Martian

Whether or not the Desert Eagle is ugly is a matter of taste, I guess. Personally, I'd rather have something from FN or Beretta. I mostly appreciate guns from the engineering perspective; the 5.7mm cartridge FN was producing gave me a woody until I found out that it's actually not very effective. I'd never actually use a P90 (I don't trust that 90 degree magazine rotation gadgetry), but the pistol they built around the 5.7 looked fun. Small, light and high capacity. If only the round hadn't sucked.

I almost typed that I don't want to buy a P220. The truth is that I do want to buy a P220, but I don't want it badly enough to jump through all the necessary hoops. I don't even think there are any ranges closer to me than the city, which is an hour and a half away on a good day.

Anyway, that's why Glocks are famous. It's the same reason every 9 year old boy can identify an Uzi on sight but wouldn't recognize a Tec-9 no matter how hard you beat them with it. Movies like flashy guns. Glocks are flashy.

Note that it's almost always a Glock 17 too, although the 18's with the extended mags are gaining ground. Laurence Fishburne doing his kung fu shit on the freeway with one in whichever Matrix movie that was probably has something to do with that.

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I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame