Glock 19 Gen 2 On The Way-For Old Time’s Sake

[Homerboy]

Years ago, I carried a Gen 2 Glock 19 as a NYC cop. Didn’t know much about guns at the time and we had 3 guns to choose from. The Glock 19, S&W 5946, and the Sig 226 DAO. We bought our guns back then, and I recall the Glock was $325, the 5946 around $525, and the Sig a little over $600. Gun choosing was 3 minutes at a table handling each one. I chose the Glock, mostly for the cost.

I sold that gun after I retired, and kind of missed it since, just for the nostalgia. So I’m browsing gunbroker and type in NYPD. I like collecting PD guns and I have several. Gen 2 Glock 19 pops up. Serial number is only 160 away from my duty gun, so most assuredly from the same class in the academy. My friend’s gun was 5 away from mine.

I overpaid probably, but I knew I wouldn’t find one so close to my old one. That class was 2400
Recruits, and well over half of them chose the Glock due to the cost. A few years later some federal grant was passed and the guns were free. The recruit just had to pay for night sights.

So there’s a Glock on the way. Never a huge fan but certainly a capable gun. I have a Ruger PC9 that uses Glock mags so it made sense to add a Glock to the family again.

 

[Riomouse911]

Sometimes it’s nice to go back in time a bit with an old gun, I’ve bought a few over the years for nostalgic reasons like you did. It brings me back to the time when all I had to worry about was myself and being active enough to make my patrol Sergeants happy.

I’m glad you were able to find a close copy for your former duty gun. Back when we swapped out the Gen 3 Glock 19’s we were issued for Gen 4’s, we were allowed to buy our Gen 3 gun for the same price the buyer was paying for them. I got mine for $215 bucks, and it still shoots as well for me today as it did when I got it new 16 years ago.

Let us know how your NYPD Glock shoots for you when you get a chance to exercise it a bit.

Stay safe.

 

[Homerboy]

Sometimes it’s nice to go back in time a bit with an old gun, I’ve bought a few over the years for nostalgic reasons like you did. It brings me back to the time when all I had to worry about was myself and being active enough to make my patrol Sergeants happy.

I’m glad you were able to find a close copy for your former duty gun. Back when we swapped out the Gen 3 Glock 19’s we were issued for Gen 4’s, we were allowed to buy our Gen 3 gun for the same price the buyer was paying for them. I got mine for $215 bucks, and it still shoots as well for me today as it did when I got it new 16 years ago.

Let us know how your NYPD Glock shoots for you when you get a chance to exercise it a bit.

Stay safe.

Will do! Hoping to have it in hand by end of the week so I foresee a quick range trip Saturday. I’m sure it has the heavy NY trigger (the orange one). I’m probably gonna take that out. We had the original NY1 trigger (it was grey) when I got the gun. A few years later I recall them taking our guns at qualification and putting the orange one in. Made the trigger pull very heavy, like a staple gun almost. I intend to put the grey one in. Don’t need or want a light trigger on the gun. I imagine shooting maybe 200 rounds a year of my reloads out of it, and that’s it. Never gonna carry it. I have others for that.

 

[Speedo66]

Good fortune finding a similar Glock to the one you had!

The state agency I retired from in NYC also had us buy our own guns from a uniform allowance, unfortunately no discount equipment bureau like you had.

I've still got my Gen 2 1/2 G26 with the same NY++ orange trigger, just used to it by now. But even that has been replaced as an EDC with a LCP.

Good luck with your new gun!

 

[wnycollector]

HomerBoy congratulations on your new acquisition. I collect ex LEO guns also. If you had started with NYPD a few years before you did, you could have carried one of these, a M64 NY-1.

 

[JDeere]

Congrats on finding what you were looking for. Price is irrelevant for something you want. Nothing wrong at all with a Gen 2 19. My wife bought one back when they first came out for a CC weapon. Damn fine and accurate as can be. We still have it and it will never leave the herd. I take it out from time to time and run it for a 100 rounds or so and I'm still amazed at how well she shoots.