CASE STUDY: GLOCK 17
The Glock 17 is a striker fired, short recoil, locked breech semi-automatic pistol with a polymer frame. Conventional pistol designs typically deploy a pivoting hammer in the rear of the pistol’s frame that impacts a firing pin mounted in the slide.
Striker fired pistols replace this two piece assembly with a single linear spring loaded striker assembly housed completely in the slide.
EXPLODED VIEW
CONFIGURATIONS
CALIBRE/SYSTEM: 9x19 / Safe Action
DIMENSIONS
• LENGTH: 204 mm / 8.03 in.
• WIDTH: 30.00 mm / 1.18 in.
• LENGTH BETWEEN SIGHTS: 165 mm / 6.49 in.
• HEIGHT: …show more content…
This means when the trigger is pulled it must both cock and release the striker in order to fire.
The Glock safe action trigger design uses the slides recoil action to half cock the striker against the trigger assembly’s sear, requiring a much shorter and lighter trigger pull to fire the gun.
The striker assembly resides in the slide while the trigger assembly resides in the receiver. Contact is made between the two assemblies where the trigger bar’s sear meets the striker nose.
Cocking and firing operations are the result of the sear making and breaking contact with striker’s nose.
A small spring-metal component at the rear of the receiver called the connector controls the relationship between sear and nose during the recoil cycle of the gun.
SAFETY SYSTEM
Glock pistols have no external manual safeties. Once a glock is loaded and cocked it remains in the ready-to-fire position until it is completely discharged or unloaded.
In lieu of manual safety glock’s safe action trigger system employs three integral safety mechanisms to protect the gun from accidental discharge when it is
The Glock 17 is a striker fired, short recoil, locked breech semi-automatic pistol with a polymer frame. Conventional pistol designs typically deploy a pivoting hammer in the rear of the pistol’s frame that impacts a firing pin mounted in the slide.
Striker fired pistols replace this two piece assembly with a single linear spring loaded striker assembly housed completely in the slide.
EXPLODED VIEW
CONFIGURATIONS
CALIBRE/SYSTEM: 9x19 / Safe Action
DIMENSIONS
• LENGTH: 204 mm / 8.03 in.
• WIDTH: 30.00 mm / 1.18 in.
• LENGTH BETWEEN SIGHTS: 165 mm / 6.49 in.
• HEIGHT: …show more content…
This means when the trigger is pulled it must both cock and release the striker in order to fire.
The Glock safe action trigger design uses the slides recoil action to half cock the striker against the trigger assembly’s sear, requiring a much shorter and lighter trigger pull to fire the gun.
The striker assembly resides in the slide while the trigger assembly resides in the receiver. Contact is made between the two assemblies where the trigger bar’s sear meets the striker nose.
Cocking and firing operations are the result of the sear making and breaking contact with striker’s nose.
A small spring-metal component at the rear of the receiver called the connector controls the relationship between sear and nose during the recoil cycle of the gun.
SAFETY SYSTEM
Glock pistols have no external manual safeties. Once a glock is loaded and cocked it remains in the ready-to-fire position until it is completely discharged or unloaded.
In lieu of manual safety glock’s safe action trigger system employs three integral safety mechanisms to protect the gun from accidental discharge when it is