Glock- the ultimate power gun- history

[Music] Oh a dozen Glocks most of them are modelled 20s and 10 millimeters because I rotate them because I wear them out so much and also some model 29 is the smaller Glock 10 millimeter and I also have a Glock 40 out of 26 and the 27 and 9 millimeter it's they're all great guns and the fact that law enforcement has chosen them as their carry gun for so many years in such numbers is a great testimony that's a great great firearm with apologies to mrs. Robinson it turns out the future really is in plastics at least when it comes to handgun design in the early 1980s gaston Glock who knew nothing about firearms but was an expert in advanced synthetic polymers assembled a group of experts to help him create the ideal military handgun the result of that meeting was ultimately the Glock which virtually overnight became the single best-selling pistol in history the funny thing about Glock is it's become a universal term a generic term on the evening news when you see a gun flash up for whatever reason it's usually a clock now but Gaston Glock wasn't a gun guy I mean he was a manufacturer he dealt in plastics he made things out of moist goo that's what he did furniture parts whatever makes it helvin entrenching tool by the way well guessed on black wasn't a pistol designer he was he knew a lot about Palmers the synthetic polymer so he wasn't bound by the rules that everyone else is bound by and so he broke all the rules I'll tell you I spent 35 years from entrepreneur and somebody that somebody that that builds stuff and employs people and creates jobs and makes the economy go it's my hero John M browning at Henry Ford Trump and guests on Glock Gaston Glock who designed it as some sort of mechanical genius he took a lot of designs that existed he fixed all of the problems with those guns and you know put him in this gun and made it something the thing that brought Gaston Glock into the firearms business was a 1980 Austrian military contract and he thought that well you know my technology I think I could do that and he really was a leader in polymer technology and not just polymer technology people been making stuff out of plastic for a long time but it's it's figuring out how to put the plastic in the metal together and having them stay together and so he talked to some other manufacturers other manufacturers approached him obviously military pistol contract 17,000 units that's that's worth going after what is a gun it's an elegant solution to a very basic engineering and physics problem you know you've got you've got to contain so much volatile pressure for a certain amount of time you've got to be able to manufacture it you've got to be able to train people to use it it's got to be reliable it's got to be reasonably lightweight there's a whole litany of attributes that it has to have to actually be a potential gun and basically after talking to other people this matter-of-fact Gaston clock was thrown out of the offices of another German gun maker who just thought they were we don't want anything to do with this it's an abomination if your plants dedicated to forging something and machining it out and in hand polishing it that's what you do anybody that comes up with the idea of a polymer frame pistol into an operation like that it's going to be laughed out so it's got to be somebody from the outside that comes in with an idea that if sure it's a new idea it would never fly with an established company but guess what it can fly with the new company that has nothing to lose and everything to gain gun people tend to be locked in too much of the time what's gone before and this this man came out of the woodwork with advanced polar inexpensive machining and in production methods he eventually decided to go after it himself and for a guy who didn't know anything about guns he came up with a pretty good gun it goes to show that if you don't have any preconceived notions of what you're going to build and you're a really smart designer and you understand the product you're working with that's pretty amazing I mean it took the world of it knocked the firearms world on its ear that thing was something everyone knew that three things were certain to fail in the American arms marketplace plastic parts a European background and semi-auto pistols in general that was especially true in law enforcement where blue steel wood grips and an American revolver ruled Glock wasn't the first polymer-framed pistol that was the H&K vp70 nor the first semi-automatic pistol for law enforcement that was the Smith & Wesson Model 39 but Glock was the first to gain widespread acceptance on both counts here's a look at why now I love the look of many guns of most guns I hate the look of the Glock because it's so dull it's so uninteresting there used to be a subsidiary Disney cartoon character he was Donald Duck's uncle and he was Uncle Scrooge there was a scourge and uncle Scrooge's life and the scourge was the Beagle boys when they drew the guns that the Beagle boys carried in the early 50s I swear they were Glock 17 the first Glock I saw belonged to a buddy of mine who was a state narcotics agent named Dave Englehart and he got one and thought it was wonderful I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life we went through a hostage negotiation seminar together a tactical hostage thing the FBI put on and he carried that gun and cleaned the course with it I mean it was really an amazing gun I think he had the first one in the state of Iowa when the Glock first came out I'd be the first to tell you I was not terribly enamored with the gun remember I got one of the real early still habit and I open up the box and go home I God Americans will never buy this they want blue GT and walnut don't worry about this guy who says that car has got to be sexy it's got to get you from here to there I think block would tell you that no this gun isn't made to be sexy it's a tool and it's just about the most effective tool ever made for its purpose conventional shooters guys who like blue steel and walnut wood would make fun of Glocks as tupperware guns you know the dishwasher safe you know don't put it in the microwave that sort of thing and the funny thing about Glock is one of the early pistol boxes literally you ripped it open like a Tupperware container so a friend of mine threw his box away he just didn't want it so I took it I ground the log out of it and it as my lunch box I kept sandwiches in it it was perfect brand ala workshop sheesh mr. Park and but I've had a Glock for years but I read articles and tests for probably a year or two before I could bring myself to buy a plastic gun I don't know how he conceived that safe action firing system in the gun it's almost something that somebody from some other entity having to do with mechanical engineering would have come up with the recoil is being absorbed by the frame by its flexing the frame definitely flexes fire and when the slide comes back and stops