Polymer frames establish the contemporary standard of duty pistols, although, they did not erase the motivation why metal frames received their reputations in the initial place. Once a handgun is required to operate hard, predictable at high speed, and able to endure less-than-ideal conditions, the time-honored benefits of rigidity...

Over years, Glock customers used model numbers as the identifier: the size, the caliber, the generation, and believe that it is going to remain in the catalog. The assumption has been diluted as the firm sheds commercial versions and swings towards a leaner “baseline" set. Corporate housekeeping is not...