Every single thing he said about the Glock was factually incorrect, and yet people went to the movie and said, "What's a Glock?" Everyone wanted to know what it was. Gun people loved it because, like car people and foodies, they love to find examples of pop culture getting the facts wrong. And from there on, the Glock became Hollywood's favorite gun.

It also became the favorite gun of the ascendant popular music, namely hip-hop music. And if you're familiar with David Foster Wallace, there's a great scene in his most famous book, Infinite Jest, in which a character who is a junior tennis champion intimidates his opponents by coming onto the court and threatening to shoot himself if he loses a point. And Wallace rhapsodizes about the Glock for a paragraph. It's a perfect illustration of how the gun has taken on an aura well beyond its use as an actual weapon.