New Glock Possabilities

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G50AE

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I have heard a few rumors about new products from Glock.

-A 357SIG caliber version of the G35,
-A ported barrel for the G35 similar to the one on the G24C,
-A 10mm version of the G36,
-Colored magazine floorplates in colors other than the current black and orange.

anyone else hear anything?

It does not seem that any of these ideas would require lots of R&D.
 
Rumors--no, unfortunately.

But wishes--yes! I'd like to see a Glock in .38 Super. In fact, it could and should be the Glock 38. ;)
 
I heard that Glock is coming out with a compact, single stack .45 ACP. Estimated shipping date is last November.

Check the official Glock website for more up-to-date Glock info! :p
 
these don't really sound like rumors as much as they do dreams. i know i'd like one of those G35s in .357sig. also pearce grips makes different colored baseplates for the mags if you want.

changing .40cal guns to .357sig and .45cal guns to 10mm isn't very hard (just a new barrel) i'm not sure why they don't do this but maybe some time in the future they will.

i would like to see a single stack version of the 26, 27, and 33. it could hold something like 6 rounds and be a real pocket gun.
 
Unfortunately, We'll prob never see a single stack 26/27/33. There are pretty strick import requirements about small guns. Any gun must meet minimum size and "sporting purpose" specs. The 26/27/33 all have:
1) Grooved "target" triggers
2) Grooved "target" stocks

And I was told (but can't proove) that all Glocks come into this country with adjustable "target" sights to meet the import restrictions, and are then changed over to the fixed sights for sale.

I was told that a single stack 26/27/33 would be too small to meet these "sporting purpose" import restrictions. :(

Anybody able to back this up?
 
The big question is, "Will Glock make any changes to handle the nasty new Massachusetts gun law, which may very well be copied by several other states, or will they just give up on the civilian market :( ?"
 
Glock will NOT give up the civilian market. That's a rumor that must have been spawned by HCI and just won't die. Glock has way too much invested in the civilian market to ever consider pulling out.

As for other states adopting Mass. style regs, they may . . . if we sit on our butts. Remember, the Mass. AG passed regulations pursuant to a law granting him that (abusive) power. TN doesn't have anything like that, and won't if I have anything to say about it. Are you going to fight for your state? If not, then go ahead and sell your Glocks (and anything else you've got) now, and give the money to someone who will fight (NRA, GOA, etc).

I'm getting a little sick of the defeatist attitudes I'm hearing with gunowners. "Well, we've lost CA, NJ, and Mass., I guess it's over!" The choice now is to fight or bend over, and I don't bend.
 
Jared,

Yes, I was joking. The Glock website seems to be in permanent limbo and the G36 has been "coming soon" for at least half a year now.

I now have an "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude towards rumors of new Glock products.
 
Pete:

Regarding the MA law, the rumor that I've heard (directly from a police chief in MA who has spoken with Glock) is that Glock will manufacture models to meet the MA regs. The changes involved will be:

1) a larger extractor with some paint on it (which will thus be a chamber-loaded indicator),

2) a NY Plus trigger, which will give a trigger weight above 10 lbs, and

3) the serial number stamped in a second super secret place.

The problem, of course, is that Glock is not going to make these changes standard on all guns, therefore they will have to convince distributors to carry the MA-legal guns and to distinguish them from the non-MA-legal guns.

Given how "well" Glock has been at supplying their guns recently, I'm not holding my breath.

Jared
 
M1911, and of course you could retro fit a regular trigger and the regular extractor on a MA legal Glock.

It would also not surprise me if Glock decided to put that second super secret serial number on all of their frames. (so what?) That way you could switch any Glock to MA configuration, because of the ease in maintenance of the Glock line.
 
G50AE: Yup, you're absolutely correct. You can swap the trigger springs in minutes, the parts are cheap and available. No real need to swap out the extractor, near as I can tell.

I don't see any downside to the second, hidden, serial number. It seems pointless to me, but it's not going to bother me if my gun has one.

My main point is that Glock seems to be unable to supply enough of its current models to dealers. So how are they going to be able to supply 2x models (standard models and MA-legal models)?

Jared
 
G, one would think that I am a Glock fan. :D

M1911, yes I agree, glock is not going to make two different lines, probably they will add that super secret serial number, the location of which will be revealed on the official Glock website :D, to all of their pistols. Most likely the Mass configured ones will be fitted with the corect components at Smyrna before shipment to MA.

Rainbow six, my thoughts exactly.
 
Gino,

At the Glock Armorer's School I attended in November of last year, they mentioned the grooved triggers as a way around import restrictions, as well as the adjustabel sights. The instructor said there is a crate of those adjustable sights that have come over on thousands of Glocks, only to be removed and shipped back to Austria so they could come back again.

I suspect the idea that a single stack 26/27/etc would be hard to import is true, given the idiocy of the "sporting purposes" requirements.
 
Gino, you are correct. BATF rules prohibit much in the way of small PD type pistols and Gaston ain't gonna pay taxes in the USA.

Some where on the web I have seen the BATF rules and how Glock get's around them within reason (for Glock that is). The "target" trigger and "target" grips (an improvement) are placations to BATF "rules".
 
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