My Glock 23 Review Part One

I've always wanted to own a Glock, ever since I first started hearing about it a lot in the mid 80s. It was relatively new then, the first truly commercially successful "plastic" gun. Considering that before that time, the most successful gun was the M1911 family of automatic pistols, which by then was already 70 years old.

The polymer frame, and the relatively new trigger system was just so different, so high-tech. Even more impressive was that its success, as it was then slowly being adopted by more and more law enforcement and military agencies all around the world.

When I finally could afford one a couple of years ago, the supply of the pistol to the Philippines suddenly dried up, when the company decided to stop distribution of the unit in the country due to some controversy over some of the guns bought here ending up in Japan. So I had to wait a couple more years to finally get one, when the gun became available again.

Its a Glock 23, in .40 S & W, with what looks like a 3rd Generation frma. The licensing and release of the gun was an adventure in itself, one that I will relate later. For now, however, I am just going to review the gun first.

'First Impressions'
I'm impressed with the gun box that comes with it. It square with highly rounded edges, and has the company name "Glock" in big letters on the front. The unit came with:
- Two magazines;
- A cleaning brush tip;
- Instruction and other manuals in a sealed envelope;
- Magazine Sleeve;