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'Glock's executives would pop up on television and say, 'Who are you accusing of putting guns on the street? We've done business with the very business in the city that's suing us. 'Police departments were implicated in the proliferation of handguns all across the country,' Barrett says, a fact that came to haunt the municipalities that, a decade later, tried suing the gun industry for flooding the streets with guns. The old equipment - which contained the higher-capacity magazines manufactured before the ban - was then sold on the used-gun market, and found its way to the streets. Glock also encouraged police departments to trade in their old equipment for newer, higher-capacity weapons. Glock had this huge stockpile of the very equipment that many gun owners wanted to get because it was banned - and the value of that equipment skyrocketed.' 'When the law was enacted, it allowed for a loophole that grandfathered in pre-existing equipment before the ban went into effect. 'Glock had seen this bill coming for years and had been running the factory nonstop - three shifts a day, seven days a week - building up the large-capacity firearms and the large-capacity magazines,' he says. But the company quickly found a way to use the ban on high-capacity magazines to their advantage, he says. The legislation, which expired in 2004, was initially seen as a terrible blow to the Glock. Glock's executives would pop up on television and say, 'Who are you accusing of putting guns on the street? We've done business with the very business in the city that's suing us. One of them was limiting the pistol magazine capacity to 10 rounds.' 'It took awhile, but by 1994, a bill was passed - this is what we remember as the Assault Weapons Bill - and was signed into law by President Clinton,' says Barrett. Hours after the shooting, members of Congress were debating whether guns like the Glock should be restricted. In 1991, the first Glock shooting spree took place in Texas. Within the space of a few years, you not only had the Glock showing up in lyrics - you had song titles with the name in it and people changing their stage names to incorporate Glock into them.' 'The fact that it looked tough, large magazine capacity, and, not incidentally, the fact that it rhymed so well with words you might want to use in rap lyrics. As soon as it appeared here, they began to embrace it for its dark, futuristic side,' he says. 'The Glock was adopted early on by some of the biggest names - Tupac, Dr. That publicity helped the Glock, as did its frequent mention in rap lyrics. ' introduced the gun as a character to people who don't know anything about guns,' says Barrett. The result? A lightweight, interchangeable model that could be dropped, submerged and subjected to temperature extremes - and still accurately fire. It also didn't have a decocking mechanism. It didn't have an external safety like other semiautomatic handguns. The original Glock 17, the model adopted by the Austrian army, contained only 36 parts and could hold 17 bullets in its magazine. 'He integrated all of those elements into the Glock, and that's how he won his original contract with the Austrian army.'

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the gun should be easy to fire easy to learn how to use,'' Barrett tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. 'They said, 'A gun with much larger ammunition capacity, a gun that is much more durable and reliable. Before starting, he asked gun experts in his native Austria what could be done to improve a handgun for the modern era. Glock didn't like the handguns available on the market and decided to manufacture a new gun from scratch. The Glock was created in 1982 by curtain-rod manufacturer Gaston Glock. In his book Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, Paul Barrett traces how the sleek, high-capacity Austrian weapon found its way into Hollywood films and rap lyrics, not to mention two-thirds of all U.S. Today the Glock pistol has become the gun of choice for both criminals and law enforcement in the United States. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Glock Subtitle The Rise of America's Gun Author Paul Barrett