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Source Notes
CHAPTER 1
For my description of the 1986 Miami Shootout, I drew from FBI files available online under the title “Shooting Incident 4/11/86 MIAMI, FL,” as well as local newspaper coverage from April 1986 in the Miami Herald , the Palm Beach Post , and the Sun-Sentinel . These retrospective articles were also helpfuclass="underline" Will Lester, “One Year Later, Vivid Memories of FBI’s Bloodiest Shootout Linger,” Associated Press, April 10, 1987, and “FBI Developing New Semiautomatic Weapon for Agents,” Sunday Oklahoman , December 10, 1989. Massad Ayoob’s The Ayoob Files provides a forensic analysis of the gunfight on pp. 195–223.
CHAPTER 2
The opening chapters of Peter Alan Kasler’s Glock: The New Wave in Combat Handguns offer a company-authorized account of Glock’s early years. Walter Rauch, “Glock: Gun of the Future,” Glock Autopistols (2002), pp. 76–79, provides another concise history as the company would have it told. Peter G. Kokalis’s article “Plastic Perfection,” Soldier of Fortune , October 1984, helped introduce Glock to American gun buyers. These reference books also have useful background, although some of it is technicaclass="underline" Patrick Sweeney, The Gun Digest Book of the Glock and The Complete Glock Reference Guide (Ptooma Productions, 3d edition, 2006). I have drawn on a helpful (and rare) interview of Gaston Glock published by Forbes on March 31, 2003, entitled “Top Gun,” by Dyan Machan.
CHAPTER 3
For background on the history of firearms in the United States, I recommend Guns in America: A Reader , especially pp. 1–8 and all of the other explanatory passages written by the editors, Jan E. Dizard, Robert Merril Muth, and Stephen P. Andrews Jr. Another accessible reference work is Chuck Wills (in association with the Berman Museum), The Illustrated History of Weaponry , especially pp. 152–155, 178–179, and 194–197. One of my favorite writers about guns in America is the essayist and critic Henry Allen—for example, “The Mystique of Guns: From Daniel Boone to Dirty Harry, America’s Fascination with Firearms,” Washington Post , April 19, 1989.
CHAPTER 4
As noted in the text, I drew heavily from the October 1984 Soldier of Fortune piece by Kokalis, “Plastic Perfection.” I also relied on Sweeney’s Gun Digest Book of the Glock , especially pp. 78–83, and on Wills’s Illustrated History of Weaponry , p. 153.
CHAPTER 5
The plastic-pistol controversy was ignited by syndicated columns by Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, including “Qaddafi Buying Austrian Plastic Pistols,” Washington Post , January 15, 1986; “Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Plastic Pistols,” Washington Post , March 14, 1986; and “Concern Growing Over Plastic Pistol,” Washington Post , April 18, 1986. Other important coverage of the affair included editorials such as “Hijacker’s Special?,” New York Times , February 9, 1986, and “Pass Laws to Ban Plastic Handguns,” USA Today , February 27, 1986. I also relied on the following articles: Josh Sugarmann, “Progress Gives Us Great New Handgun: Hijacker Special,” Los Angeles Times , March 24, 1986; Gayle White, “Partly Plastic Gun Comes Under Fire: Critics Say Pistol Would Help Terrorists Evade Metal Detectors,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution , May 1, 1986; Robert J. Mrazek, “The Deadly Truth About Plastic Guns,” Washington Post , May 15, 1986; “Lincoln Mayor Sponsors Resolution: Call for Ban on Plastic Guns Triggers Response by NRA,” Associated Press, June 17, 1986; and Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr., “Washington Talk: Gun-Control Struggle,” New York Times , December 7, 1986.
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.