Glocks are some of the most efficient and versatile handguns of all time. Now they don’t make a rifle (yet) but a number of companies do offer conversion kits to allow you to convert your Glock handgun into a pistol caliber carbine. One of the most popular ones is the CCU made by Mech-Tech.
Pistol caliber carbines date back to the 1850s and the concept in and among themselves are not new. Taking a standard handgun action and adding a short, rifle length (16-20 inch) barrel and a buttstock, you now have a longarm that still fires a pistol round. The stock and forearm provide a much better and more stable platform than a pistol’s grip alone. With a longer barrel, you get a longer and much more accurate sight radius. This means that basketball sized groups at 25-yards with a handgun can very easily become softball sized groups with that same handgun in a carbine configuration. With a little practice and a steady shooting position, 100-yard shots are a real possibility. You just can’t do that with a standard handgun.
Read the rest in my column at the Glock Forums
Technically this is still a pistol
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
