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The Glock 17 is a full-sized pistol with a full-sized grip and minimal muzzle rise, which makes it very controllable and accurate even in rapid-fire. It’s trivial to get groupings of less than 2” from ...

You’ve probably shot both. Maybe you’ve carried one or trained with the other. The Sig P320 and Glock 17 are two of the most popular full-size striker-fired pistols on the planet, and for good reason.

The “Glock 19 vs. Glock 17” debate is usually framed like a pure shooting comparison—sight radius, recoil feel, and two extra rounds in the magazine. Naval Special Warfare choices don’t live in that ...

I can't say that when the Glock Model 17 hit the market way back in the mid-eighties that I was immediately a fan. In fact, I remember saying things about it being so ugly and it being shaped like a ...

France's DGA ordered the last tranche of 9,600 Glock 17 Gen 5 FR semi-automatic pistols on 26 April. (DGA) The Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, has ...

I just recently wrote a piece about the Pros & Cons of the Glock 19X. Near the end of it I mentioned how one shooter I know requested a Glock Model 17 sized but single stack 9mm handgun. It occurred ...

In 1987, a 22-year-old Venezuelan named Jorge Leon invented a small metal insert that could turn the Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic machine gun with the flick of a switch. Leon ...

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