What's In A Number?

Over the weekend I had a revelation. I'd commented before about the similarities between Glock and Smith & Wesson handguns for numbers. Then I sat down at the Glock website and looked at their product line. I started filling in the corresponding S&Ws that I recognized off that bat, and dug a little deeper.

Being a super geek, I tossed it into an Excel spreadsheet, and filled it out some more. Eventually, I came up with this:

Every Glock pistol has a corresponding Smith & Wesson handgun, with all but one being a revolver. Obviously this is not the entire Smith & Wesson line, but I can't think of any additional Glocks out there (aside from the rumored G40, the .22LR full size - which would correspond to the S&W J-frame hammerless...). Very little matches up, obviously, given that one company makes exclusively semi-automatic handguns and the other only had one semi-auto in the whole list; I just thought it was interesting that there was a S&W for every Glock number extant.

Smith & Wessons just happen to look a lot better doing what they do...

That is all.