glock not "detectable" on X Ray!!!??

I heard somewhere that all guns have to be made with a certan about of electormites? or something like that, thus making it go off in a metal detector

I heard that once the Glock is through the scanners it can be used to shoot airliners and kindergardens and endangered species and bring down the power grid.

@Toivo: but we ARE "gun nuts with an agenda" and our agenda is to debunk any of the BS the mass media throws our way.

You could do it, the materials have advanced enough that you could make a simple gun that was able to pass a SIMPLE metal detector, but X ray and the new stuff would still get you. If nothing else, it's kinda hard to hide/disguise bullets.

+1 @ Shadow 7D

Ceramics...plastics...possible now for no metal at all in the Gun or the Cartridges/Bullets...could have proprietaty Cartridges...but likely limited to relatively low pressures unless heavy.

These would pass Metal Detectors...and as for X-Ray, it'd all depend.

I imagine they exist but have not come across any info.

@Oyeboten: We all know the government likes to keep those kind of secrets out of public hands.

I'm pretty sure that I read something that stated the Glock was 80% Steel by weight, and has enough Barium in the trigger alone to set off detectors.

IN THEORY:

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I've heard of some rumors of the Israeli's building a single shot smoothbore out of nothing but carbon fiber but I have no details on it.

wonder what rounds it would fire ...

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IF the Israelis (or the Chinese or Iranians or anyone else) did develop a single shot assassination weapon made of carbon fiber, it would more than likely fire some kind of non-metallic projectile (nylon, plastic?) and use some form of caseless powder.

OK?

Didn't the Chinese make their early cannon barrels out of bamboo?

Material doesn't even matter anymore; the scanners they have now show everything, no matter what it's made of . . . if you have a turkey sandwich in your briefcase, it'll show the lettuce and tomato. Not everyone has the latest version of scanners, though, but it'd still be pretty stupid to try anything. The weakest link in security is still the human factor, though.

Most of the weight of a Glock is steel.

Detectable by metal detectors.

A plain Glock frame: no slide, no barrel, no firing mechaism, no metal parts, will pass a metal detector. Without a slide, barrel and firing mechanism, it is useless as a weapon. Jack Anderson made a BFD out of slipping a stripped Glock frame past the metal detector at Congress, which just proved to me he was a BSing SOB.

When Anderson made a big publicity splash sneaking the polymer frame past the metal detectors NRA persuaded all manufacturers of "plastic" guns to include barium in the polymer mix do they would show up as fully delineated guns on Xray.

The idea that a plastic frame with no barrel, etc., can slip past a metal detector is dumb. A toothbrush with a sharpened handle can slip past a metal detector too and is a deadlier weapon than the plastic frame of a Glock (or any other polymer frame gun).

The media lie constantly to promote gun control, and true believers in gun control do not care about the truth. They have constantly repeated the same lies since the 1960s because of their agenda.

Some imbecile in usenet once claimed to me that you could still get the whole thing through airport screening by "disguising the slide as a padlock and the barrel as a pen".

Stupid people make me tired.

I'm pretty sure its only the Glock 7 that can't be picked up on an X-ray. However, it's pretty expensive seeing as it costs as much as Dennis Franz makes in an entire month.

Yes, many people still believe the "invisible Glock" legend.

They hear it from the media, and when you try to set them straight, they don't believe you because you're a "gun nut" with "an agenda."

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It's not that I have an agenda. It's that I'm an "amateur" while the clown they saw on TV is an "expert".

(If only I had a nickle for every error I've seen the TV "experts" propagate.)

@Gyvel: The HK G11 used caseless ammunition and it was able to put 3 rounds down rage before you felt the recoil from the first.

I know a lot of people that believe this...

http://www.mississippiautoarms.com/glock-33-round-magazine-for-glock-7-19-and-26-p-577.html

There must be a Glock 7, I can buy a magazine for it here.

Shawn

When you realize that most gun control is based on "research" of the probity of an urban legend or old wive's tale, is it any wonder that Center for Disease Control 2003 or National Academy of Sciences 2004 could find no impact of gun control on the real world?

Absolutely a glock is indetectable on the x-ray, if the operator is lazy/incompetent/overworked/distracted.

Periodically the federal government tests security at airports and federal buildings. They are forever sneaking in full-size handguns, rifles, kabar knives.

If the anti-gunners think Glocks are so evil, why don't they object so many police agencies issuing Hijacker Specials to their police officers. Why would a policeman need a Plastic Hijacker Special, the only use for which is to hijack airliners (which can be shot down by a .50 cal sniper rifle that can be bought on the internet for $29.95 -- the asking price for one CVA Bobcat advertised in a gun auction website).

@Gyvel: The HK G11 used caseless ammunition and it was able to put 3 rounds down rage before you felt the recoil from the first

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Yes, I've read quite a bit about it, and there's also the caseless Daisy VL. Point being, a non-metallic projectile coupled with caseless ammo and , most likely, some form of electric ignition in a carbon fiber gun would be a heckuva weapon that could be easily smuggled past metal detectors.

To be honest, the technologies already exist; I guess it's just a matter of who needs to put it all together. LOL

Your thinking of the Glock 007.

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