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Glock17
9MM MID-FULL SIZE 9mm pistols can carry a lot of rounds, have a moderate recoil and are affordable to train with due to the low cost of ammunition. Glock 17 a polymer-framed, short recoil operated, locked breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Glock Ges.m.b.H., located in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. It entered Austrian military and police service by 1982. Despite initial resistance from the market to accept a "plastic gun" due to durability and reliability concerns, and fears that the pistol would be "invisible" to metal detectors in airports, Glock pistols have become the company's most profitable line of products, commanding 65% of the market share of handguns for United States law enforcement agencies as well as supplying numerous national armed forces and security agencies worldwide. Glocks are also popular firearms amongst civilians for recreational/competition shooting, home/self defense and concealed/open carry.
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Iran petitioned the International Court of Justice last month to consider whether sanctions the U.S. has begun reimposing as part of its withdrawal from the Obama-era Iranian nuclear deal violate a little-known 1955 friendship agreement between the nations. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Adm. John M. Richardson, Naval operations chief, said the 2nd Fleet holds a legendary role from the Cold War and is well-postured to curb Russian expansionism today. (U.S. Navy photograph)
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Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives leave the family home, in Baltimore, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, of the suspect in a mass shooting earlier in the day in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Mr. McCain embraced a former war enemy, Col. Bui Tin of North Vietnam, after a POW/MIA hearing on Capitol Hill in 1991. Col. Tin oversaw a military prison operation dubbed the "Hanoi Hilton," where McCain was held prisoner during the Vietnam War. (Associated Press photographs)
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Mr. McCain held up an article from the Washington Times during a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs on June 24, 1992. The senator never stopped fighting for the return of his comrades.
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In this Dec. 1, 1992, photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, listens to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a former POW in Vietnam, during a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Arizona Sen. McCain, the war hero who became the GOP's standard-bearer in the 2008 election, has died. He was 81. His office says McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He had battled brain cancer. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon shared her vision for "Heavenly Africa" at the Africa Summit in Dakar, Senegal. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC)
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Smoke rises from a house where attackers are hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. The Taliban fired rockets toward the presidential palace in Kabul Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani was giving his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha, said police official Jan Agha. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) **FILE**
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An MD 530F military helicopter targets a house where suspected attackers were hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gen. John Nicholson said President Trump's reset of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is beginning to bear fruit. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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According to a Pentagon report, China fears North Korea's provocative nuclear and missile tests will set off a regional conflict. Beijing wants stability, a denuclearized peninsula and no U.S. forces near its borders. (Associated Press)
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One of the jobs of the Douglas C-47 aircraft during World War II was to carry paratroops into combat. (Image: World War II History Museum) ** FILE **
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Benghazi terror attack survivor Kris "Tanto" Paronto told Twitter followers on Aug. 16, 2018, that former CIA director John Brennan revoked his security clearance for trying to tell Americans the truth about what happened in Libya. (Image: Twitter, Kris Paronto, profile picture)
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An injured man is put into an ambulance following a suicide bombing that targeted a training class in a private building in western Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The public Health Ministry said there were at least 48 dead and dozens wounded. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Russian Missiles Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Critics say that an editorial war declared on President Trump by 350 newspapers for Thursday could be a bust for multiple reasons. (Associated press)
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In this Sunday, March 30, 2014, file photo, Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)
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A structure and vehicles burn in the wake of the Oak Fire Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, near Grass Valley, Calif. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)
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In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, Afghan security personnel patrol in the city of Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban assault on Ghazni, a key city linking areas of Taliban influence barely 75 miles from Kabul, has killed about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers since Friday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. A year after the Trump administration introduced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Taliban are asserting themselves on the battlefield even as U.S. officials talk up hopes for peace. That’s raising questions about the viability of the American game plan for ending a war that began when some of the current U.S. troops were in diapers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)
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A tear-gas canister explodes as riot police try to clear Victoria Square during Friday's protests outside the government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania. Romanian authorities say hundreds of people including two dozen riot police were injured. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
