Why doesnt GLOCK

You can get a stock, and I'm sure barrel extensions are available.

write glock seriosuly, the carbine market seems to be expanding these days, and I am sure the LE market would end up buying some simply because they have had good experiences with Glock

It would probably give the High Point a run for the title of world's ugliest carbine too!

Because the designer are smoking Crack and don't care what we want

Seriously - there are threads going back years on this topic on all the forums. Every so often, we hear that there will be some big announcement from Glock, and the talk of a carbine has gone on for years and years. They just don't seem to care.

Makes sense to me, just change furniture. After all, Anton Glock is an Austrian Furniture Manufacturer and makes pistols as a sideline.

Here's an update for anybody reading this thread...

Olympic Arms makes two AR-15 carbines that use Glock magazines and shoot 9 mm or .40 S&W pistol ammo. You can own a pistol and a carbine that uses the same magazines and the same ammo. Just go to the Olympic Arms sight and check out all their products if you want a carbine that uses Glock magazines and pistol ammo.

No, I do NOT work for Olympic Arms.

A kel-tec sub 2000 fills that same nich rather nicley and uses glock magazines aswell.

" Makes sense to me, just change furniture. After all, Anton Glock is an Austrian Furniture Manufacturer and makes pistols as a sideline."

i thought his name was GASTON glock and he was a BICYCLE manufacturer ??
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Glock made plastic shower curtain rods and ammo cans, before making pistols.

So why doesn't GLOCK make a semiauto carbine in 9mm-extend the frame and barrel of the G17...

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I don't think a 16" barrel would work well, if at all, with a browning type action like the Glock has, where the whole barrel is tilted back during recoil.

Even if they did make one, would the BATFE allow them to import it, since they wouldnt consider it a "sporting" firearm?

Mech Tech makes a carbine upper for Glock pistols. I have been looking at them pretty seriously, but I just discovered the Olympic Arms AR that takes the Glock mags. I think that might be a better idea.

"It would probably give the High Point a run for the title of world's ugliest carbine too!"

Regardless of your thoughts about the GLOCK, I don't think this statement adds anything useful to this thread.

There's the Mech Tech CCU.

As was mentioned above, a great many small manufacturers make GLOCK stocks, and there are also many that make 16" barrels.
You can even purchase GLOCK foregrips, and also magazine holders mounted on the rails that can act as foregrips.

That said, GLOCK has made it clear that they do not care about the civilian market. So I don't think you should wait until GLOCK wisens up and produces a carbine, just get the CCU or customize the GLOCK you already have.

So why doesn't GLOCK make a semiauto carbine

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Even as we speak, researchers at Gaston Glock's alpine mountain lair are hard at work trying to devise the exactly perfect grip angle for a long gun to annoy 90% of the shooting public. As soon as they get that worked out, the Glock carbine should be hitting our shores by the boatload.

I don't think a 16" barrel would work well, if at all, with a browning type action like the Glock has, where the whole barrel is tilted back during recoil.

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If you Google "16" Glock barrel" you'll get this page as the first hit. It appears to use a recoil booster similar to what some suppressors use.

If I were going to buy another title I pistol caliber carbine though, a 16" barreled converted Glock pistol would be pretty far down my list. There's plenty of other guns that fill that role much better.

Are the Olympic Arms Glock mag carbines really available?I saw them a couple of years ago when they came out.But since then nothing.......

GLOCK CARBINE!!!

What is this 1993 again? Time has run backwards.

Somewhere deep inside his BergFestung in EastEmpire Herr Glock considers a Glock karbine:

*Darth Vader music plays, Herr Glocken rides around on a Segway petting white cat dressed like Fearless Leader*: "Meinen waffen isten perfekten!!! Tellen shut up fat Americanish hunden."

I don't think a 16" barrel would work well, if at all, with a browning type action like the Glock has, where the whole barrel is tilted back during recoil.

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Not a problem -- the longer the barrel between the forward support and locking point, the shallower the tilt angle needed to unlock. That's why short-barreled tilting barrel guns can have problems.

With the long barrel in a tilting barrel gun, the problem is mass. The recoil energy may not reliably cycle such a massive barrel.

I don't quite understand why everyone seems to want to see Glock make a carbine, specifically...

I don't quite understand why everyone seems to want to see Glock make a carbine, specifically...

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For the same reason the chicken crossed the road -- to prove to the possum that it could be done.

Even as we speak, researchers at Gaston Glock's alpine mountain lair are hard at work trying to devise the exactly perfect grip angle for a long gun to annoy 90% of the shooting public. As soon as they get that worked out, the Glock carbine should be hitting our shores by the boatload.

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That doesn't add anything positive to the thread Horse Soldier!



This guy's waiting for the Glock carbine too. Auto pistol caliber carbines are so passe. His wrist anatomy probably prefers Herr Glock's chosen angle too.

Even if they did make one, would the BATFE allow them to import it, since they wouldnt consider it a "sporting" firearm?

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Beretta sells the Storm here--just do whatever they did? (Made in US or thumbhole stock? Gun control laws never work...and sometimes that's a good thing.)

I have been waiting for a Glock carbine forever. I think the reason they don't make one is that it is not as easy as it seems. You can get a long barrel and shoulder stock (NFA rules apply), but this isn't really what we want. However to get what we want would probably require a completely different action and that wouldn't really be what we want so they are not going to bother.

Beretta sells the Storm here--just do whatever they did? (Made in US or thumbhole stock? Gun control laws never work...and sometimes that's a good thing.)

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Easier said than done... Beretta already has manufacturing facilities here in the States, since its a requirement for the military's M9 procurement. So adding another model to the production line isnt that tough.

I was under the impression that all Glocks are made overseas, so that would be a big obstacle.