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- The Glock is the most popular pistol in the world, so it’s no surprise that this pistol has been a trusty sidearm in dozens of video games, including Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Call of Duty. It’s a pistol that has enjoyed a huge amount of pop culture attention, but the weapon has also been surrounded by its fair share of myths and tropes.
With the help of Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, Jonathan Ferguson, we’ve come to the Royal Armouries museum in the UK to take a deep dive into the story and video game legacy of the iconic Glock.
In this episode of Loadout, Dave Jewitt visits the Royal Armouries to talk to Keeper of Firearms & Artillery Jonathan Ferguson to chat about one of pop culture’s most iconic pistols, the Glock!
You can check out more episodes of Loadout right here. - • How Games Are Lying To...
You can check out our Firearms Expert Reacts series here. - • Firearms Expert Reacts...
If you're interested in seeing more of Jonathan's work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. - / royalarmouries
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Thanks for watching this week's episode!
We hope you're enjoying the series so far - it was a lot of fun to sit down and chat about one of the gaming's most iconic pistols.
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Tells about the Beretta the John woo favorite !
43rd week asking for Loadout on games (not) keeping track of the round in the chamber between reloads. 67th week of asking for Expert Reacts on Bullet Girls Phantasia.
I have a question if you can get it answered--what's the story behind that blue Glock on the table throughout the video?
@@ParisChristianne it's a training Glock. We feature it in the Ready Or Not V1.0 video if you'd like a full breakdown
@@IrregularDave hey thanks! I will definitely go check that video out :)
So “Every handgun eventually evolves into a Glock” is the firearms version of “Every crustacean eventually evolves into a crab”?
To paraphrase James Yeager
“You need a glock. I don’t care what brand it is”
Gaston took a good idea & made it great....Now , so many are making it phenomenal. { He definitely should have focused on an ergonomic grip....a long time ago} PDP is a rockstar !
you could call it glockinization
Rip Gaston Glock, truly a seminal figure in firearms design
Ha
he was the leading horse in the race of polymer pistols
Quit horsing around man
Definitely a different breed
9:28 😬
Imagine being an renowned firearms company, and you end up losing a million dollar handgun contract to a dude who creates shower curtains.
Curtain rods, is what Glock was known for before firearms.
Fititing that the Glock is used in Half-Life, as Aperture Science got its start as a US Govt. contractor making shower curtains. Then it got into this rivalry over US Govt defense contracts with Black Mesa.
I was hoping someone would bring this up@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
Sig is more then "a dude".
Also rip in peace gasdon glock
The sight of Jonathan going full auto with a drum mag G18 is something I didn't know I needed.
WD-40 was named similarly to the Glock 17 in that it was the 40th formulation they tried
Whereas Glock made the same pistol 50 times 😆
Glocks are the crab of the striker fired pistol world, everything evolves into Glock.
I just rewatched Ahoy's Iconic Arms episode on this yesterday, what are the odds ha.
I love these Loadout Episodes, the editing, the history, the commentary, it absolutely lives up to being a worthy successor, it's incredibly well made!
I find it really fascinating how this series and the Iconic Arms series have a lot in common but manage to not tread too much of the same ground.
Ahoy is still uploading lol, he just released HK G36 a few days ago
I really like how ahoy summaries it in 3 words "the glock neutral, universal, perfect"
@@feryth indeed, in fact that episode is what inspired me to back into the Iconic Arms binge watch, and that's why ended up watching the Glock Episode.
Unfortunately good old Stu only uploads like once a year now a days, a shame because the videos are incredible when they are uploaded. Not just Iconic Arms but other series as well.
My dad taught me to shoot handguns with his Gen 1 Glock 17, which he ended to giving to me as a gift on my 21st birthday. Still my favorite pistol of all time.
How many kills did you score with it?
@@Darkest_Soul_187 Are we counting paper and steel targets?
