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Glock: America's Gun
How Austria's Glock became the weapon of choice for U.S. cops, Second
Amendment enthusiasts, and mass killers like the alleged Tucson gunman
Jared Loughner
RICK GERSHON/GETTY IMAGES
By Paul M. Barrett
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For all the anguish and outcry in the days after a community college
dropout named Jared Loughner allegedly sprayed a Tucson crowd with 33
bullets from a semiautomatic pistol, one response was notably absent:
any sense that America's latest shooting spree, which killed six people
and wounded 14, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, would bring
new restrictions on the right to own or carry large-capacity, rapid-fire
weapons.
The gun control debate has vanished from American politics, but it
wasn't always so invisible. Twenty years ago, when another apparently
deranged man fired a semiautomatic pistol into a crowd, killing 23
people in Killeen, Tex., politicians rushed the microphones to denounce
the weapon itself as "a death machine," as Representative John Conyers
Jr., a Michigan Democrat, put it on the floor of the House. A so-called
assault weapons ban became law three years later. That law has now
expired. Since Loughner's attack, liberal pundits, gun control
advocates, and congressional backbenchers have been talking about
instituting new controls. The voices that count, however, including
President Barack Obama and the congressional leaders in both parties,
have had nothing to say on the subject.
Their silence is just one measure of how thoroughly Gaston Glock—a
former curtain-rod maker from Austria whose company manufactured the
pistols used in Tucson and Killeen—has managed to dominate not just the
American handgun market, but America's gun consciousness. Before Glock
arrived on the scene in the mid-1980s, the U.S. was a revolver culture,
a place where most handguns fired five or six shots at a measured pace,
then needed to be reloaded one bullet at a time. With its large
ammunition capacity, quick reloading, light trigger pull, and utter
reliability, the Glock was hugely innovative—and an instant hit with
police and civilians alike. Headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria,
the company says it now commands 65 percent of the American law
enforcement market, including the FBI and Drug Enforcement
Administration. It also controls a healthy share of the overall $1
billion U.S. handgun market, according to analysis of production and
excise tax data. (Precise figures aren't available because Glock and
several large rivals, including Beretta and Sig Sauer, are privately
held.)
With all those customers and that visibility, it's no surprise that the
Glock has also been the gun of choice for some prolific psychopaths.
Byran Uyesugi used a Glock 17 to kill seven people at a Xerox (XRX)
office in Honolulu in 1999. Seung-Hui Cho, who murdered 32 at Virginia
Tech in 2007 before killing himself, used the same Glock 19 model that
Loughner is accused of firing in Tucson. Steven Kazmierczak packed a
Glock 17 when he shot 21 people, killing five, at Northern Illinois
University in 2008.
The smooth-firing Glock did not cause these massacres any more than it
holds up convenience stores. But when outfitted with an extra-large
magazine, it can raise the body count. The shooters in Arizona,
Illinois, Virginia, Hawaii, and Texas could not have inflicted so many
casualties so quickly had they been armed with old-fashioned revolvers.
In its 2010 catalog, the manufacturer boasts that while the Glock 19 is
"comparable in size and weight to the small .38 revolvers it has
replaced," the pistol "is significantly more powerful with greater
firepower and is much easier to shoot fast and true."
The Tucson gunman demonstrated those qualities all too vividly. Loughner
is said to have emptied his 33-round clip in a minute or two, a feat
requiring no special skill. (Glock does not sell magazines of that size
to civilians, but some of its guns can accommodate them. The model 19
comes with a standard 15-round clip.) Loughner was wrestled to the
ground by onlookers only when he paused to insert a fresh magazine. If
he had been forced to reload sooner, the odds are good there would be
fewer victims. Glock executives did not respond to multiple requests for
comment.
go to the website for much more | k**0
发帖数: 19737 | | C*******r
发帖数: 10345 | | f********m
发帖数: 8397 | 4 免费广告呀。里面讲glock是如何把美国人对于左轮的热爱给转移过来的是很有趣。
【在 C*******r 的大作中提到】
: 越骂卖得越火。俺看痢膊肉们要蛋腚。
| G******U
发帖数: 4211 | 5 想多杀人还不容易，多带几把左轮不就行了吗？能拿进去一把glock的地方
也能拿三把左轮进去，连弹夹都不用换，拔出来就打。
【在 f********m 的大作中提到】
: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_04/b42120521852
: Glock: America's Gun
: How Austria's Glock became the weapon of choice for U.S. cops, Second
: Amendment enthusiasts, and mass killers like the alleged Tucson gunman
: Jared Loughner
: RICK GERSHON/GETTY IMAGES
: By Paul M. Barrett
: THIS ISSUE
: January 17, 2011
: The Killing Machine
| C*******d
发帖数: 15836 | 6 一般的Glock 17 和 19可容弹１５－１７发，与３个左轮类似。而Glock的３１发弹夹
是左轮无法比拟的。再加上Glock上弹速度远块于左轮，所以三个左轮都比不过一个
Glock。能带三把左轮还不如带三把Glock。
【在 G******U 的大作中提到】
: 想多杀人还不容易，多带几把左轮不就行了吗？能拿进去一把glock的地方
: 也能拿三把左轮进去，连弹夹都不用换，拔出来就打。
| b******o
发帖数: 5644 | | k**********i
发帖数: 8706 | 8 3代的很便宜
【在 b******o 的大作中提到】
: 说的我都想搞把Glock看看怎么好。
| H****r
发帖数: 16240 | 9 太长了，谁给总结一下吧
左轮应该是从1911军用以后开始退出统治地位，然后在警界式微，是从wonder 9s崛起
之后吧？
【在 f********m 的大作中提到】
: 免费广告呀。里面讲glock是如何把美国人对于左轮的热爱给转移过来的是很有趣。
| f**s
发帖数: 2225 | 10 me too
打算下一把就上哥牢靠19了,感觉就是一把放车里防身的枪
【在 b******o 的大作中提到】
: 说的我都想搞把Glock看看怎么好。
| H****r
发帖数: 16240 | 11 格洛克放车里我还是嫌贵
最好是一把200块钱左右的
要是左轮就更了
……或者，一把Draco放座位底下……
这个比glok还便宜还猛吧？
【在 f**s 的大作中提到】
: me too
: 打算下一把就上哥牢靠19了,感觉就是一把放车里防身的枪
| C*******r
发帖数: 10345 | 12 鸡洛克比车里的小零件都要便宜吧？不行可以买个police trade in的glock 19， 23什
么的，四百块都不要。再不行，就放个90块的拿肝左轮吧。
【在 H****r 的大作中提到】
: 格洛克放车里我还是嫌贵
: 最好是一把200块钱左右的
: 要是左轮就更了
: ……或者，一把Draco放座位底下……
: 这个比glok还便宜还猛吧？
| f********m
发帖数: 8397 | 13 总结就没意思了。还有讲禁止大弹夹造成了大弹夹的疯卖也黑有意思
【在 H****r 的大作中提到】
: 太长了，谁给总结一下吧
: 左轮应该是从1911军用以后开始退出统治地位，然后在警界式微，是从wonder 9s崛起
: 之后吧？
| f********m
发帖数: 8397 | 14 合法不？平时不用的枪还是左轮最牢靠，不会卡壳
【在 f**s 的大作中提到】
: me too
: 打算下一把就上哥牢靠19了,感觉就是一把放车里防身的枪
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