This Old Gun

[fightingquaker13]

Better to have it standard and not require a dremel monkey. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Hi-Point made their carbine to take a Glock mag in 9mm or .45 I'd buy one tommorow. Not out of brand loyalty, but just to get the thirty rounder and a good two gun set. Why they don't is beyond me as I'm sure I am not the only one to feel this way. They are turning down free money. I won't buy their carbine, or the Marlin, with its factory mags. But, as Alf said, for a throw it behind the seat gun, yeah, I'll take one.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

FQ, it may have to do with patent rights on the Magazine design. Gaston seems to be a real hardnose about the business side of things.
To the point that one of his Partners tried to have him whacked.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0331/064.html

  
Inside the secret and violent world of Gaston Glock, maker of the most popular firearm in U.S. law enforcement.
He is the man behind the gun. You don't mess with Gaston Glock.

His most trusted associate allegedly tried. Lured into a dimly lit garage in Luxembourg by his colleague Charles Ewert, the Austrian Glock stopped to look at a sports car at Ewert's suggestion. Suddenly, a massive masked man leaped from behind and smashed a rubber mallet into Glock's skull. Ewert fled to the stairwell. "I am a coward," he later told Forbes. With Glock off balance, the attacker landed another crushing blow. "I was fighting for my life," recalls Glock, 73, during a rare interview with the press.

Springing up on legs toned by miles of daily swimming, Glock thrust his enormous fist into his assailant's eye socket. As the would-be assassin staggered, Glock pounded again, knocking out a few of the man's teeth. The bloodied attacker staggered, then collapsed on top of Glock "with his arms outstretched like Jesus Christ," according to John Paul Frising, Luxembourg's deputy attorney general, who brought attempted murder charges against the attacker, the French-born Jacques (Spartacus) Pêcheur, 67. This was how the police found the two men at 9:30 a.m. on July 27, 1999.

Glock says he lost a quart of blood from cuts and abrasions and that he suffered seven head wounds. Yet as soon as he reached the hospital he summoned his personal bankers at UBS and Banque Ferrier Lullin. The banks held $70 million in cash, and Ewert had access to it all. By 12:30 p.m. Glock managed to move $40 million to a Swiss account. But by then Ewert had blocked the other $30 million with a court order. As he nursed his injuries, Glock wondered how he could have trusted the wrong man.

Last November Ewert was arrested and thrown into a Luxembourg jail, awaiting a Mar. 12 verdict following a three-week nonjury trial for attempted murder. If found guilty, Ewert could face up to 30 years in jail. He maintains his innocence, claiming he was framed--either by one of Glock's lawyers or family members or by the Austrian government--in order to be cheated out of his share of the company.

To appreciate the magnitude of this apparent betrayal, consider that the relationship between the two men had been a factor in the success of Glock GmbH. Ewert, a business consultant who once worked for the Luxembourg stock exchange, worked with Glock for 15 years as Glock's little-known gun became the sidearm of choice for U.S. law enforcement.