Glock is the gun that simply refuses stereotype. It’s used by good guys and bad guys. The beat cop and the special forces operator. The gangsta and the average joe alike. No matter who you are and what your need for a pistol is, there is most certainly a Glock ready to go for you. I can’t think of another pistol that appeals to such a broad spectrum of people and needs as the Glock does currently. Gaston Glock more than earned his place on the Mount Rushmore of God Tier gun designers.
Still waiting for the Steyr AUG episode! Such a "future"/sci-fi/future gun which is still in use, was featured in some of the biggest action movies and games, and the Australian Defence Force are still evolving it into something else entirely! Love your work.
It also appeared in episodes of Dr Who in the 1970s.
The CEO of Steyr after losing the Austrian Army Pistol tests: GASTON GLOCK BUILT THIS IN A SHED WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
Well I’m sorry. I’m not Gaston Glock.
No one builds guns better than Gaston
@@sukottotsukeshi.No one's pistol grip is as thick as Gaston's!
@@Tadicuslegion78 ÒwÓ
"If you told a kid to draw a gun, they would probably draw a glock by accident" -Unknown
Glocks are simple and robust. They dont have any fancy features and the trigger is pretty..."Industrial" HOWEVER! They are cheap and work in the most hellish environments
I dont know if you are allowed to talk about the "swithces" but that wouldve been a nice extra quick info
Even just talking about modifications like that has been known to get videos taken down or demonetized
Yeah...Thats probably the reason...But dont they have a patreon or something like that?
Not really that cheap anymore
The Glock really is just the default pistol. Whenever I think of it I think of the Glock 18C in Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. That's where I first used it in a video game and the idea of a fully-automatic pistol blew my mind.
Interestingly, Fallout actually does have a Glock weapon despite not having "the Glock" - the 1/2/Tactics Plasma Pistol is described as the Glock 86 and designed by the Gaston Glock AI (it does look somewhat reminiscent, allowing for graphical limitations).
The Plasma Defender in New Vegas is basically the 3D version of the Glock 86.
First gun I ever fired was the Glock 19. Just an amazing weapon
0:29 No Glock like horse Glock
Always thought the beretta was more popular in media because of the dramatic purposes of pulling down the hammer
Love your work Jonathan and Dave.
I understand the Royal Armouries have the infamous AKMSU in their collection; brought back by a British soldier from a Middle Eastern campaign, a khyber pass hodge-podge which inspired the "krink" trend and perhaps even the Zastava M92. I'd love to see you do a deep dive on that one Jonathan
More importantly, where does Jonathan get his T-shirts from?
A video covering double barrel shotguns would be nice. We see the firearm variation in so much media that we hardly ever know the origin or the various manufacturers.
I own a glock 43x and i must say it is so nice to use. Easy, handles very well, and remains on target!
me too my first glock and its also my carry gun
Just noticed Jonathans watch. what an epic piece of tech. who needs an Apple smartwatch when you got one of these.
My favorite handgun. Easy to mod to make it your own, easy to fix & parts are everywhere. The Honda Civic of the Gun World. PERFECTION
42 years of Glock
pretty sure the Honda Civic would've been the AK.
@noobguy9973 No, that goes to the Toyota Corolla 🤣
@@Frank7G ohh right that fits a lot better XD
Toyota Hilux...does even work in Afghanistan
RIP Gaston
Headphone warning! 4:38 RIP Gaston and also my hearing.
"so, welcome to the default option"
Stuart Brown, 2019
I'm a self-proclaimed Glock historian and owner for years.... The simplest way to sum up their popularity unlike other manufacturers is law enforcement and civilian sales.......
Yes he did get start in polymer manufacturing shower curtain rings the Glock trench tool and then when he was interested in the Austrian military gun trials the p80 in 1981 was the first Glock in a nutshell a model 17 as it would be called in the future prototype.....
As he was building his brand is the world should know the US military is where the big money is at after submitting his pistol designs competing with Beretta and others...
He definitely found is niche in the later 1980's offering his Glocks to law enforcement agencies across the USA... Giving out a lot of samples...
