McNeill, closing from the opposite direction, spotted the black Monte Carlo at the head of the strange convoy. Moments later, other FBI units converged soon, three unmarked sedans trailed the bank robbers. In my twenty-one years with the agency, I never felt more sure that when we found these guys, they would go down hard.” “They had killed two people another woman was missing,” McNeill said. To catch them, Gordon McNeill, a supervisory special agent with the Miami field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had set up a rolling stakeout. The pair had been robbing banks and armored trucks in southern Dade County over the past four months. on April 11, 1986, when Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Gerald Dove spotted the two suspects driving a stolen black Chevrolet Monte Carlo on South Dixie Highway. Cookman Jacket photography © Mike Kemp/Rubberball/Getty Images Illustration by John Burgoyne Jacket design by Whitney G. Made in part of hardened plastic, it was even rumored (incorrectly) to be invisible to airport security screening.įilled with corporate intrigue, political maneuvering, Hollywood glitz, bloody shoot-outs-and an attempt on Gaston Glock’s life by a former lieutenant-Glock is at once the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public, as well as a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was built with only 36 parts that were interchangeable with those of other models. The standard semi-automatic Glock could fire as many as 17 bullets from its magazine without reloading (one equipped with an extended thirty-three cartridge magazine was used in Tucson to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others). first saw a Glock in 1984, his reaction was, “Jeez, that’s ugly.” But the advantages of the pistol soon became apparent. When Karl Water, a firearm salesman based in the U.S. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike.Ĭreated in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army, the Glock pistol, with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, arrived in America at a fortuitous time. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. Genre: sci_tech,adv_history,ref_ref, Glock The Rise of Americas Gun Paul Barrettīased on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American’s gun.
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