FBI Selects Glock. What model?

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Can you imagine the mad rush by the fanboys when the 'FBI Model' hits the civilian market, LOL. Every Tactical Ninja will have to have one or two.
 
Cops like Glocks as they are simple, just point and pull. Wonder if they will have the narrower slide like the 41 ?
With all the ladies now in the ranks, they had to reduce the recoil so they could handle them, thus the 9mm. Also bigger mag capacities so they can spray and pray.
 
crashdummy said:
Cops like Glocks as they are simple, just point and pull. Wonder if they will have the narrower slide like the 41 ?
With all the ladies now in the ranks, they had to reduce the recoil so they could handle them, thus the 9mm. Also bigger mag capacities so they can spray and pray.
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I think it's cute when people project.
 
My brother started out with the bureau carrying a S&W 13 3", when he retired he carried a G-23. I think he said they were going with 9x19 now.
 
The finger groves were to help with import regulations, same as those stupid groves on the trigger!

That every one changes. And remember, the Glock pistols passed all the torture tests, no other gun did.

The one part that never is spoken about, the Glock magazines are the best made.
 
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I wouldn't object to Glock eliminating finger grooves which were first added simply to gain enough points for the small G26/27 pistols to qualify for importation.
Since Glock now produces pistols here in the U.S. the finger grooves are superfluous.
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Superfluous? Finger groove haters aside, I think most people like them being there. I know I do. For me, they help the gun “stick” to my hand during recoil, and
help me with follow up shots. Just like the texture. I think Glock got the grip right with the Gen 4, finger grooves and all.
 
crashdummy said:
Cops like Glocks as they are simple, just point and pull. Wonder if they will have the narrower slide like the 41 ?
With all the ladies now in the ranks, they had to reduce the recoil so they could handle them, thus the 9mm. Also bigger mag capacities so they can spray and pray.
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When I was a LEO spray and pray was exactly what we were taught. Just pull your gun and empty it as fast as you can. In fact, we didn't bother using targets in our range as hitting what we were shooting at didn't matter. We were scored exclusively on how fast we emptied the magazine.
 
alleycat7002 said:
Lets see Tupperware in 50 yrs...bet it be crap unlike a metal gun

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Glocks have been on the market for 30 years, gen 1s are still going strong. HK beat them to the polymer pistol market by a few years, they are still going strong. There were "plastic" stocked rifles more than 20 years before that, still going strong.
 
We see...I stick to my Sig...just dont like polymer..had a couple they ok

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In a few years their trainers...like a lot of those in PDs, will get worried about job security, and find fault with whatever caliber and model is being issued...testing and trials will begin again. Writers will have something new to write about, various shhoting schools will change recommendations and tactics...the circle of life will continue.

Not powerful enough
Too powerful
Too much wear and tear
Expansion failures
Over penetration
Under penetration
Lack of practice ammo

Doom! Gloom! Time to change!!!
 
Let's see; late last year or early this year - at my time of life it's all a haze - the FBI issued a statement they were going back to 9x19mm pistols. They mentioned recoil in the statement, so one understands the latest hires couldn't handle the recoil of a serious caliber. The statement also mentioned 'capacity', which means the agency cannot be bothered to properly train - or have abandoned the attempt to train - employees to be adequately accurate.

Now, they've selected Glock pistols. The 9x19mm, high capacity pistol Glock makes - not sure which incarnation - is a double stack, wide gripped pistol. This wide grip pistol works in opposition to small hands and 'control'. Therefore, under any but orchestrated-qualifications-using-two-hands conditions, the employees are going to be handicapped, still.

Some bureaucrat decision maker stepped on another bureaucrat decision maker's toes. Oops.

Reading the next episode will be amusing, I'm sure.
 
You know the FBI has been using the Glock 22 and 23 since 1997. So the trainers that were there then have probably pretty much retired by now. Nor does going from a Glock .40 to a Glock 9mm really require much training.
 
Yeah.,,,I was working for a drug task force in the 90s, we were issued G23s in 96 when I started, (I have a varied resume)...but I'm certain a new training plan will be written..or has been rather for the new weapons....and the testing took up years and got a lot of names noticed.
 
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If the gun is reliable and easily maintained, it really doesn't matter what it's made from. Everything ages, but water bottles will still be in land fills 100 years from now, I highly doubt that a metal gun buried in dirt would still be there in any condition to be usable, so neither of them would work, being that a Glock is 80% metal.
 
96.3% of Gen 5 Glock 19s throw brass in a boomerang pattern which then inevitably impedes the follow-up shot's flight trajectory. Serious issue which only the immediate replacement of all MIM will solve.


Just putting this out there so when they release the next Glock, I can say that I was first on the Internet to warn everyone of their impending Glock doom.
 
guyfromohio said:
96.3% of Gen 5 Glock 19s throw brass in a boomerang pattern which then inevitably impedes the follow-up shot's flight trajectory. Serious issue which only the immediate replacement of all MIM will solve.


Just putting this out there so when they release the next Glock, I can say that I was first on the Internet to warn everyone of their impending Glock doom.
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It is a shame they likely use that unwanted "metal" to save a few bucks, rather than just raise the selling price a few dollars and keep the same component quality as ~8+ years ago.

Fortunately one can replace the unwanted with preferred options:
https://www.lonewolfdist.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=155971&TERM=extractor
https://www.lonewolfdist.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=796451&TERM=striker
https://www.lonewolfdist.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=919399&TERM=locking%20block
 
So it only took 30 years for the finest investigative service in the world to figure out that if seals used Glocks they must be good? They could have asked half the civilian population.
 
I agree with rskent, and like the finger grooves. The gun just feels more secure in my hand.

As to the FBI selection, they have chosen wisely.
 
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