State Police Getting Rid of Glock 21s?

[rhino]

Are new 3rd generation Glock 17 pistols no longer available? Why didn't they just stick with those?

 

[sporter]

Should have just stuck with the G17...

Wait I am sure they'll find something wrong with it too.

 

[Disposable Heart]

Are new 3rd generation Glock 17 pistols no longer available? Why didn't they just stick with those?

That's my question too...

On a side note: Having seen several FNX and FNS guns go down at our lowly civvie range, I think they are an ergonomic, well made design, but not a well thought design. The FNS had more parts than a "combat" or defense gun should have. And yes, the guns were in the hands of competent individuals who regularly visited and I know their abilities.

Not a Glock fanboy (though I have a few), but I would trust a simple design like a Glock third gen over something complicated with extra parts that even seemed just thrown in like the FNS.

Yes, they have their followers (the FNs) but I am not a fan seeing their performance first hand. And yes, I understand that my sample size is only a few guns, rather than the sample size of 1 to a few of others.

 

[TheReaper]

Interesting! I didn't know that! There goes cocked and locked! ;-)

I know it!

 

[Spazzmodicus]

Hang on a sec... I thought Glocks were God's gift to the gun world and were incapable of fault. Oh, the humanity...

Hahahahah! I think problems are occurring with several Glock models but the news must only be getting out through the unenamoured and unbiased sources.

What can you expect from a plastic gun?

 

[Pinchaser]

I know a lieutenant at District 13 up North. I emailed him yesterday about the ISP going to the FNX. Just got his reply: "Vet your source and don't believe everything you read on the Internet."

Does anyone actually KNOW that the ISP is going to the FNX or are you just reading the gossip on the Internet and spreading it here?

 

[sharpetop]

I've read somewhere that the Columbia, S.C. PD switched to FN in I believe 9mm. [I guess they are trying to support a local company.] It would be interesting to see how they like them and how they have performed.

 

[TheReaper]

I know a lieutenant at District 13 up North. I emailed him yesterday about the ISP going to the FNX. Just got his reply: "Vet your source and don't believe everything you read on the Internet."

Does anyone actually KNOW that the ISP is going to the FNX or are you just reading the gossip on the Internet and spreading it here?

It's a fact.

 

[Spazzmodicus]

Amen Bro. Well said.

Interesting...and a slight derail here. I noticed a wall full of trade in FN 40 cals at Blythe's in Griffith the other day. Thought to myself, "Self, what dept. would issue FNX pistols in .40?"

Well, I hope the gun serves you guys and the rest of the ISP well! We can argue about makes and calibers all day long, and that makes for a fun banter on the forums, but in the end, we can all agree that the 2nd Amendment shall not be infringed and that we want those putting their asses on the line to get home to their families safely!

 

[Spazzmodicus]

Perhaps it's because Gaston has been busy with a divorce and the rigers of marrage to a hammer that is like 50 years younger than him and it has trickled down to and effected the buisness!

Wow! I was unaware that Glock aired it's own soap opera. You guys are are probably in much deeper than you realize. That's not a good thing btw.

 

[CQB]

Not sure about the mag release issue, but the ISP FNX 45's will be a decocker only, no manual


The FNX lever is both a safety and a decocker. I have no opinion as far as what's better or what ISP carries but I can see why they would consider the FNX 45. Can carry "cocked and locked" with an SA first shot -or- unlike a 1911, decock and its a DA first shot. Also carries 15+1 in .45 auto. Has a rail and changeable backstraps. It has a lot of favorable attributes as a service sidearm. Which is what it was designed to be. As for quality or reliability, I don't know. It is definitely a big gun.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYaP2QJFms

 

[TheReaper]

Not sure about the mag release issue, but the ISP FNX 45's will be a decocker only, no manual


The FNX lever is both a safety and a decocker. Functions like a HK USP 1.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYaP2QJFms

I know that, supposedly the ISP has had the FNX model converted to only a decocker, no safety like the Beretta 92 and 96G models they had.

 

[minuteman32]

Seems like a waste of money to change guns/calibers every few years.

 

[drillsgt]

Seems like a waste of money to change guns/calibers every few years.

It's just taxpayers money.

 

[rhino]

Seems like a waste of money to change guns/calibers every few years.

Don't get crazy! You and your logic and facts!

 

[scootn103]

Surprised glock would not remedy the situation at hand since the majority of there sales are to law enforcement and military , I have heard Hk is in the running but can not verify the validity of that statement . They need something reliable period as to who ever pays for it .

 

[in625shooter]

Are new 3rd generation Glock 17 pistols no longer available? Why didn't they just stick with those?

ISP had "Bore Envy" is all I can come up with!

 

[in625shooter]

Wow! I was unaware that Glock aired it's own soap opera. You guys are are probably in much deeper than you realize. That's not a good thing btw.

Between work drama/entertainment and internet (here) drama/intertainment I am cancelling my cable. These two are much better

 

[Spazzmodicus]

Between work drama/entertainment and internet (here) drama/intertainment I am cancelling my cable. These two are much better

I honestly did cancel my DSL service. Got tired of AT&T's price-raping schemes and such.

Watching "As The Glock Fails" on the INGO channel of the company iPad has definitely pulled in the slack.

 

[Smokepole]

Well, .45 acp ammo is far easier to find than 9mm or .40 cal. And everyone likes the bigger holes.

Except the recipients of those holes.