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How do you compare a compact muscle car to an ak variant..?.This is hilarious. To seriously compare a 1911 to a Glock is about like comparing a 69 Z-28 to a Yugo.
How do you compare a compact muscle car to an ak variant..?.This is hilarious. To seriously compare a 1911 to a Glock is about like comparing a 69 Z-28 to a Yugo.
Glock.... face it to all the 1911 fanboys, Glock is superior firepower Today. More rounds per magazine in factory form.
But gLock would probably not exist if 1911 wasnt around to begin with.
How do you compare a compact muscle car to an ak variant..?.
Not a car guy, huh?
Or maybe you're just too young to know about the infamous (and not in a good way) Yugo GV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_Koral
More appropriate would be an older Z28 to a Modern V6 sedan.
I can't imagine that the Glock industry profits come anywhere near the 1911 industry profits,
Sorry you paid to much for that custom 1911, I can shoot the same bullet with my 500 dollar GLock.. How you like them apples?
We should all have 1911's...
...hey, waitaminit..
ny32182 - very good postProbably depends on how you define "revolutionary impact", but for my money I'd have to say the Glock.
There are of course many many successive designs that use many of the same basic design concepts as the 1911, but to what degree was the 1911-specific formula adopted worldwide or even within the US following its introduction? It was big in the US military, but neither the gun nor the cartridge really took off outside the US, and domestic civilian use (police, etc) the revolver still dominated until, what, the 1980s? While it was (obviously) a tremendously significant presense and influence, the Glock initiated a worldwide paradigm shift of epic proportions. Since the time the Glock came out, what new design can be taken seriously that does NOT mimic the Glock exactly in terms of the polymer frame, light weight, striker fired/light DAO consistent type trigger, double stack...
With the Glock you can say it caused a near-instant worldwide shift in the definition of a "combat/carry" handgun. Don't know that you can say the same for the 1911, revolutionary as it might have been. "Instant" and "worldwide" being the two key words.
Probably depends on how you define "revolutionary impact", but for my money I'd have to say the Glock.
There are of course many many successive designs that use many of the same basic design concepts as the 1911, but to what degree was the 1911-specific formula adopted worldwide or even within the US following its introduction? It was big in the US military, but neither the gun nor the cartridge really took off outside the US, and domestic civilian use (police, etc) the revolver still dominated until, what, the 1980s? While it was (obviously) a tremendously significant presense and influence, the Glock initiated a worldwide paradigm shift of epic proportions. Since the time the Glock came out, what new design can be taken seriously that does NOT mimic the Glock exactly in terms of the polymer frame, light weight, striker fired/light DAO consistent type trigger, double stack...
With the Glock you can say it caused a near-instant worldwide shift in the definition of a "combat/carry" handgun. Don't know that you can say the same for the 1911, revolutionary as it might have been. "Instant" and "worldwide" being the two key words.
For the first part Glock is one of the biggest handgun manufacturers in the world andthey dont make a 1911. For the second part the patents on the 1911 have long expired and I'm sure glock would sure your pants off if you copied them and called it a glock (think s&w). If you wanted to you could build a glock and only use 3 or 4 factory parts.The Glock is great in all, but there aren't many guns out there that are inspired by the Glock. Just look at the 1911 though, you can't find a gun company that doesn't make its own version of the 1911. Also when a company makes a 1911 knock off, they call it a 1911. While when there is a Glock knock off they give it a whole new name. Also the 1911 has seen more military action. Even though almost every Police Department uses a Glock Model 22.
For the first part Glock is one of the biggest handgun manufacturers in the world andthey dont make a 1911.