Posted: 5/7/2010 4:24:42 PM EDT
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I traded a much hated HK USP9 for a Glock 22 today (hated by me anyways, lol). The HK sights were just too high for me and I have been a Glock shooter for 15 years. I just couldn't fire it fast and accurately like my Glocks.
Onward, The Glock is fairly interesting. It is a G22 and it has markings that I have never seen on a Glock. It has a proof mark above the trigger guard on the frame and proof mark on the slide near the extractor. The mark looks like an Austrian crest and it has what looks like a 'N' and a 'P' to the right of it. They letters are combined. There is a very small 'V' under the circular part of the 'P'. It says 'Made in Austria Glock Ges.m.b.H' on the side of the frame. On the bottom of the trigger guard it says 'Glock, INC. Smyrna, GA. Anyone have one like this? I have owned civilian Glocks and Police reconditioned Glocks. I have never seen one with these markings. ETA: I got this from sunblest.net.... 'NPv' = Nitro-Proof mark on Austro Hungarian pistols What does it mean? |
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Your gun was made for the European market. Usually the import markings are molded right into the side of the frame but in your case the European markings are there. They instead engraved the importer information (Glock Smyrna) under the trigger guard. The proof marks are almost always stamped on new European guns and the earliest imported Glocks.
Your European market gun was imported during the Obama election scare. Glock couldn't fill all the US orders with guns intended for the US market so they simply diverted European shipments, stenciled the importer information, and sent them to the US. |
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Very interesting. Any idea how many made it in the country? Your knowledge is much appreciated. The same way all other Glocks do. Virtually all Glocks are made in Austria. They are molded with information according to where they are to be shipped. One frame mold marks them as "Glock Austria and Smyrna Georgia". One frame mold for Europe marks them without the Smyrna reference (since they aren't coming over here) and adds the GMBH. Limited numbers of G17 and G22 frames are made in Smyrna Georgia and are not marked Austria. You just got a gun that was either molded in the European frame mold to speed up operations or one that was redirected to Smyrna. To be imported it had to be marked Smyrna and they decided to engrave it under the trigger guard. This was throughly discussed on Glocktalk last year. Many G19 showed up marked this way. |
