Video - The Glock - America's Gun

How did something made in Austria get the nickname "America's Gun". If any foreign gun were "America's Gun", I'd think it would be the Beretta 92.

Was this meant to be a joke?

Why would the Beretta 92 be America's gun, if it's an Italian design from an Italian company?. Agreed that it's manufactured in Maryland, but still a foreign design. Doesn't Glock have a factory in the US?.

I guess that "America's Gun" title refers to how popular they've become, and that's it.

America's gun is not the Glock, where have you been for the last 100 years going back into history??... the 1911's were back in the first world war, 2nd world war, Korean War, Vietnam war, and probably still used by some special forces...

I can understand that the "1911" supports would like to think of the 1911 as "America's Gun", however, it is not what the average person is going to pick for a self defense gun. For one, it requires too much maintenance and custom options. It also has not had any technical advancement for many years. The new ones are the same basic design as thoes made 100 years ago.

For the "non-gun" person, the term Glock has become like Xerox is to copiers. Almost a generic term for a modern auto-loader. Just pay close attention to the TV series that have guns displayed, many times the actual gun on the screen is something other than a Glock, but will be called a Glock. I have recently read an action book, that talked about the "external safty" on his 40 cal Glock. An example of the author using "Glock" as a generic gun rather than a brand name.

Glock is not the first polymer gun, but it is the gun that made the polymer guns perferred over all metal guns. It has also proven to the most used by LE organizations in the US. Certainly, many other polymer guns used ideas (and copyrights) from Glocks. Glocks have changed the way we think about guns in general.

So, in my opinion, Glock has as much claim to being the "America's Gun" as any gun has.

Tcruse said:

have recently read an action book, that talked about the "external safty" on his 40 cal Glock. An example of the author using "Glock" as a generic gun rather than a brand name.
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No, its not.

It could be an example if a gun-savvy writer referring to a Cominolli thumb safety add-on.

But most likely, it's a clueless dumb cluck trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about.

He only knows Glock is a brand name. That's why he used it.

The reason I said "if any FOREIGN gun were to be America's gun it would be the Beretta 92" is because that is what is standard-issue in the army if they deem you need a pistol.

Glock is the Toyota Corolla of guns.

PTMCCAIN said:

Well, heck, I don't know about you fellows but I really like the grip safety and thumb safeties on my Glocks.

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some people can chew gum and walk at the same time... nothing wrong with safeties.. grip safety?.. you have to grip the handgun to fire it anyway, well most people do, obviously you don't...lol

America's gun is not the Glock, where have you been for the last 100 years going back into history??... the 1911's were back in the first world war, 2nd world war, Korean War, Vietnam war, and probably still used by some special forces...

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Amen brother.

Note: This is coming from a Glock fan with several hundred thousand rounds shot through various models.

With better ergonomics (grip angle, grip size, etc.) and full ambi controls, I could easily see M&Ps becoming the next "America's Gun - Made in USA" if S&W sold them with better triggers that APEX Tactical offers (maybe S&W should consider buying APEX).

Yes I own both and like them both. With Glocks, I "learned" to accommodate them. With M&P, they accommodate me.

I will never refer to a boxy piece of unergonomic foreign plastic as America's gun.
Sorry, maybe that was a little biased.
But honestly, who could call anything but a 1911 America's gun? Who could consider any import at all America's gun? This makes me sad

Glock being America's Gun?

Much like the Dallas Cowbows being "America's team!"

Glock? BLECH! The only guns officially adopted as "state guns" are the 1911, for Utah, and the Colt SAA, for Arizona. No other political entity has adopted, like a state bird or flower, an "official" sidearm, other than issued sidearms.
I'd have to go with either of the above sidearms as America's handgun - both have done FAR more for our country than the G-rock.

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re AMERICAN GUN:
Winchester Repeating Rifle can contend
Colt 1911 has already won pistols
Colt SA six-shooter is also a strong contender for revolvers
Browning and Thompson set records for machine guns

I'm gonna go out on a limb here...
Gentlemen, I believe this was a sincere video expressing his honest opinion.

Yep. "Volkswagen. America's car."

"Corona. America's Beer."

"Pravda. America's newspaper."

Makes perfect sense to me.

The author of the book "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun", Paul M. Barrett is a managing editor of Buisness Week magazine. He is not a gun guy, not a gun writer or a shooter. He wrote the book largely as an expose of Gaston Glock and the rise of Glocks in the U.S. (a rise that is on the wane now days). He is a business writer.

Citing him as an authority on why Glocks should be called "America's Gun" seems to me an odd choice.

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Citing him as an authority on why Glocks should be called "America's Gun" seems to me an odd choice.

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Not really from a business perspective...and can you argue with his data? He doesn't seem to be wrong. He has the information to support his claims.

I don't own a Glock. Doubt I ever will either but now a Colt... I can see that being my American gun.

Not off to a great start on only your 8th post. Better keep this stuff over on gLoCk talk. If you're actually joking, and I sincerely hope you are, please ignore. But if you're joking you should be more clear or it appears to be trolling for a reaction.

It isn't even close to being America's gun.