New Glock Model 42

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If they are not scaled with each other, why would they put a Zippo lighter in the picture? I see no reason for it to be anything other than a locked breech 380 pocket pistol. It makes no sense for them to make it a blowback design, when most of the best in the competition has a locked breech.
 
The man that is speaking Portuguese is probably from Brazil and does not in any way represent the American gun market. People in Brazil and many Latin American countries can not have a gun with same caliber as their police. Glock makes these guns for a totally different market. We can purchase house guns or carry guns in any caliber and size we want. They can not. Just because this gun is a blowback in no way is an indication that the Glock 42 is a Blowback gun. American shooters will not buy a gun like that, when other gun makers are offering much better guns that are locked breach with less recoil and less force to rack the slide on a small pocket gun. I fail to see the relevance of this video as it is out of context to the Glock 42 especially made for the American market. My 2 cents
 
^The video proves that the 25/28 is not a blowback operated gun. Period...

The 42 isn't going to be some revolutionary design count on that...
 
I got my info about the 25 and the 28 from the Glock Talk forum. But IGB makes 9mm barrel conversions for those 2 guns and I always thought "Holy Cow what would it be like shooting 9mm direct blowback from a gun the size of the Glock 26"
 
I know Wikipedia can be wrong but it says the 25 and the 28 are straight blowback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock

Did you notice that there is metal missing from the barrel hood compared to the G26? Look at the top toward the muzzle, it's like there is a cutout. 9mm Glock barrels have maybe a 1/8" cutout there but that 380 barrel looks like a 1/5" or maybe even a quarter inch.
 
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^The video proves that the 25/28 is not a blowback operated gun. Period...
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It shows that it does not have a fixed barrel like most blowback operated guns, but it doesn't prove it's not blowback operated.

The 25 & 28 are blowback operated because the locking lug is milled off the barrel. So while it looks like a locked breech system, there is no locking mechanism.

http://eu.glock.com/english/glock28.htm
 
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Really? Their last foray into something new, is their biggest flop... (G36)
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The 36 wasn't their most recent.

The 37, 38, 39 and 30S all came after the 36....

Which of these was the biggest Glock flop?
 
I would prefer to see a compact 10mm Glock between the G20 and G29 before seeing a single stack 9mm. Glock dropped the ball on getting to that market.
 
If they made a single stack version on the 26, or a single stack version of the 21, they would sell millions.
 
I was hoping for something more. More specifically a 9mm. I thought I'd do a quick compare now that we have some specs between the G42 and its competition. Unfortunately the Glock doesn't shine compared to others. Look at the height and OAL! Why they decided to jump into the 380 game now is a mystery. :banghead:
For the heck of it I thought I would also compare it to small 9mm models incase they decided to rechamber it later on.

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