Glocks
Most Glock pistols, except “slimline” models (42, 43, 43X, 48) will go out of production sometime in November of this year, most notably the G19/17!
Not many details forthcoming, but the issue is of course the ecumenical (and illegal) aftermarket “Switch,” which can convert some Glocks (and doubtless Glock clones also) to full-auto.
I’ve no doubt Glock is currently working feverishly to redesign its pistols so as to make their conversion to full-auto more difficult.
As noted above, I’m sure the “Switch issue” is also applicable to any number of other striker-fired pistols. But, apparently no one has yet bothered to design a “Switch” for any, except the Glock.
As expected, there is currently a rush at retailers to buy-up all remaining “conventional” Glocks, as current-production G17/19s are well-vetted, known to be reliable, and no one knows what the “new” Glocks will look like.
In the interim, “conventional” G19/17s will be hard to find!
Then, once the “new design” is “approved” (by bureaucrats who know nothing about guns, nor about self-defense, and couldn’t care less), re-establishing trust and confidence will take a while!
So, there is much concern.
When politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and other non-experts attempt to influence firearms design, we end-up with, for example, maladroit “CA-legal” and “NY-legal” M4s!
“Conventional” Glocks are based on a sound design that has been around for decades and has earned trust and confidence of Operators worldwide.
For now, the prudent will be hanging-on to their “conventional” Glocks, Shadow Systems, Daggers, et al!
/John
