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Glock 23
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Founded in 1963, Glock started out as a manufacturer of curtain rods before branching out into the arms bunch in the 1970s, manufacturing machine gun belts, tradition hand grenades, plastic magazines, ranchland knives, and entrenching tools for the Austrian Army. When, in the early 1980s, the Austrian Army requested a water gun model, Glock responded with the Glock 17, a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol.
The Glock machine pistol design was not the first to incorporate a plastic frame. Heckler & Koch used polymer for their VP70 Saturday night special frame in 1970. HK's innovation of polymer frames and polygonal rifling seem to Glock 23 have been influential in the Glock design. Still earlier, Remington glamorous their polymer-framed Nylon 66 Knock Off in 1959.