CHAPTER 6

Helpful coverage of American police departments’ adoption of the Glock includes: “Miami Police Get New Firepower,” United Press International, July 19, 1987; Kevin Diaz, “Faster Pistol for Police Is Gaining Acceptance: Semiautomatics Replace Revolver,” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, September 7, 1987; Gerald Volgenau, “Police Being Outgunned by Lawbreakers,” Knight Ridder, July 3, 1988; Veronica Jennings, “Union Chief Seeks New Police Guns; More Firepower Needed, Officer Says,” Washington Post, September 15, 1988; “Top Cop Wards Off Ban on Super Gun,” New York Post, September 29, 1988; “Police Lift Ban on Gun Ward Carries, a Glock,” New York Times, September 30, 1988; Karla Jennings, “New Gun ‘Ugly,’ But Effective, Police Say,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 13, 1988; Mitch Gelman, “Automatic Guns for NY Narcs,” Newsday, November 28, 1988; Andrew H. Malcolm, “Many Police Forces Rearm to Counter Criminals’ Guns,” New York Times, September 4, 1990; James C. McKinley Jr., “Subway Police to Get New Pistols,” New York Times, December 21, 1990; and William Bratton, “Don’t Knock the Glock,” Newsday, September 25, 1991. The killing of NYPD Officer Scott Gadell was described by Robert D. McFadden in “Wide Hunt for Killer of Officer,” New York Times, June 30, 1986, and “Memory of a Fallen Officer,” New York Times, May 31, 1992. For background on Samuel Colt, see, e.g., William Hosley, “Gun, Gun Culture, and the Peddling of Dreams,” in Dizard, Muth, and Andrews, eds., Guns in America: A Reader, pp. 47–85, and Wills’s The Illustrated History of Weaponry, pp. 130–133.