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Glock

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The Glock is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Austrian engineer Gaston Glock and produced by Glock GmbH. It entered service with the Austrian military and police in 1982, notable as the first commercially successful pistol line built around a polymer frame despite early skepticism about plastic construction. Its Safe Action trigger system combines a trigger safety, a firing pin safety and a drop safety rather than a manual thumb safety. By the early twenty first century Glock pistols had been adopted by national armed forces, security agencies and police departments in at least 48 countries, including the FBI and most police agencies in the United States. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Caliber
9x19mm 1
Caliber
.45 ACP 2
Caliber
.380 ACP 2
Caliber
.22 Long Rifle 2
Caliber
10mm Auto 2
Caliber
.357 SIG 2
Caliber
.40 S&W 2
Caliber
.45 GAP 2
Caliber
9×19 mm Parabellum 2
Service Status
In Service 1
Weapon Class
Semi-automatic pistol 1
Introduced Year
1982 2
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Pistol / Revolver 1
Connections

Operated By

French Armed Forces, Armed Forces and Units
Source Wikipedia: Glock
United States Marine Corps, Armed Forces and Units
Source Wikipedia: Glock
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Glock
  • Lead section, first sentence, weapon type
    a brand of polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols
  • Lead section, first paragraph, second sentence, service entry
    entered Austrian military and police service in 1982 as the P80 (later known commercially as the Glock 17)
  • caliber
    It is available in a wide variety of calibers, including 9×19mm Parabellum,
  • service-status
    service = 1982-present
  • Operated By: United States Marine Corps, Wikipedia article text
    The US Marine Corps fielded the Glock 19M, designated as the M007, to CID (Criminal Investigation Division) and Marine One personnel.
  • Operated By: French Armed Forces, Wikipedia article text
    of Corrections (Vankeinhoitolaitos) (Ministry of Justice) | style="text-align:center;"|, |- | | French Armed Forces | style="text-align:center;" ; | 17, 17 MOS, 19, 26, 34 |- | | Mainly used by GSOF and some MIA units.
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2. Wikidata: Glock
Wikidata Q739882, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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