Back in 1985 when the Glock Model 17 9mm “came on the scene” in America, a great many folks simply weren’t impressed. When the handgun was adopted by the Washington Metropolitan Police ...

The less there is to break or go wrong the more reliable the weapon is. Since the introduction of the original Glock Model 17 9mm, Glock has made several design improvements.

Over the past hundred years there have been two guns that have defined semiautomatic pistols in the United States. The Colt M1911A1, now popularly known as the 1911, and the Glock 17, which were ...

Gaston Glock, who has died aged 94, ranked with Samuel Colt and Mikhail Kalashnikov as the inventor of an epoch-making firearm with which, in the 1980s, his name became synonymous; Glock pistols ...