Made in germany this firearm is constructed entirely of porcelain is capable of passing through airport metal detectors completely unnoticed.
Die hard ceramic glock.
The only downside to this amazing weapon is the price which is quite expensive.
The glock 7 is a fictional 9mm pistol supposedly made entirely out of porcelain that apparently appears in die hard 2.
It s easy to make the frame or magazine of a gun out of some non metal polymer but things like the barrel and the pins are under way too much heat and pressure to be made of anything but good old fashioned metal.
The real msrp is unknown but experts say that they cost more than the dulles international airport police.
The ceramic pistol is a reference to the inaccurate description of glock pistols in the 1990 action thriller die hard 2 where bruce willis character john mcclane describes them as a porcelain gun made in germany that doesn t show up on your airport metal detectors and costs more than you make in a month.
The purpose of non metallic gun would be to not be detected via metal detectors rather than x ray machines which can detect any dense object regardless if it s.
Glock is austrian not german company.
First off there isn t a glock 7 but more importantly there s no such thing as an entirely ceramic handgun.
Rather than constructing custom guns to portray the fictional pistol first generation glock 17s were used as a stand in.
The gun you have nothing to fear from but glock hates it it was 20 years ago this coming summer that the action movie die hard 2 which was actually based on the robert thorp crime.
Contrary to popular movies like die hard 2 neither glock nor any other gun maker has ever produced a porcelain ceramic or plastic firearm which is undetectable by ordinary security screening devices.
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First glock pistol was glock 17 the gun digest book of the glock by patrick sweeney chapter 9.