Glock AR-15 Rumors Run Rampant. That Would Be a Nightmare.

[Celerity]

There has long been chatter that that the company was going to branch out from handguns into long guns.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/glock-ar-15-rumors-run-rampant-and-that-would-be-a-nightmare



Bruce Willis rhapsodized about them in Die Hard 2. Tupac rapped about them, and was killed by one. Between cops and hip-hop stars and actual gangstas and everyday gun nuts, the reliably deadly Glock has become a generic term for all semi-automatic pistols. “The Google or the Kleenex of firearms,” says Paul Barrett, author of The Rise of America’s Gun.

Glock is baked into the American consciousness thanks to Hollywood and lyrics that take advantage of the name’s rhymability. There is a rapper by the name of Key Glock. A cheap device that can illegally convert a semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic machine gun is known as a Glock switch even though the company apparently had nothing to do with its development or production.

Given Glock’s remarkable success in marketing its handguns, there has long been talk in the firearms world that the company was going to branch out into long guns, specifically into the booming market for AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles. “For at least seven or eight or nine, maybe 10 years, these rumors have persisted,” said Ryan Busse, a former firearms company executive who is now a senior policy analyst with the Giffords Law Center and author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America. “The real question was why hadn’t they?”

Earlier this month, a multi-platform social media account called Mrgunsngear posted what is described as a “leaked” photo of an AR-15-type rifle bearing the familiar Glock logo. A Mrgunsngear YouTube video reports that features of the weapon as seen in the photo match a slew of patents that Glock secured in 2019. And the patents correspond to specifications listed in a British military solicitation for a new weapon for its special forces. Glock has essentially confirmed that the photo of the military prototype is genuine, but added that there are no present plans to produce a civilian version.

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[calimary]

1. Oh fabulous. Just exactly what we need.

[Chainfire]

2. There are an unbelievable number of makers of that type of weapon already.

The country is afloat in them. Glock will probably make an additional fortune, but it will only come at the loss of other makers market shares. I predict that a Glock rifle would be expensive, however you can buy one of these man-killers for as little as $500.00, and put it on your credit card. The sellers like to call them "sporting rifles" and that is accurate if you consider killing people a sport. There are estimated to be 20 million of these rifles in circulation in the US today. This doesn't include the Eastern equivalent, the AK-47... Here is a partial list of AR manufactures:

AR-15 Manufactures

Adam Arms
Advanced Armament
Aero Precision USA
Alexander Arms
Armalite
American Tactical
Barrett
Beretta
Black Rain Ordnance
Brownells
Bushmaster
Cobalt Kinetics
Colt
Daniel Defense
Dark Storm Industries
Del-Ton
Diamondback Firearms
DPMS Panther Arms
DRD Tactical
DS Arms
F-1 Firearms
Falkor Defense
FNH USA
Heckler & Koch
Huldra
JP Rifles
KE Arms
Les Baer Custom Inc.
Lewis Machine & Tools
LWRC International
Mossberg
Patriot Ordnance Factory
Primary Weapons
Rebel Arms
Remington
Rock Island Armory
Rock River Arms
Ruger
Seekins Precision
Sig Sauer
Smith & Wesson
Special Ops Tactical
Spikes Tactical
Stag Arms
Steyr
Troy Defense
Wilson Combat
Windham Weaponry
Yankee Hill Machine

If you are needing one, here is a link to purchase a $500.00 AR, online!

https://www.usa-gun-shop.com/5-best-ar15s-500-less-cheap-guns-for-sale/