Glock

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Glock GmbH is a weapons and survival tools manufacturer founded by Gaston Glock in 1963 and headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. The company is most famous for its range of safe action pistols, and also makes survival knives and entrenching tools.


Pistols

Glock's line of pistols were first developed in the early 1980s to Walther P38 service pistol in the Austrian army. Glock pistols have a unique safe action mechanism and, unlike most handguns, do not have any external safety on/off lever. No external safety lever means that there is no risk of the shooter either forgetting or not realizing that the safety is on in an emergency situation. The Glock handguns are prevented from being fired accidentally by the user by a triple safety system, dubbed the safe action trigger by the manufacturer. The safe action mechanism includes a drop safety which prevents the handgun from firing if dropped.

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