The polymer-framed pistol that took over the world.
Glock, founded in Austria in the early 1980s, made the striker-fired polymer pistol the global standard for police and sport. Its Safe Action trigger and dead-simple design define the modern handgun.
| Founded | 1963 |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Gaston Glock |
| Headquarters | Deutsch-Wagram, Austria |
| Country | Austria |
Glock (German: [ˈglɔk]; stylized as GLOCK) is a brand of polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols (as well as some rifles and one machine pistol) designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock GmbH. The firearm, designed by company founder Gaston Glock (1929–2023), entered Austrian military and police service in 1982 as the P80 (later known commercially as the Glock 17) after outperforming established competitors in reliability and safety tests. Despite initial market resistance due to its "plastic" construction, the Glock became the first commercially successful line of pistols with a polymer frame. The weapon uses the company's proprietary "Safe Action" system, which consists of three independent internal safety mechanisms: the trigger safety, the firing pin safety, and the drop safety. These mechanisms prevent accidental discharge without an ex
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