Tag: Glock 17

Glock 17 is designed for high pressure situation. It is used by the law enforcers for its extra magazine capacity.

It’s called Glock 17 because the magazine of the pistol holds 17 bullets in each. The caliber is only 9×19mm Parabellum. It’s muzzle velocity is 375 m/s or 1230 ft/s. the effective range is around 50 m. box magazine is its feeder. It’s fixed but adjustable and is a tritium-illuminated handgun. The pistol is just 8.03 inch long with a 4.48 inch barrel.

An Austrian engineer Gaston Glock designed the pistol. He started to work on it at the age of 52 and finished his design within 1979-1982. The manufacturer is Glock Ges.m.b.H., for Glock himself is the founder of this arms industry. A great many nations and their arm forces are inspiring the productions of this pistol as it has crossed its national border long ego and is used across many continents. A damn lot of variants have been manufactured by its authority. It has gone through several stages of modifications and changes, and has its first, second, third and fourth generation models generated up to now.

It’s being used by the law enforcers of around 50 countries like Austria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Belgium, Azerbaijan, Canada, Finland, Fiji, Colombia, Denmark, Yemen, United States, France, Germany, India, Jordan, Greece… and many others. It’s used in the police, in close quarters combat, in home defenses (secretly) and in conceal carrying too.