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unusual facts about Glock-17



.224 Boz

In early 1999 .224 BOZ was fired in modified 10mm MP5 and 10mm Glock taking part in a head to head trial at DERA Fort Halstead (UK Defence Testing Establishment) against the NATO CRISAT specification target of layered titanium and Kevlar armour.

2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting

At around 17:40 EET, Vlădan entered the hairdressing salon Perla (English language: Pearl), located at the intersection between Dorobanti and Iancu de Hunedoara Blvd. in Bucharest, armed with a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic pistol with a magazine capacity of 19 rounds.

Albert Glock

Albert Glock was an Associate Editor of Walid Khalidi's encyclopedia of the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948, 'All That Remains'.

Bill Maas

On September 5, 2007, Maas was questioned and released following an incident at Kansas City International Airport in which authorities reportedly found a loaded 9mm Glock in a bag brought by the former football player to the airport before attempting to board a plane.

Dakota Meyer

A year after the Battle of Ganjgal, after drinking at a friend's house, Meyer attempted to commit suicide using a Glock pistol kept in his truck's glove compartment.

Glock knife

The Glock knife is a military field knife product line designed and produced by Glock Ges.m.b.H., located in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria.

Glock: The Rise of America's Gun

Glock: The Rise of America's Gun is a 320-page book written by Paul M. Barrett and published by Broadway Books.

Hoonah Police Department

Officers carry a Glock .40 caliber automatic pistol, Binelli .12 gauge automatic shotgun, Ruger Mini-14 .223 rifle, Taser, telescopic baton and OC pepper spray.

Indian Revenue Service

IRS officers handling sensitive postings are issued a Glock Model 22 pistol or a Glock 23 in .40

IRS Criminal Investigation Division

Special Agents are trained in the use of, and issued, the Glock handguns as sidearms.

Larry Alan Burns

Besides the 31-round magazine Loughner used in his Glock, Burns cited as examples the 100-round drum allegedly used by James Eagan Holmes in the 2012 Aurora shooting and the 30-round magazine used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Nylon 6

It can also be used in gun frames, such as those used by Glock, which are made with a composite of Nylon 6 and other polymers.

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Glock, Charles Y. (Dec, 2000), "Remembrances of Things Past: SSSR's Formative Years," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol.

Tha Dogg Pound

In response Layzie Bone shot back on the track "Shotz to tha Double Glock" with the line "Dogg Pound hoes it's on." "Krayzie Bone says "Gotta find these 'Row Hoes" in the song "Mo' Murda" off the East 99 album. The feud ended when Snoop Dogg and Kurupt were featured on Krayzie Bone's album Thug Mentality 1999 in the song "The War Iz On.

The Broken Window

Entertainment Weekly reviewed the book saying "Quadriplegic forensics whiz Lincoln Rhyme and his Glock-toting girlfriend, Amelia Sachs, track a serial killer who uses an all-knowing computer database to frame fall guys. Movie Pitch: Ironside meets CSI and Enemy of the State. Bottom Line: Rhyme still intrigues in his eighth outing, while Deaver's scarily believable depiction of identity theft in a total-surveillance society stokes our paranoia. A -."

TKB-506

The safety mechanism of Glock-17 and GSh-18 pistols was first implemented in TKB-506A by, but Stretchkin who did not consider it important and did not apply for a patent.


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