Did Glock sponsor this movie?

Not anyworse than the Lethal Weapon movies and Riggs damned Beretta. Ugh Beretta92s!

http://www.myspace.com/53745668 I aim to misbehave!

Coca Cola outspends every other company on the face of the planet in advertising. Do you really think Coca Cola needs advertising? You don't understand advertising.

"Glock don't need any more advertisment"

They did at the time. Glocks were first imported into the U.S. in '85 and mostly collected dust on gun store shelves until the early 1990s when Glock came up with the brilliant marketing strategy to sell them to as many police departments as possible. If most cops were carrying Glocks it would give them "cred", which would drive civilian sales. So they offered their plastic guns to police departments at well below their competitor's prices (their competitors being primarily Beretta, SIG, and S&W), which they could easily do because plastic and stamped steel are both cheap as dirt. They sent out representatives to police departments with their cheap pistols and duped them with the "Safe Action" slogan. It probably went something like this:

Moritz: No one is buying our plastic pistols.

Florian: Ahem... we use the term polymer around here.

Moritz: But all plastic is a polymer, and so is rubber and wool, for that matter.

Florian: Yes, but plastic sounds cheap, while polymer sounds all sciencey and high-tech and stuff.

Moritz: Okay, fine. No one is buying our polymer pistols.

Johannes: What if we could get police departments to buy our plastic...

Florian: Polymer!

Johannes: Right, polymer. What if we could get police departments to buy our polymer pistols? That would give them cred with the general public.

Moritz: But how do we do that?

Johannes: Simple. Our plastic...

Florian: Polymer!

Johannes: Yes, yes. Our polymer pistols only cost $75 each to manufacture because injection-molded plas... er... polymer is dirt cheap, and so is stamped steel. Beretta, SIG, and Smith & Wesson have to spend way more than we do to manufacture their aluminum frame pistols. So we'll just undercut everyone else by a huge margin.

Moritz: Brilliant! But what if the police departments have safety concerns?

Johannes: We'll just refer to our trigger mechanism as Safe Action®. No one is going to call Safe Action® unsafe.

Moritz: Not bad, not bad at all. But what if they want some proof? You have to admit that a 5.5-pound trigger with only a half-inch of travel is a lot more prone to accidental discharges than a traditional 12-pound double-action trigger with an inch of travel.

Johannes: We'll do a drop test. Our plastic...

Florian: Polymer!!

Johannes: Our polymer pistols don't go off when dropped.

Moritz: Most guns don't, but what does being drop-safe have to do with anything? Nearly all accidental discharges are due to someone accidentally pulling the trigger, and our trigger-mounted passive safety does nothing to prevent that.

Johannes: I don't want to catch you saying that ever again, especially not in front of any prospective buyers. Our guns are drop-safe and they have a Safe Action® trigger, therefore they are safe!

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I own a Glock and I carried an M9 Beretta for 5 years. I wouldn't knock either one of them. But I doubt the military would start carrying Glocks. They appreciate carrying weapons in "Condition 1", basically ready to fire with safety on. I don't even know why police do it. I love the Glock, but I can't see it as a standard-issue law enforcement weapon. The lack of safety switch, and necessity to continuously carry a weapon with a round chambered seems to create more danger than necessary. I was just reading a recent gun magazine that was listing off various incidents that have already occured where a criminal grabbed a cop's Glock and immediately began shooting. The article juxtaposed this data with events where criminals grabbed a cop's gun (with a safety switch) and the criminal was not quick enough or adept enough to get the safety off with the few seconds they had.

Personally, I love the M9's safety. I can draw and fire immediately, flipping off the safety while drawing. I would never carry a Glock cocked unless I was planning on shooting.

H&K is the first firearms producer to offer a commercial product with a polymer frame.... more than a decade ahead of Glock. Tell your fiction someplace else.

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