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The idea of a plastic Glock appeared in one of the Die Hards. For all I know that's where it originated.
by pjungwir 14y ago
The idea of a plastic Glock appeared in one of the Die Hards. For all I know that's where it originated.
- jlgreco 14y agoDie Hard 2 I believe. That's where I first heard it too.
- cranklin 14y agothey called it the "glock 7"
- Zimahl 14y agoThere was also a composite gun used in 'In the Line of Fire', a Clint Eastwood movie from 1993.
- theorique 14y agoAccording to the Glock company's official story, that's correct. The Glock 7 is a fictional weapon, it doesn't cost as much as John McClane said, and a gun barrel is still made of metal to deal with the explosive pressure of rapidly expanding gases.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoIt didn't originate in the Die Hard movie. There was a media fueled rumor about the Glock 17 containing so little metal that it wouldn't show up on metal detectors, and Die Hard 2 merely perpetuated that idea. However, none of it was ever true. In the mid '80s there was a rumor about a Soviet all-plastic 3-shot gun, and there was a guy who patented the idea of an all-plastic gun, and then the media picked up on Glock making guns using plastic frames (but still more than 80% metal by weight). Then someone wrote a breathless story about how Libya was trying to buy Glocks, and this rapidly snowballed into a media fueled freakout about plastic guns and the Glock became a "terrorist special" and so forth.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoP.S. Here's an article from 1986 which was one of the major sources for the "plastic gun" scare: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19860418&id=Ol4eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2cgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3270,4275428 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19860418&... As an intellectual exercise, see how many mistakes and logical fallacies the author commits.