Even if a pistol that was completely undetectable by either x ray machines or metal detectors were to be developed the ammunition inside.
Die hard ceramic glock.
It s easy to make the frame or magazine of a gun out of some non metal polymer but things like the barrel and the pins are under way too much heat and pressure to be made of anything but good old fashioned metal.
First glock pistol was glock 17 the gun digest book of the glock by patrick sweeney chapter 9.
First off there isn t a glock 7 but more importantly there s no such thing as an entirely ceramic handgun.
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Contrary to popular movies like die hard 2 neither glock nor any other gun maker has ever produced a porcelain ceramic or plastic firearm which is undetectable by ordinary security screening devices.
Rather than constructing custom guns to portray the fictional pistol first generation glock 17s were used as a stand in.
The only downside to this amazing weapon is the price which is quite expensive.
Made in germany this firearm is constructed entirely of porcelain is capable of passing through airport metal detectors completely unnoticed.
The purpose of non metallic gun would be to not be detected via metal detectors rather than x ray machines which can detect any dense object regardless if it s.
The ceramic pistol is a reference to the inaccurate description of glock pistols in the 1990 action thriller die hard 2 where bruce willis character john mcclane describes them as a porcelain gun made in germany that doesn t show up on your airport metal detectors and costs more than you make in a month.
Glock is austrian not german company.
The real msrp is unknown but experts say that they cost more than the dulles international airport police.
A handgun popularized by the movie die hard 2.