With the simplicity of of the Glock easy to teach officers how to shoot and most important very low maintenance
Cost and great customer service. Glocks popularity skyrocketed eventually dominating over 65% of all law enforcement agencies in the USA.
Glock also offers to civilian users unlike other manufacturers organizations such as the GSSF Glock shooting sports foundation......
Where unlike other gun companies Glock welcome civilian owners with open arms allowing them to take armorer lessons and family orientated
Gun safety shooting competitions...
Teaching yourself to be a better shooter well-being around other responsible gun safety minded Glock owners..
So the secret to Glocks success...
A reliable utilitarian gun that's not the best but just works in all conditions in concentration on the civilian not military market making it one of the most renowned usually identifiable pistols in the world...
Any non gun person can look at a silhouette and tell you 3 guns...
A AR-15 ,AK-47 and a Glock.....
I used to love Glocks, but Sig P365 is on another level for me.
Thank you!!
crazy I was just thinking about this....I remember growing up that the Beretta model seemed to be the most popular in the 90's and when I first saw the Glock in games/movies, I thought it looked a bit weird, being all squared off and such. Now I see it and it looks like the standard and the Beretta looks odd!
Yer when someone says gun my brain goes straight to the beretta 92fs
Used to hate Glock with how blocky and unimaginative their shape. But now? Consider me a fan.
I was a damn fool, I'll admit. I wasn't aware how varied and accessible this platform can really be, it's pretty much the Skyrim of guns I'd say...
Jonathan's face when shooting full auto with the 18C is a poem.
It's hard to overstate just how good Glocks are and how much they've proliferated globally. I have a few myself, and they're just fantastic, simple, and reliable guns.
That refuse to update, putting them lower on the scale since most companies offer more upgrades out of the box for the same price.
@@chris.3711 not much a drawback when the interchangeability + aftermarket parts for the platform is so developed. It's very much the AR of the handgun world, whenever people say the don't like Glock it's like saying they don't like sandwiches. If you don't like your sandwich it's kind of your fault, put something you like on there next time you know
With a name like "Eggenberger" he was either going to invent a globally-popular pistol, or a chain of egg-centric burger restaurants.
I love these videos so much, please keep making them they are brilliant! 👏🔥
That is such a hilarious story about how glock got started in firearms
I find it interesting that outside of all the videos gamespot puts up, the expert gun videos are 9/10 are the highest viewed videos on the channel. Glad they’re successful, because I always enjoy watching these videos
GameSpot is slowly becoming a firearms channel.
Dave is slowly taking over Gamespot. Soon every video will be about firearms, and he'll run the entire company.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Fine by me.
First time I saw a Glock in a video game was in Syphon Filter 1 on PS1, in that it was called G18 and had the 33 round stick mag. The icon for the gun was a bit weird, the gun was like pink colored with a weird shape as if the slide was supposed to be always open.
Now that I thought about it, even the very first pistol you had from the start, called "Silenced 9mm", was just a Glock 17 with a silencer. Odd that they had 2 variations of the same gun, but the first one you got had a generic name and the second one you got halfway through the game had more distinct name.
The Glock is like the iPhone. The iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. It was built on existing technologies at the time, but it was among the first to combine all these bits into a compelling package. Combine that with the sheer marketing power of Apple behind it, you end up with the default smartphone.
Similarly, the Glock wasn't the first striker-fired handgun; it wasn't the first polymer-framed handgun; its action was based on a design that was several decades old at the time. It's just that it put all these things together in a single package with a very streamlined user experience. It was also marketed extremely well, enough to hit a critical mass of adoption that it's become the default handgun of the world.
The whole video that cool looking blue Glock was sitting on the table and I kept waiting for them to talk about it but they never did!! What is the story behind that piece? Anyone know?
That was featured in another recent video - see "Firearms Expert Reacts To Ready Or Not V1.0's Guns"
TLDW: Its a special version only capable of firing less lethal ammunition.
