I was in a gun shop near Meadville, PA, about 1997. The owner of the shop was telling me about a visit he had from a Glock salesman. The guy had a test gun with him. They tied the Glock by the trigger guard to the bumper of a pickup truck and dragged it around on the road and through the gravel driveway. Ran over it. Jumped up and down on it. Threw it up in the air and hit it with a baseball bat.
And it still worked.
Hey! I went to school in Meadeville back in the late 70's.
My personal favorite wass seeing a guy load a Glock with primer-only blank rounds - no powder, no bullet - and hammer nails with it.
That is the truth!
You can't very well do that to a Beretta 92 9mm or a SIG much less a 1911 style pistol.
Did anyone know you can fire a 9mm Glock underwater?
And why do gangstas prefer the 9mm Glock? last I recall a procedure of drilling in the right spot obn the slide and inserting a rollpin turns it into a full auto.
The real full auto Glock is the model 18. Glocks to me are works of art for what they were designed to do, they are similar to the AK47 in regards of a simplistic easy to maintain weapon that is very reliable. I cannot say the same of more refined looking pieces such as a Kimber, Desert Eagle or such that are so precise they fail the mudbath test. Glocks can work without jamming after severe firing of hundreds of rounds if not more even. FWIW the "plastic" is really a tough engineered material and takes quite a severe beating.
Personally I would love to have a beautiful custom Kimber but realistically I have found I would rather carry my 10mm Glock with me and with my custom loads in the brush as a good black bear pistol, but then again if I knew a brown bear was around here in Alaska I would carry my Ruger Redhawk .44magnum.