Why the Glock Became America’s Handgun

Sure. This was the first time, as far as I could determine, that the Glock showed up on the big screen: A clever Hollywood prop guy put the gun into the second Die Hard movie. And the screenplay writer actually wrote a little soliloquy that Bruce Willis gave in which he named the Glock. And Willis, who?s playing this hard-bitten, Los Angeles police detective, "That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It?s a porcelain gun made in Germany. Dosen?t show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it cost more than you make in a month."

Every single thing he said about the Glock was factually incorrect, and yet people went to the movie and said, "What?s a Glock?" Everyone wanted to know what it was. Gun people loved it because, like car people and foodies, they love to find examples of pop culture getting the facts wrong. And from there on, the Glock became Hollywood?s favorite gun.

It also became the favorite gun of the ascendant popular music, namely hip-hop music. And if you?re familiar with David Foster Wallace, there?s a great scene in his most famous book, Infinite Jest, in which a character who is a junior tennis champion intimidates his opponents by coming onto the court and threatening to shoot himself if he loses a point. And Wallace rhapsodizes about the Glock for a paragraph. It?s a perfect illustration of how the gun has taken on an aura well beyond its use as an actual weapon.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/weapons/why-the-glock-became-americas-handgun?src=rss

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