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Glock 34 Gen4 being discontinued in favor of Gen5 so they say

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#1 ·
Gunshop operators say the Gen4 Glock 34 will be discontinued in favor of the Gen5. Gen3 will stay in production. Anybody care?
Sorry for typo in heading of thread.
 
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The first 3 words of your post kill the entire credibility of the rest of the sentence. I've found gun shop employees typically spread more misinformation than some members on gun forums.

If you think back to the release of the Gen 4, there were dozens of posts talking about how the Gen 3's were on their way out. More than 7 years later you can still buy the entire Gen 3 line with the exception of the compensated models and the non SF .45/10mm and that happened 3 years after the introduction of the Gen 4.

I wouldn't count on any of the Gen 4 line going away anytime soon, however it isn't hard to see a commissioned gun shop employees motive in spreading rumors that pistols will be discontinued. Sometimes all it takes to teeter someone on the fence into a purchase is to make them believe the product they have in their hand won't be available to purchase the next time they come in.
 
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Gunshop operators say the Gen4 Glock 34 will be discontinued in favor of the Gen5.
I love the confidence and authority. It's not "A gunshop operator I shot the $hit with says...". Instead, it's a definite unambiguous "Gunshop operators say...". The unqualified declaration is invested with the ultimate unquestionable authority of MULTIPLE gunshop operators...perhaps many...perhaps even ALL of them, everywhere! The world now knows with certainty that "the Gen4 Glock 34 will be discontinued in favor of the Gen5."

OP, I appreciate the extensive research and the speed at which it was completed and reported. Thanks! :)

A Gen5 G34 could use no earlier generation's barrel or RSA, but I'm sure that will not dampen enthusiasm.
 
#18 ·
Although I tend to ignore what is told to me by gunshop employees, it makes sense. CA users still get the Gen 3 (no new Glock's will make it on the safe handgun roster) and the rest of the world gets the Marksmen barrel... ;)

Of course, I am not sure how this squares with the other rumors that have the G17 and G19 as the only Gen 5's. :)
 
#20 ·
CA users still get the Gen 3 (no new Glock's will make it on the safe handgun roster)...
CA government agencies will get anything they want...and have chosen the Gen4 to date.
... and the rest of the world gets the Marksmen barrel...
If there are any practical advantages to the GMB, there's no reason they could not be incorporated into a pre-Gen5 barrel. Right now, all such alleged advantages remain 100-percent mythological. No one, not even Glock, has published ANY results of rigorous Gen4 vs. Gen5 comparison tests that would substantiate their GMB claims. All we have are the claims of Glock's marketing department, and some off-hand reports from a few new users in a casual setting. Until good data are available to support it, GMB stands most accurately for "Glock Marketing Barrel".
I am not sure how this squares with the other rumors that have the G17 and G19 as the only Gen 5's. :)
The so-called Gen5 seems to be simply an easy brainless effortless way to capitalize on the two M models that had been developed and fielded the year before. Glock had to do NO additional research and development to burp out for commercial sale identical devices, save for changing M to Gen5 on the left side of the slide.

But a G34M or G26M is not a product that Glock currently makes. If the FBI had purchased a G34M or G26M, we'd have had the Gen5 G34 and G26 out last month. There will need to be development and significant alteration to the barrel and slide (G34) and frame (G26) of current designs which was not required to market the Gen5 G17 and G19.

Complicating the marketability of a Gen5 G34 would be its incompatibility with ALL pre-Gen5 G34 barrels, just like its parent Gen5 G17. It's insane...all that G17M redesign and loss of pre-Gen5 major parts interchange just so the FBI could use the same locking block for both the G17M and G19M. Anyone buying a Gen5 G17 buys all the unnecessary change and incompatibility caused by FBI spare parts logistics issues. A Gen5 G34 would have these same distressing disadvantages.
 
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VERY few gun shop operators know good s h I t from bad lumps. In fact, I know of only one in the whole upper half of the state I live in, and they are armorers and everything. Glock treated them like royalty. They were told of the Gen5 long ago. And even the summer run of guns they had come out. They tell them what's going to happen and when. There are no Gen4's being discontinued. The G34 is a seller. You don't get rid of a product that makes money.

