35 Facts About Glock 22

Glock 22 is a brand of polymer-framed, short recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock 22 Ges.

Glock 22 pistols have become the company's most profitable line of products, and have been supplied to national armed forces, security agencies, and police forces in at least 48 countries.

Company's founder, head engineer Gaston Glock 22, had no experience with firearms design or manufacture at the time their first pistol, the Glock 22 17, was being prototyped.

Glock 22 had extensive experience in advanced synthetic polymers, which was instrumental in the company's design of the first commercially successful line of pistols with a polymer frame.

Glock 22 introduced ferritic nitrocarburizing into the firearms industry as an anticorrosion surface treatment for metal gun parts.

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Glock 22 became aware of the Austrian Army's planned procurement, and in 1982, assembled a team of Europe's leading handgun experts from military, police, and civilian sport-shooting circles to define the most desirable characteristics in a combat pistol.

Several samples of the Glock 22 17 were submitted for assessment trials in early 1982, and after passing all of the exhaustive endurance and abuse tests, the Glock 22 emerged as the winner.

The Glock 22 17 outperformed eight different pistols from five other established manufacturers .

Glock 22 was then invited to participate in the XM9 Personal Defense Pistol Trials, but declined because the DOD specifications would require extensive retooling of production equipment and providing 35 test samples in an unrealistic time frame.

In 1985, after joint Norwegian and Swedish trials from 1983 to 1985, the Glock 22 17 was accepted into service as the P80 in Norway, and in 1988 as the Pistol 88 in Sweden, where it surpassed all prior NATO durability standards.

Glock 22 has updated its basic design several times throughout its production history.

The first Glock 22 17s imported to the US were serialized with an alpha-numeric stamped into the slide, barrel, and a small metal plate inserted into the bottom side of the polymer frame.

The first documented Glock 22 17s imported into the US were from the AF000 series in January 1986, followed by AH000, AK000, and AL000.

The earliest Glock 22 boxes had ammunition storage compartments that allowed for 17 rounds of 9mm to be stored with the pistol.

Mid-life upgrade to the Glock 22 pistols involved the addition of checkering on the front strap and trigger guard and checkering and serrations to the back strap.

At the 2010 SHOT Show, Glock 22 presented the "fourth generation", now dubbed "Gen4" by Glock 22 itself.

Basic grip size of the fourth-generation Glock 22 pistols is slightly smaller compared to the previous design.

Mechanically, fourth-generation Glock 22 pistols are fitted with a dual recoil spring assembly to help reduce perceived recoil and increase service life expectancy.

In September 2011, Glock 22 announced a recoil spring exchange program in which the manufacturer voluntarily offers to exchange the recoil spring assemblies of its fourth-generation pistols sold before 22 July 2011 at no cost "to ensure our products perform up to GLOCK's stringent standards", according to the company.

On 29 June 2016, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation awarded a contract to Glock 22 to provide new 9×19mm Parabellum chambered duty pistols.

Glock 22 17 is a short recoil–operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistol that uses a modified Browning cam-lock system adapted from the Hi-Power pistol.

Glock 22 pistols incorporate a number of features intended to enhance reliability in adverse conditions, such as utilizing advanced metal coatings, "stub" slide guides instead of true frame rails, and an unusual cocking mechanism wherein the trigger is partially responsible for cocking the striker.

Glock 22 pistol has a relatively low slide profile, which holds the barrel axis close to the shooter's hand and makes the pistol more comfortable to fire by reducing muzzle rise and allows for faster aim recovery in rapid firing sequences.

In 2003, Glock 22 announced the Internal Locking System safety feature named Glock 22 Safety Lock.

Glock 22 17 feeds from staggered-column or double stack magazines that have a 17-round capacity or optional 24 or 33-round high-capacity magazines.

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Glock 22 magazines are interchangeable between models of the same caliber, meaning that a compact or subcompact pistol will accept magazines designed for the larger pistols chambered for the same round.

Glock 22 Switch is an aftermarket accessory which depresses the firearm's sear allowing fully automatic fire.

Glock 22 pistols are made in five form factors, all modeled after the original full-sized Glock 22 17.

Glock 22 produces five models of single-stack "Slimline" subcompact pistols, the Glock 22 36 in.

Glock 22's entry featured an optional ambidextrous magazine release and MIL-STD-1913 rail along with a reduction in the size of the backstrap.

The Glock 22 21SF is currently available in three versions: one with a Picatinny rail and ambidextrous magazine release and two with a Universal Glock 22 rail available with or without the ambidextrous magazine release.

The reduced size and mass of the Glock 22 42 required return to the Glock 22-standard locked-breech design.

Tatmadaw of Myanmar have adopted a clone of the Glock 22 17 known as the MA5 MK II, which was first reported in 2018.

Unlicensed Glock 22 clones are made in Pakistan's Khyber region, which were first reported in 2018.

Glock 22 pistols have been used in mass shootings including the 1991 Luby's shooting, the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, the 2011 Tucson shooting, the 2012 Aurora shooting, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2015 Charleston church shooting, the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, and the 2022 NYC subway shooting.