Book Review "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun,"

[DeanC]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 65528.html

[TH3180]

I have the book haven't read it yet. I was to busy reading hunters education book.

[Pat]

I have been to Austria more times than my passport could handle. I truly love the country. If you have A chance, visit the Benedictine Abbey of Melk, on the Danube just outside of Vieniea. They are the mother house of our own St. John's Abbey.

Austrians make wonderful, handmade products.

If I could hit **** with a Glock, I would buy one.

[MrVvrroomm]

I'm on the last chapter now. Thanks TH! It's a good read.

[Pat]

Here are some pics of the Benedictine Abbey at Melk: http://www.stiftmelk.at/englisch/index.html

[gyrfalcon]

Author was interviewed on Armed American Radio: http://armedamericanradio.org/2012/01/a ... 12-hour-2/

Maybe it was just me, but the book sounded like it didn't contain much information that a firearms enthusiast wouldn't already know.

[bstrawse]

Bought this recently, it's in the to-read stack with about 40 others on my Kindle - I'll get to it eventually
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[FJ540]

Gaston wasn't a shooter - you don't say....

[Seismic Sam]

Okay, we got an Austrian curtain rod manufacturer who decides to try and make some money on a military contract, Gaston Glock gets a wild hair up his keister, and it becomes AMERICA'S gun??? Yes, it's quite popular with a lot of people, but America's gun? That honor would go to the Colt Peacemaker, or the 1911, or the 1903, or the M1. I smell marketing krap....

[Countryfried Frank]

First plastic gun? Maybe it was the VP70.

[plink]

Yes, it's quite popular with a lot of people, but America's gun? That honor would go to the Colt Peacemaker, or the 1911, or the 1903, or the M1. I smell marketing krap....

Yeah, that one. 100 years old and half the gun owning country still has a fascination with it.

[FJ540]

Yes, it's quite popular with a lot of people, but America's gun? That honor would go to the Colt Peacemaker, or the 1911, or the 1903, or the M1. I smell marketing krap....

Yeah, that one. 100 years old and half the gun owning country still has a fascination with it.

It's kind of like round wheels. When they work, you don't mess with it. Probably why glock is on version 4 and still hasn't fixed the grip angle problem.

[TH3180]

Yes, it's quite popular with a lot of people, but America's gun? That honor would go to the Colt Peacemaker, or the 1911, or the 1903, or the M1. I smell marketing krap....

Yeah, that one. 100 years old and half the gun owning country still has a fascination with it.

It's kind of like round wheels. When they work, you don't mess with it. Probably why glock is on version 4 and still hasn't fixed the grip angle problem.

I didn't know there was a grip angle problem.

[goett047]

[quote="Seismic Sam"]Yes, it's quite popular with a lot of people, but America's gun? That honor would go to the Colt Peacemaker, or the 1911, or the 1903, or the M1. I smell marketing krap....

Yeah, that one. 100 years old and half the gun owning country still has a fascination with it.

It's kind of like round wheels. When they work, you don't mess with it. Probably why glock is on version 4 and still hasn't fixed the grip angle problem.

I didn't know there was a grip angle problem.[/quote]
How's that saying go?? Its not the arrow, but the Indian.

[FJ540]

I didn't know there was a grip angle problem.

Neither does Gaston.

I liken the glock's popularity to the reason my hollywood friends started driving priuii... they're trendy and popular, thus they sell even for being vastly inferior to other market options.

Apple folks think their "stuff" is better too, and they have a whole 5% market share to prove it.


Glock is a functional weapon (unless you get one in a .40 and it KABOOM's on you), at a lower price point, and they serve a purpose. But, a gun that goes bang every time isn't that high of a standard to meet anymore, and lots of other guns do it as well or better for the same money today.