I need to correct my last post. It was more like $75.00 per pistol to manufacture and sell to the U.S. public at 500.00 Some reading of an old article put out by Forbes:
..."The U.S. police business was once dominated by Smith & Wesson and Beretta. Then in 1985 along came Glock with a gun made from a nylon resin that was tough enough to be made into most parts of a pistol (except the carbon steel barrel). The Glock was also revolutionary for its simple design--34 parts, compared with 60 or so for the Smith & Wesson .45 caliber semiautomatic--and its 24-ounce weight, to 25.4 ounces for the Smith & Wesson. A Glock shooter experiences a softer recoil because the gun's polymer frame flexes slightly when it's fired. Glock fans include the New York City police, U.S. Special Forces, the FBI and many international antiterrorist units.
These days Glock GmbH has an estimated $100 million in sales, two-thirds of it from the trigger-happy United States
. A gun that retails for $500 can be manufactured for $75, and the company has a pretax margin nearing 60%, estimates John Farnam of Defense Training International, a LaPorte, Colo. small arms instructor.
Success has not made Glock, a highly secretive and taciturn man, any more trusting of the people around him. He has a few very high-profile friends. Among them: Pope John Paul II and Jörg Haider, former leader of Austria's ultraright Freedom Party and a Hitler admirer. At his lakefront mansion in Velden, Austria, Glock's favorite room is in the basement, where he can control the smallest detail of his home's inner workings, including the temperature of the tiles in his upstairs bathroom. He flies his own Cessna Citation jet wherever he travels. "There are fewer crazy people in the air," he says. "
If you want, you can read the whole article (older article) here at this link:
http://www.thehighro...ad.php?t=321263 or more recently at the Sigforum back in Sept of 2010 here:
http://sigforum.com/...35/m/4270026322
It also talked about Glock's association with Jörg Haider, former leader of Austria's ultraright Freedom Party and a Hitler admirer.
I carried a Glock when I was a Deputy, but I won't carry one again. I was not that impressed with them, and that is simply my opinion of shooting and experience. One of the keys to the softer recoil on the Glock, was that the polymer frame flexed and made for a softer recoil. Perhaps that also happens somewheat with the Sig SP2022 9mm pistol?