MR> ->    The Glock pistols are all (with the possible exception of the 18,
 MR> -> is
 MR> -> never seen over here) Double Action Only, striker-fired pistols.  Tha
 MR> -> they have no hammer, have the same trigger stroke for each firint cyc
 MR> -> cannot be manually cocked as one would cock a 1911.
 MR> I've seen and fired a Glock 30, and a guy around the way has one of
 MR> those Glock 18s, he bought it from someone off the street. Full
 MR> automatic handguns in my oppion are useless. 
BR> Absent proper training they are hard to use well - but I
A full auto HANDGUN would be IMPOSSIBLE to use well.
If the weight was low enough to make it firable one
handed (hence the term HANDgun) the rate of fire would
be so high the recoil would make it uncontrollable.  To
reduce the rate of fire the slide would have to be so
heavy to make it to heavy to carry.
BR> seriously doubg  they'd be built if there weren't a
BR> perceived need, in the form of a market.  Around here, all
They were designed and produced at the request of the
pentagon.  Like a lot of weapon designs it was thought
up by someone who didn't really know what he was doing.
It was thought that the special ops types could use it.
Needless to say NOBODY wanted it.
BR> we have for on-duty is 17 and 19, with a few folks that have
BR>  bought their own 26 (which I intend to do as soon as I run
BR> across the dougn  without something breaking that costs a
I know that feeling.  I've been trying to save up for a
nice stainless steel 4" double action 45 Long Colt
revolver.  But so far it has turned into a new washer
and then into a new water heater then into an ER visit
now it has turned into a dental work for the wife and
daughter.
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
--- timEd-B11
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