same level as the SAA, of course each in their own way.

I don't own a Glock.

ds5160 · Feb 20, 2012

Asp said:
Read the book, you might change your mind.
Glocks have more or less entered pop culture at the same level as the SAA, of course each in their own way.

I don't own a Glock.

I am on the library reservation list, and looking forward to reading the book. I find it interesting to see how quickly (it seems) Glocks became a pop culture icon. Hoping that the book discusses the marketing that is behind it.

Asp · Feb 20, 2012

ds5160 said:
I am on the library reservation list, and looking forward to reading the book. I find it interesting to see how quickly (it seems) Glocks became a pop culture icon. Hoping that the book discusses the marketing that is behind it.

The book does cover some of that, and it also covers some of the things Glock (the company and person) have done to expand operations. Some of it was a bit of a surprise, it almost makes me not want to buy a Glock.

ds5160 · Feb 21, 2012

I just picked up the book at the library. I'm only a few pages in (curse you work), but I am enjoying the writing style so far.

Blitzkrieg · Feb 21, 2012

Anyone who has seen the glocktalk torture test of the G21 can only be stunned at what it has endured

Boats · Feb 22, 2012

Blitzkrieg said:
Anyone who has seen the glocktalk torture test of the G21 can only be stunned at what it has endured

I am stunned that so many people are suckered by it. Shooting the slide with RNL .22lr? Cheesy. Dropping it from airplane into a plowed agricultural plot? Cheesy. Shooting it with surface rust on it? Cheesy.

Like all Glock "torture tests" it was nothing but circus tricks.

When Ruger was chasing S&W in the police revolver market, they did the same crap with their DA revolvers that Glock reps did with the G17/22/21. Throw them. Park squad cars on them. "Torture" them. Blah blah blah.

Glocks are trash sidearms developed for untrained socialist summer soldiers and then adapted to cops, the vast majority of whom are less expert at shooting than the average weekend shooter is.

Funny how the sidearm chosen by the bean counters to the JBTs and wannabe rap gangstas becomes "America's gun." If they are "America's gun" it's not of any America I can respect.

Asp · Feb 22, 2012

Boats said:
Funny how the sidearm chosen by the bean counters to the JBTs and wannabe rap gangstas becomes "America's gun." If they are "America's gun" it's not of any America I can respect.

Funny you should bring up JBTs and gangstas, as both are mentioned in the book. I must say that even though "JBT" isn't the specific term used, "Neo-Nazi" is there in its place.