@@derekp2674 Ty for the reply I will definitely go watch that video for the full explanation :)
Jesus Christ, that drum mag is bigger than the gun itself
Rest in Piece Gaston Glock you've given us a great pistol.
The funny thing about the glock from Duke Nukem 3D is to me it always retroactively looked like an FN Five Seven. That's the only pistol I can think of that has a semi glock-shape but with the super rounded edges.
12:30
I think Steyr did a good job with their Steyr M9-A1, though it was made by a former Glock employee which I feel makes it the "Glock 2.0" as it marries the CZ pistols with the Glock to make an amazingly low bore axis "wonder 9" that recoils like a .380 and has some of the most unique sights I've ever seen.
Been carrying the M9-A1 as my concealed carry weapon for the past decade now and I still can't find a reason to switch.
Love my 43x and 29. Glock Is truly an amazing tool.
It only takes like 5 seconds of critical thought to reason a ceramic gun slide can’t exist and would probably maim its owner after its shot like twice
One of my favorite Variants of this gun. Is the glock 18 I like to get a drum mag on a Carbine kit on in it
That cut out bottom is definitely just an aesthetic choice at this point.
I have a glock 42 which is a .380 micro pistol, and it still has that hole. And trust me, they didn't cut any other gun to make that happen. Lol.
Glock operates right at the sweet spot of being fully featured, accurate, and affordable.
"Welcome to the default option"
Gaston Glock starting his career making kitchen tools and curtain rails before falling backwards into making one of the most profitable weapon platforms ever is such a Cave Johnson-esc origin
Would love to see a review of Onward VR's guns.
Seeing Jonathan go full auto is nice.
Thanks to these guys, I'm becoming quite interested in guns. Hope I don't end up on a list.
Fun fact, Malaysian army is issued a glock 17 as replacement for the beretta, but snipers and officers for the 10th para brigade can be issued with an 18c, I was, never put it in auto, no point in it
I'm starting to favor other brands(I'm a big fan of Canik's TP9SFX series, as well as the Mete series which is just a different flavor of TP9) but my EDC is still a Gen 5 G19 MOS modified to my liking with Glock performance trigger, FCD RMR plate, Streamlight TLR1HL, and a sand paper grip tape from Talon Grips, and a Trijicon RMR RM06 type 2.
There are definitely "better" pistols on the market now. Better triggers, better factory sights, better and more mechanically sound optic cuts/plate systems, but Glock is good enough for anything you might need so many people just stick within the Glock envelope.
Glock is also the most returned handgun because it lacks what people want in a pistol, especially in this day and age. Other brands are better by a long shot.
@@chris.3711 Where did you get that information re: Glock being returned?
@@armorers_wrenchCompanies track their pruchases and national firearms sales by brand. Glock sells the most and Glocks are the most returned/resold pistol. The reasoning being it was recommended as a first pistol or is recognized, then when people get them and shoot them, turns out its not what a person was looking for an sell them back to the place the bought it from if allowed.
I love the little cameos Killing Floor 2 gets just because its guns are so good 😊
Thanks again Dave and Jonathan for this fantastic informative video on Glock and his wonder nine glock the Toyota Corrolla of guns 🔫 💪 😂
I think Hi Point got the inspiration for their C9 from the Duke Nukem pistol.
Lol, he looks like he's trying to pinch one off when he's aiming that pistol.
when he said all ohter pistols trying to go modern eventually look like a glock, Is the glock the Crab of the pistol world
One thing that I’ve always thought was ironic was even today after it has been widely disproven people still believe that you can take a Glock firearm and bring it through a metal detector.
Granted, this is usually saying brought out from individuals that are clearly not privy to how firearms actually work.
"... use the finger of your support hand on the trigger guard to help pull the muzzle down - nobody does that anymore"
Well, in the UK at least. 😉😁
Glock is crab. Understood.
What game is featured at 00:24 with the Battlefield Green Glock?
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
I think the 18c would be way better if it had a metal frame, it would probably still be somewhat uncontrollable, but I think the extra weight would help a lot. I’ve got an Airsoft version of the 18c & it’s way more controllable 😂
I don't know how much you're paying Dave, but he needs a raise.
