Posted on 08/10/2025 5:20:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There are inventors who get it right and those who copy their inventions. Apple, Tesla and Glock are among those that got it right. I bought my first Glock—a G19—in the late 80s when they first became available in America and I haven’t looked back. Glock’s first handgun was the G17, a full-sized duty handgun with 17 round magazine capacity. Glock’s numbering scheme is based on its patent numbers. The 17 was Glock’s first handgun patent. The G18 is a G17 capable of full auto fire.
Mandatory disclosure: I am not among those who think a single brand or model of firearm is superior to all others and anyone thinking otherwise is mentally defective. I’ve owned, and still own, guns made by most of the major manufacturers and enjoy them.
The G17 was invented by Gaston Glock, who wanted to enter a handgun in an upcoming Austrian Army competition. He had never made a firearm before but knew polymers and had supplied the army with entrenching tools and knives. He hired gun savvy advisors and set to work, having no idea what was impossible or shouldn’t be done. Three months later he had a working prototype. That’s lightning fast for firearm development.
Among Glock’s innovations was the use of a polymer frame (yes, I know about the H&K VP-70 and Remington’s Nylon 66), incorporating steel only where necessary, such as on the four, short slide rails molded into the polymer frame. This innovation also allowed substantially larger magazine capacity compared to metal guns of the same general size. The walls of the grip/magazine well could be relatively thin, and no grip panels were required, allowing most people to handle the weapons comfortably.
Graphic: Top to bottom: G17, G19, G43X, Author
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"9mm: Underpowered and Overrated"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55_mFAOvRA
"Real Men Don't Carry Pocket Pistols"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLKrkmSToo
My sister (delicate-looking, but can out-shoot many of the dudes at the range we go to) dreams of the day someone invents a derringer with stopping power equivalent to a 50-cal. 😁
It's a single shot, and .50 Action Express instead of .50 BMG but Bond Arms makes a .50 cal:
https://www.bondarms.com/Cyclops-50AE-Thumper-Satin-Package-P8606.aspx
Many thanks, honest to God I did not know that! She’s said for a while that she’d be willing to put a second mortgage on her house to find something like that.
After he had exited his car, Cardwell [the public servant] went to remove his [the Citizen's] firearm, but while she was trying to take the gun, it discharged and Arrington [the Citizen] was shot in his upper thigh.
There are two problems here:
1) The public servant, Cardwell, is an idiot and incompetent at handling firearms.
2) The public servant, Cardwell, was "uncomfortable" with a Citizen being armed. That irrational fear on the part of public servants must be stamped out like the plague that it is. Attention public servants: We the People are armed. Get used to it.
Yikes!
Just because something *can* be done, does not mean that it *should*.
I guess if you're in bear country but don't want to carry a full size .44 magnum, .454, .480 Ruger, or .500 S&W magnum, a single shot .50 AE would work. I've seen where the original retail was $700+ but now see them below $450.
You can buy .50 AE from 300 grains to 460 grains. The 460 grains is subsonic.
I suspect most shooters who buy one for a conversation piece would load their own ammo at much lower power.
I guess if you’re in bear country but don’t want to carry a full size .44 magnum, .454, .480 Ruger, or .500 S&W magnum, a single shot .50 AE would work.
If they have to use it, they had better pray they don’t miss the mark with that one shot. Just saying.
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