Gingershooter
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Sadly when you Google glock 19x with peanut butter this is all you get, guess I have to have a photoshoot with oneBro if it ain't Smuckers......
Sadly when you Google glock 19x with peanut butter this is all you get, guess I have to have a photoshoot with oneBro if it ain't Smuckers......
I’m not sure how Glock expected to win the contract seeing as how it didn’t actually meet the contract requirements.
The army was looking for a modular handgun that could change size or caliber. (personally I always thought it was BS that the army didn’t decide which caliber to use before testing weapons, but it was obvious to me they wrote the contract with the p320 in mind, same as the last FBI contract.)
The 19x isn’t modular in size or caliber. it didn’t meet the contract requirements.
now I think the FBI did it right when Glock offered them gen 5’s without finger grooves and polygonal barrels(Apprently their two big sticking points), and saved a bunch of money on tests and subsequent lawsuits. I kinda wish the army had taken beretta up on their offer of m9a3’s at the same price, or as one General proposed just expand existing contracts for Glock. Either would have resulted in far less circus acts and at least one lawsuit. (which the marines and navy both already had smaller contracts with Glock and could have followed suit).
as far as the xm9 trials, since double action first shot was a requirement-again, glocks didn’t meet the contract requirement. Nevermind that the whole trial was a spin-off of Air Force trials(completed before glocks were introduced), who had already adopted the beretta 92. Which, I always found it interesting both the m16 and m9 were essentially chosen by the air force, and then later adopted by the other branches, but anyways.
and really, at the end of the day, and maybe my bias is showing, but I always thought the marines did it extra right by not wasting time and money on offensive handgun/joint service/spec ops/modular handgun pony shows and instead found backdoor adoption of the hk416(SAW supplement), and experiments with mass issuing of suppressors. I feel both of those endeavors paid better dividends to the average shithead grunt and his/her ability to make it home for Mother’s Day than a peanut butter pistol with a lighter trigger that can shoot a 40 despite all services sticking to 9mm(probably until phased plasma gets adopted).
but all of that is aside the point of the original topic: I don’t personally see the 19x as anything special, especially since they’re still being rolled off the assembly line vs limited run.
But I can’t see collector value in any Glock due to mass production and wider circulation. That’s jmo though, I also think it’s bonkers to fork out 45000$ on a Toyota Tacoma, so I know I’m the minority opinion.