Glock 17

The Glock 17 is first of a series of handguns collectively referred to as the Glock Pistol. It is a polymer-framed, short recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistol chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum designed and produced by Austrian Glock Ges.m.b.H.. It entered Austrian military and police service by 1982 after it was the top performer in reliability and safety tests.

Despite initial resistance from the market to accept a perceived "plastic gun" due to both unfounded durability and reliability concerns, as well as fears that its use of a polymer frame might circumvent metal detectors in airports, Glock pistols have become the company's most profitable line of products as well as supplying national armed forces, security agencies, and police forces in at least 48 countries.