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Carter repairs and sells parts for these prized handguns. He is a Glock “armorer” certified with Glock to work with police and to do parts and repairs for the public.

Glock, an Austrian manufacturer that has only been making guns since 1986, is now the biggest handgun manufacturer in the world. While familiar to the public from lurid news stories about plastic guns and armor piercing supposed copkiller bullets, Carter remarked that 73 percent of law enforcement officers use Glocks, “because of their reliability, dependability and ease of maintenance.”

“They are popular because of their just stupid dependability and simplicity,” continued Carter, “and because they have a very large variety of calibers and models.” And, Carter noted, the controversial bullets aren’t sold anymore.

Big gun fim

If you get a thrill out of high caliber military type hardware, for a mere $2,999.00 you can get an Armalite AR 50. The big 50 caliber rifle was originally designed for light armor, radar installations and the like. “But when they discovered how accurate they are, that’s when they started putting together teams for long distance shooting,” Carter said. Stunningly accurate, a skilled sharpshooter can put eight rounds within a 10inch circle from over a thousand yards with the AR50. And for pure manly destructive fun, they’ve got a huge wallop, shooting rounds as big as a magic

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