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According to Paul Barrett in “Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun,” this issue of “Soldier of Fortune” magazine offered the US it’s first wide-spread exposure to the Glock pistol. Write Peter Kokalis visited the factory in Austria and spent the day shooting with Gaston Glock himself before coming home to compose a short write-up ofContinue reading “Soldier of Fortune Oct 1984 Introduces US to “Plastic Perfection””

In the vein of “Things I Never Thought Would Have Value” comes the newest entry: historical Glock brochures, catalogues, magazines, user manuals, etc. The brochure pictured above came out in the late ’80s and was one of the first, if not THE first, printed adverts for the Glock. A recent ebay auction netted the sellerContinue reading “Glock in Print”

This one has been a part of my collection for a while now, but I recently picked up a copy of the “Book of Glock” by Robert Sadowski and it alerted me to a whole new collector category. The most interesting part of the book was actually the table at the very back stating theContinue reading “1st Run G23”

If you’ve perused the “Rare Variants List” on my page, you might recognize the significance of this fine specimen: a Gen 2 model 24 with ported barrel. Not only is this one a rare breed, but this particular example happens to be part of the first run of 1,000 model 24s ever made (serial prefixContinue reading “1st Series Glock 24 c. 1994”

I walked in to a pawn shop this afternoon and a 19M just jumped in to my arms–I couldn’t do anything about it. Normally, I’m only drawn to the early guns–as the models get newer and newer a company tends to get more and more “gimmicky” trying to boost sales. Like, really, how many GlockContinue reading “The Glock 19M”

This is a quick review of my experience with the live auction, customer service, and final receipt of items purchased. A recent forum post alerted me to another potential player in the hunt for rare Glocks–one I’ve known of for many years but had never taken the time to follow their auctions. The poster initiallyContinue reading “Recent Experience with Rock Island Auction Company”