John Moses Browning’s gun fact dump

The Glock 46. The one Glock (excluding the 44) that doesn’t share the same internal mechanisms as the others. It is a rotating barrel design, as you may have seen in guns like the Beretta Px4, GSH-18, and some 5.7x28 designs, such as the S&W M&P 5.7. It exists because German police requirements were for a gun that didn’t require a trigger pull to field strip, and a different trigger pull. The Glock 46 supposedly has a much longer trigger pull than usual. The rotating barrel, however, was apparently not required, and is unclear why Glock did that. It seems to field strip, this knob in the place of the backplate needs to be turned, and the magazine removed. Due to its unique takedown system, the usual Glock takedown levers are absent, leaving a smooth side. It seems to be the size of a Glock 19, with some photos showing extended magazines.

likely one of, if not THE first/earliest Glock prototypes. Notice how it looks nothing like current Glocks, indication this was more of a test, just throwing shit out there and seeing what works type of gun. Uses a takedown lever I am not familiar with, however the circular shape on the right side reminds me of P22X series SIG or S&W M&P. I can only seem to find two photos of this prototype (3 if you include the cropped and uncropped image of Katherine Glock holding it). Also notice how rough it looks around the takedown lever and beaver tail, further indication it being an early test prototype. Really the only thing similar to that of a modern Glock on it is the hooked shape of the trigger guard. I’m running out of ideas for this thread. 

Glock 26c 1-of-1 prototype. The Glock 26 was invented because of the 1994 gay gun ban whatever it was called, banning magazines over 10 rounds. Glock’s whole thing was high capacity, so limiting to 10 rounds meant there was really no point to the extra size of the 17 and 19, at least to the people conceal carrying, so Glock created the 26. The 26c didn’t make it however because the compensating cuts caused jams and intense, blinding fireballs with the 3.6” barrel. 

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The most Auraful handgun ever 

Photo of two Glock 19 Gen 1 prototypes. Apparently the story goes the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control wanted smaller versions of the G17, but the didn’t want to wait for Glock’s Gen 2. Glock already had the compact 4” barrel slides made, but they were yet to finish the compact frame molds, so they just cut down G17 frames and hand finished them. Supposedly at their highest, only 56 of these prototypes existed, but since at the time, Glock only viewed them as a stopgap, a creation out of pure necessity, any G19 Gen 1 prototypes that were sent back to Glock after this period were destroyed. The only surviving ones were due to guns given to people or bought back by officers, resulting in only 20-25 examples existing today.

 Only photos I can seem to find of the Glock 23 MHS. You may know of the 19MHS, which of course eventually evolved into the 19x (pretty much 45 aswell, just the black version). The 23 MHS is just the 19 MHS/X just in .40 S&W. The US military MHS trials to replace the XM9 trial’s Beretta M9 was open caliber, so Glock entered with both 9mm and .40 S&W. Supposedly they entered with the 17 MHS, 19 MHS, 22 MHS and 23 MHS, although the 17 and 22 MHS I cannot find photos of. I can only assume they follow the idea of the Glock 47 with a shortened frame to allow compact slides. 

The Glock 40 is glock’s largest handgun, being a long slide 10mm. The Glock 42 is glock’s smallest handgun, being a subcompact .380 ACP, single stack 

The Glock 17 is named after the patent number, not the magazine capacity nor caliber. It was Gaston Glock’s 17th patent. The Glock 45 is the 45th patent, and it neither holds 45 rounds nor is a .45 ACP

S&W Model 1917. Don’t know much of it, at least not to the extent with other guns below, but it’s pretty cool. A large frame revolver chambered for .45 ACP. Yes, .45 ACP, the auto cartridge originated in 1905 by JMB with the Colt Model 1905 (later evolved into the venerable 1911). The 1917 was created as basically a space filler. It was there to fill the absence of 1911’s during WW1. If you couldn’t get a 1911, you got a 1917. It used half moon clips to mimic the rim of a revolver cartridge so you could chamber the .45 ACP’s without them sinking into the cylinder and actually eject them via the clip. You may have seen the 1917 as War Daddy (Brad Pitt)’s revolver in Fury (2014). Pretty cool gun

Went back 25 fucking pages in General Discussion to find this image I made. Shows some of my favorite pistols

Anyways like I said in general discussion the original Browning Hi Power design was striker fired. You may think it's the first striker fire ever because Glocks were the first, widely known striker fires, but this Browning Hi Power prototype was not the first striker fire. That belongs to the Dreyse Needle Gun. The first striker fired pistol was the Borchardt C-93. First successful, popular striker fired pistol was the FN Model 1900, designed by John Moses Browning. Both the Borchardt C-93 and FN Model 1900 are present in RDR1-2.