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#22 ·
I cannot imagine this happening. Until MOS shows up on the Gen 5 (5.5, 6, 6.01v011, etc.), Glock would be killing the MOS optics for the G34 if they only had a Gen5 and a Gen3 version. Why would they do that?

I just don't think that is a path they would take.
 
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CA government agencies will get anything they want...and have chosen the Gen4 to date.

If there are any practical advantages to the GMB, there's no reason they could not be incorporated into a pre-Gen5 barrel. Right now, all such alleged advantages remain 100-percent mythological. No one, not even Glock, has published ANY results of rigorous Gen4 vs. Gen5 comparison tests that would substantiate their GMB claims. All we have are the claims of Glock's marketing department, and some off-hand reports from a few new users in a casual setting. Until good data are available to support it, GMB stands most accurately for "Glock Marketing Barrel".

The so-called Gen5 seems to be simply an easy brainless effortless way to capitalize on the two M models that had been developed and fielded the year before. Glock had to do NO additional research and development to burp out for commercial sale identical devices, save for changing M to Gen5 on the left side of the slide.

But a G34M or G26M is not a product that Glock currently makes. If the FBI had purchased a G34M or G26M, we'd have had the Gen5 G34 and G26 out last month. There will need to be development and significant alteration to the barrel and slide (G34) and frame (G26) of current designs which was not required to market the Gen5 G17 and G19.

Complicating the marketability of a Gen5 G34 would be its incompatibility with ALL pre-Gen5 G34 barrels, just like its parent Gen5 G17. It's insane...all that G17M redesign and loss of pre-Gen5 major parts interchange just so the FBI could use the same locking block for both the G17M and G19M. Anyone buying a Gen5 G17 buys all the unnecessary change and incompatibility caused by FBI spare parts logistics issues. A Gen5 G34 would have these same distressing disadvantages.
Who cares whether this pistol is the same as what they are making on a special contract, the only difference being the model designation?

The Gen 5 is absolutely a new design. The 19M was not made for civilian use and for whatever reason Glock decided to rebadge it for civilian release. It has quite a few features that have come back from previous generations, the subcompact slide bevel, and the new locking block/trigger design until now only found on the pocket guns. Glock has always made incremental updates and this pistol has a bunch of new to the 19 features.

I also actually like the fact that the new pistol I bought was field tested for a year to iron out the issues and pass the growing pains before civilian release. For me it was a win win.....then again I’m a lefty and I’ve always hoped for a Glock I could operate the way the controls were intended so my opinion is likely a bit biased.


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#34 ·
Glock has accountants and Gaston. Both would like to recover the developments costs of the M models.

Since the government didn't bite on the M's, Glock will unload them as Gen 5's to the loyal base. IMHO, it would have been smarter to just put them out a M models (look, I got a gen-you-wine FBI gun!). Would have avoided all the kerfuffle over only two models of gen5.
 
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Glock has accountants and Gaston. Both would like to recover the developments costs of the M models.

Since the government didn't bite on the M's, Glock will unload them as Gen 5's to the loyal base. IMHO, it would have been smarter to just put them out a M models (look, I got a gen-you-wine FBI gun!). Would have avoided all the kerfuffle over only two models of gen5.
Agreed. The 5 is merely a test model in my opinion, and pushed out to the loyal Glock fanboys to recover some r&d since it largely failed for it's intended purpose.

I'm a Glock fan, have only 6, but some folks will buy a Glock and defend it to the end if it didn't come with a barrel, because Glock told them that metal and polymer don't work well together and just throw the gun like a boomerang.
 
#35 ·
I heard the iPhone X.2 will have a fingerprint scanner built into the front-facing camera
 
#37 ·
Forum poster says the Gen4 Glock 34 will not be discontinued in favor of the Gen5. Gen3 will stay in production. Anybody care?
 
#40 ·
I don't think Glock will do anything that would hurt sales , was at lgs this morning ,picked up another Gen 4 ,19FS as a spare ,bought 2 more used 19s that had been traded in this week .They have 20 Gen 5 ,17s coming in by end of next week .All but 2are pre sold , was offered 1 but I will wait a while ,too many really nice Glocks are being traded in for Gen 5 s. .In this area Glock is selling all they can make .
 
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