the frame does its thing which is absorbing energy if you have the name one thing it's the guns run if they're reliable having a pistol that runs is probably the best benefit that anybody could have because you know you want and when you pull the trigger you want it to go bang once you master the trigger it's very easy to manipulate the trigger well it's a gun that's that that you can shoot very well it's the choice of a lot of professionals the 1911 started out with a 45 then scaled down to handle everything down a 9-millimeter Glock went the other way they started with a 9-millimeter and with a high capacity and then diminished capacity as they went up in power factor I'm not an engineer but I know that you can take a 9-millimeter gun and you can put 40 caliber magazine and I know the difference between thirty thirty thousand psi and thirty-nine thousand psi so you have to make all the other appropriate changes to allow for four before them and and I think they've done that very well the first block the g17 was chambered for the 9 millimeter nato cartridge but the american market quickly pushed Glock to expand the line first to 40 Smith & Wesson the most common American law enforcement caliber then the American classic 45 ACP coming up Glock becomes the standard amazingly and before American companies were completely sure what was happening Glock became the number-one law enforcement handgun and the day of the police 38 revolver came to a decisive close but the civilian handgun market embraced the Glock just as enthusiastically there is horrible misconceptions about it I mean it was you know the first one of the first guns on the market with the polymer frame everybody said it was something that could go through metal detectors in airports all sudden people were in a frenzy about whether it's safe to fly me but that slide the barrel I'm common sense you know you don't have a anything but a steel barrel and a gun to get it to actually work more than once it was a time that was right for that gun you had Carl Walter as their first marketing guy and he's the guy who set the standard he's the guy that was in on that Glock perfection and and and setting block apart and American law enforcement started buying a lot of clocks what does a law-enforcement community want well you think about training from it how do you train a bunch of cops it's an excruciating thing to train a bunch of people try to train them on a 1911 a1 TV shooting their foot ok oh my gosh now give me a safe pistol and easy pistol to train people with in the military we can train a GI on a 92 because we've got them for a whole bunch of time but a cop needs to be out on the street and you don't have as much time to train a cop how to use a gun as the GIS get when they're in training so the [ __ ] pistol is an easier pistol train with they raised the bar in terms of expectations in terms of reliability and functionality prior to that we were willing to live we we had malfunction drills as part of it because if you want a really reliable gun everybody knew you carried a sec shot revolver that you can pull the trigger again block changed that with its with its pistol so you have to take these guys and you have to train them how to use this pestle properly when you only have one trigger pull to master and no safeties to master it makes the law-enforcement trainers job much easier it's more simple I mean there is no thumb safety to take off there's nothing to do there's no manual alarms pull it out point it depress the trigger when you're on target it's brutally simple brutally reliable I probably got to use the most my training business and whatever I do either go out for anything else reason something it's a go off the world make no mistake anywhere you go in this plan during the counter clock you have a price advantage and you have all these features and benefits that are good for the market what it's going to happen and if you're smart like Glock was you'll spend a lot of money on promotion if I were running for president of the United States I would want the marketing guys out of the Glock operation back then to run my political campaign because they did it masterfully in many ways the Glock is the first of what we might think of as the modern pistol machine rather than hand fitted easy to manufacture and amazingly reliable with law enforcement and much of the civilian market in its pocket block began releasing new models filling every available niche the most recent the so-called generation fours introduced a dual recoil spring system that made an already light recoiling gun even easier to shoot with Glock the marketing campaign that they undertook the the way they sell their product is again changed the the rules of the game you know they came out with a gun that changed the rules of the game as far as it's designed and functioning its reliability with their marketing and their sales program then also was revolutionary it really has changed models so whether you're shooting a subcompact a compact or full-size that grip feels the same it's just a matter of how long that grip is underneath you if you buy this Gen 4 Glock the the extra grips don't make it smaller they make it bigger and it's no it's this the frame is the standard SF small frame that they came out with a few years ago if I really love a Glock I'll sign it away and have someone do a grip reproduction you know I just find the grip itself is very uncomfortable an old man Glock he doesn't care what I think he hates me for not accepting his grip if you treat your gun the way you take care of your lawnmower buy a Glock because you can just about there's one gun you don't have to clean a lude well and you can pretty much treat it pretty crappy in the gun to work be honestly it's a great gun even though I'm a hardcore nice and ready to love a night to have a pistol and if I had to somebody said can you can only own one handgun only one you know what I probably say give me a Glock 17 blocks are great guns they work when you need them to work and and that's what counts when it comes down brass tacks is this going to work the world is littered with the with the bleaching bones of firearms companies that just didn't get there because they didn't have a product that actually worked well the Patent Office is full of paper on firearms inventions and patents and she's never got where they needed to go because it just weren't practical with a Glock that's different and it works it's practical personally I I I would like the Chiefs and some sex appeal thrown into the mix and they made have a classic back in 1981 Gaston Glock overheard two Colonels in the Austrian army discussing that no one made the handgun they really needed one Glock offered to make one they left Adam no one is laughing no for much of the world bloc has become synonymous with pistol

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Length: 17min 17sec (1037 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 25 2018