{"product_id":"glock-the-rise-of-americas-gun-9780307719935","title":"Glock: The Rise of America's Gun","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on fifteen years of research  Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as Americans gun. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments  glamorized in countless Hollywood movies  and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists  and coveted by cops and crooks alike.  Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock  an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer  and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army  the Glock pistol  with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine  arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers  armed with standard six-round revolvers  were getting \"outgunned\" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols. They needed a new gun.  When Karl Water  a firearm salesman based in the U.S. first saw a Glock in 1984  his reaction was  Jeez  thats ugly. But the advantages of the pistol soon became apparent. The standard semi-automatic Glock could fire as many as 17 bullets from its magazine without reloading (one equipped with an extended thirty-three cartridge magazine was used in Tucson to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others). It was built with only 36 parts that were interchangeable with those of other models. You could drop it underwater  toss it from a helicopter  or leave it out in the snow  and it would still fire. It was reliable  accurate  lightweight  and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wessons revolver. Made in part of hardened plastic  it was even rumored (incorrectly) to be invisible to airport security screening.  Filled with corporate intrigue  political maneuvering  Hollywood glitz  bloody shoot-outsand an attempt on Gaston Glocks life by a former lieutenantGlock is at once the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public  as well as a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280063979573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307719936","price":27.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307719935.jpg?v=1780618845","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/glock-the-rise-of-americas-gun-9780307719935","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}