The GLOCK 17L is a specially made pistol designed and manufactured in Austria by GLOCK. It is basically a longer slide version of the GLOCK 17. It has the same frame as a GLOCK 17 and uses the same magazines. Image File history File links G17L.jpg Summary Picture from GLOCK website of the 17L. I intend to put this on the Wikipedia entry for the GLOCK 17L pistol. ... A Browning 9 millimetre semiautomatic pistol Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century A pistol or handgun is a usually small firearm that can be used with one hand. ... GLOCK is an Austrian defense contractor (named after the founder Gaston Glock) founded in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria. ... The GLOCK 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company GLOCK. It is a locked breech, short recoil 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol with a standard magazine capacity of 17 rounds of ammunition. ... The GLOCK 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company GLOCK. It is a locked breech, short recoil 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol with a standard magazine capacity of 17 rounds of ammunition. ...
History
The 17L was initially sold in the early 90s as a competition gun. It originally featured a ported barrel, but has since lost that feature due to negligible muzzle flip in the 9x19mm caliber. The 17L has been largely replaced by the GLOCK 34 due to post-introduction restrictions on overall length in many popular competition categories, and was not being manufactured for several years. A recent run of 1000 units was done in 2004/2005, along with runs of 1000 and 500 units of its longslide .40 S&W counterparts, the GLOCK 24 and GLOCK 24C. ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ... The GLOCK 34 is a 9mm pistol designed and manufactured by GLOCK. It is a combat competition shooting pistol with a standard magazine capacity of 17 rounds of ammunition. ... The GLOCK 24 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17L modified to fire the . ...
See Also
GLOCK 17, the original Glock, the basis for the 17L
GLOCK 34, essentially the replacement in competition for the 17L
GLOCK (not Glock) is an Austrian defense contractor (named after the founder Gaston Glock) mainly known for being the manufacturer of polymer-framed pistols, but it also makes equipment such as field knives and shovels.
Its first pistol model was the classic GLOCK 17 (so named because it was the 17th patent of the company), a 9 mm Luger handgun with a 17 round capacity (unusually large at the time), introduced in the early 1980s as a response to the Austrian army asking for a new sidearm.
GLOCKs are also by far the most common handguns among law enforcement agencies in the United States; many estimates place GLOCK's market share among USA police departments at over 60% (based on total number of guns sold, not percentage of departments).
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