Homerboy
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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.
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.