Steyr is a famous arms company in Austria and even in the world.
Gun-making is also the company's specialty, and it has developed world-class machine guns, automatic rifles, submachine guns, sniper rifles and pistols.
As early as World War I, the 9mm semi-automatic pistol, the first standard pistol M 19 12 of the Austro-Hungarian Army, was the product of Steyr Company.
In the 1980s, the Austrian army was still equipped with Steyr Pi 18 pistols.
Pi 18 has been equipped in the army for many years. Although the performance is reliable, it is technically outdated and needs to be replaced.
In order to get new orders, Steyr Company developed Steyr GB pistol.
Objectively speaking, GB pistol has good performance, and it is a modified model based on Pi 18.
GB pistol is a first-class pistol, which adopts the working principle of semi-free gun mechanism, and the loading capacity is as high as 18 rounds, with good shooting accuracy and reliability.
GB pistol has not adopted many new technologies, and it is out of date.
At this time, Glock added fuel to the fire and designed a brand-new pistol.
The gun adopts a brand-new design different from GB pistol in appearance and structure, and adopts new materials and new manufacturing level.
As we all know today, this is the famous Glock 17 pistol.
Not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of shopping around. The result of the competition between the two guns was that the GB pistol was defeated, and Glock sadly became an Austrian military standard pistol.