The man's only got one shirt, for goodness sake...
You're telling me the gun from Duke Nukem 3d is supposed to be a Glock? My whole childhood was just rewritten somehow
I always figured it was some weird looking USP. It's twelve rounds after all. The wiki says it's a Glock 26.
The console version of James Bond 007: Nightfire had an interesting take on the Glock: Rather than an "actual" Glock, the bad guys use a Chinese select fire counterfeit Glock (if you use a texture viewer or free cam, you can see a very dubious "Glock" written on the side of the model in overly plain text). That's an actual thing and this made it distinct in gameplay from the starting P99 which is more accurate but far more controllable than the machine pistol (which only has single fire option for the sake of multiplayer matches where it might be your only weapon).
On the metal detector thing, I would not be shocked if the CIA/KGB/KGB successor/MI6/etc. made some single shot pistol that fired a non-metal projectile as a proof of concept, realized the idea was dumb and stuck it in a vault. It would be horribly useless for anything but assassinations where security was limited to a metal detector and have nothing to do with a Glock.
6:10
One might say to get the Heckler and Koch away...
I am amazed you aren't geting flamed by Argentinians for the Falklands line.
Arn “The Glock” Anderson
The sound mixing on this video is highly frustrating. The interview is relatively quiet, then suddenly you get incredibly loud gunshots. Not sure how this slipped through the net.
My fave gun
1911 nuff said.
I'm by no means very knowledgeable in regards to firearms, but whenever I think of pistols the first one that comes to mind is the Beretta M9 (not sure that's the correct name). Probably because of Matrix being the millenial that I am.
The Glock knife is rather decent. I have a saw back on in my emergency car kit. Shovel is not half bad either.
Brooo that’s so sick watching him shoot a 17C
Can't say anything as to a Glock being the ideal practical pistol as I don't carry as part of my profession (or at all), but in range shooting, a G17 is tied with the XD as least favorite of the handful of pistols I've fired. 1911 tops the list so far.
I’m surprised they were comparing it to the 1911 and not the Beretta
More than perfect, i feel that the glock is good enough for the price. It's easily the most reliable pistol you can find that doesn't drain your wallet but still with a vivid market for accessories to improve it with.
I know exactly we’re I’m going when the zombie apocalypse starts.
Press F for Gaston Glock
Jonathan has a nice watch
OH GOD NOT THE HORSES
It helps when every other gun manufacturer is trying and failing to be you. Why buy the knockoff when you can have the real thing?
Funny, because the best Glocks on the market aren't made by Glock. Or are so modified by aftermarket parts it's no longer classified as a Glock.
S&W's options are half the price with a better trigger.
@@kanrakucheeseOptic cut, better grip texture, etc.
I think its fair to that, if you're looking for a handgun, you can't go wrong with a Glock. And that doesn't look like it'll change anytime soon.
😢 I miss my gen 1 17c.
12:57 bruh its called the "Gluke" and it's made in austria
I'm Glocked and Loaded!
Day two of asking jonathan Ferguson keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum,to react to phantom forces guns
Wish you had mentioned the design criteria.
It's okay. You mentioned it. Not in a useful way, but you did it.
Glocks are nice but they aren't 1911 .45.
i actually thought it would be the 1911 or the DEagle
Wasn’t the Glock the base for the First Order pistol in the Star Wars sequel trilogy?
It is a little bit sad that 90% of the video is reducing Glock to the G18, when we could expect so much more than that.
So is it like a Toyota in the firearm industry? 😅
In a lot of ways yes, but also with the added bonus that pistols tend to need accessories like holsters, and if you buy a glock, you will have the pistol that most holsters are made for and so on.
@@xthetenth Customisation, accessories, and aftermarket? Honda Civic of pistols
Glock 18 is a true bullet hose
Is it just me, because I want to see a GOCK on Cursed Guns by Brandon Herrera