Not everyone can afford a Glock, even a used one, but almost everbody can scrounge up $100 for a Hi-Point C9.
Posted on 01/18/2012 11:02:18 AM PST by rellimpank
We’re at Desert Hills Shooting Club near Boulder City, and Paul Barrett steps up with a Glock 17. He fires the 9 mm semi-automatic pistol 18 times in about five seconds and hits the target every time.
In that five seconds, he demonstrates why the Glock is beloved by gun enthusiasts and police officers alike. It’s fast, reliable and offers a lot of stopping power, with three times the number of rounds as the old police favorite, the Smith & Wesson .38 revolver.
Barrett, in town this week for the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT), the big firearms convention, has just published “Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun,” an entertaining and informative history — even if you’re not a gun enthusiast — of the firearm company that redefined the American handgun market beginning in the 1980s.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Not everyone can afford a Glock, even a used one, but almost everbody can scrounge up $100 for a Hi-Point C9.
for your sake I hope you are a better marksman....
it only takes one....
unless you are a poor marksman....then I can see how having 15 sub standard rounds might make the difference.
what is the most rounds a non-exotic pistol from any pistol?
Won’t own a Glock for several reasons. 1) I’ll take well-made over loose tolerances. 2) When firing, it looks like a brick with sights on it. 3) The only safety on the gun is the trigger.
It would be great to see them create a limited production run .50 caliber pistol and call it the Glock 50.
Agreed, I only own Harley's (LowRider and Sporty) and only American guns (S&W, Ruger, Browning and Mossberg)
—yep—mention “cult-like devotion” in the company of true believers in the 1911 and see what happens-—
ROFL!!!!
You actually believe that???
< snicker >
Don't act all shocked and surprised when the bad guys disagree with you.
If you need 15 rounds to get the job done you need more range time....
‘nuff said?
I won't even begin to get into the 9mm vs .45 ACP debate. We both know which round is the better.
I rest my case.
Looks like I've found an example right here on this very thread.
I read recently, that Glock makes up 65% of all handguns sold in the US. That stat surprised me.
Same here, then bought a S&W Sigma .40: lousy trigger but reliable with anything.
Then bought a Ruger SR 9. It’s thin, has a safety and a nice trigger. Then a Ruger LC9.
No Glocks in my cabinet yet.
(Assuming I can translate the question...)
A G17 with a +2 floorplate gives 20 rounds. 33 round mags are not uncommon, though kinda long for convenience.
Then again, in California, at best, 10 rounds in 5 seconds... that is unless you can eject and reload a new clip in Superman speed. Clips here are limited to 10 rounds! Thank our left wing moron government!
We’re not playing army. If you need two shots to stop the threat, you take two shots. Glock or Smith or whatever.
1. What’s so “loose” about it? maybe not tight, but does MOA accuracy suffer to any meaningful degree?
2. If that brick hits the target sufficiently hard every time, I’ll take it.
3. It’s simple. Pull trigger, goes BANG. Don’t pull trigger, doesn’t go BANG. No surprises either way. Keep it holstered when not needed. (Having had a rifle fire upon safety release due to mechanical malfunction, I’m not enamored of safeties over simplicity & “keep the booger hook off the bang switch”.)
So move already. Can carry an 11” suppressed AR around in GA if you like.
I have yet to run across a case study that called for a double-column magazine in a .45 pistol. The highest score I know of in a gunfight was five, which was achieved by a shooter using a single-column magazine of 7-round capacity. It would seem obvious that the “spray-and-pray” method we see in gunfights is both ineffective and ridiculous. According to doctrine we shoot twice (except for head shots), and this is just to take care of unforeseen errors. There is nothing wrong with having a whole lot of rounds available in one loading unless it actually reduces the efficiency of the weapon, in which case the idea should be dropped. The double-column magazine, in a major caliber pistol, does indeed reduce efficiency and affords nothing particular in return.
There is also a worldwide preoccupation with fully automatic, hand-held fire. The “spray-and-pray” concept may be held in contempt by sophisticated shooters throughout the world, but there are not many of those. Most people in the press and law enforcement seem to feel that a whole lot of shots, hit or miss, is preferable to one well-placed hit. We cognoscenti know better than that, but we are in the minority.
Col. Jeff Cooper
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