what went wrong

>>35049219
Nothing. They took the shitty parts of gen 3 and 4 and removed them.

>>35049219
People expecting a company to mess with perfection too much

File: IMG_1560.jpg (360KB, 1800x1200px) Image search: [Google]

360KB, 1800x1200px

> put 45 degree chamfer on slide
> don't not out it on the frame

>>35049219
>Dusting off your old polymer molds and marketing them as new to tactifags
Kek. Seriously though, I heard there's a bunch of internal changes to the gun. It won't get me to buy one over the M&P but, I'm looking forward to trying one out.

>>35049219
When Glock decided to put gen _ on the slide

>>35049219
Its not rtf2

>>35049219
They made a gun out of plastic and called it perfect

>>35049219
it's a Glock

>>35049219
I wish they did more, its just a rebranded gen 4 glock

>>35050220
Not all polymers are thermoplastic

>>35050248
no it's not.

>>35050258
clearly it is because nothing fucking changed

They failed to dramatically improve upon the pistol in ways that many people expected. For instance, didn't a lot of people want the ability to change out the front straps as well as the backstraps of the gun? Or raised sights for silencers and red dots? Or factory threaded barrels? Ambidextrous magazine release?

>>35049219
No RMR cut on the base version and no ambi mag release.

Come the fuck on Glock.

File: 1504112892255.png (200KB, 345x370px) Image search: [Google]

200KB, 345x370px

>>35049248
They couldn't do that without fucking with the rail though.

The problem is the internet is full of people that make a big deal out of things they will never use

>muh no RMR cut
no one cares
>muh no ambi release
you can flip it, and pretty much no one cares
>muh no suppressor sights or threaded barrel
the vast majority of people have no interest in dealing with NFA paperwork
>muh no front slide serrations
no one cares

If they released a tactical model with the rmr/supressor stuff then people wouldn't complain as much I imagine.

Glocks are bought by PD's and other agencys as duty weapons, or buy consumers looking for a plain, reliable weapon. If you want a race gun, then look somewhere else.

>>35050292
>For instance, didn't a lot of people want the ability to change out the front straps as well as the backstraps of the gun?

This is literally the first time I've ever heard someone ask for this.

>Or raised sights for silencers and red dots? Or factory threaded barrels?

Literally all done by aftermarket. There's no point. I don't even like that they put in a factory mag flare.

>Ambidextrous magazine release?
They already have these since gen 4

>>35050388
>RMR cut

red dots on pistols will absolutely be the way of the future, and many people are getting into that market. If Glock adapted their pistols to natively accept mounted sights, both Glock and the various sight manufacturers would benefit

>no ambi release
Yeah, you can flip it on a lot of guns, but while left handed shooters expect to be on the short end of the stick, having an ambi release is a feature that isn't that fucking hard to engineer after 5 generations

>no suppressor sights or threaded barrel
And what will you say when silencers are taken off of the NFA? It's going to happen, and if it happens soon, Ruger will sell out of all of their natively threaded .22 pistols just because they were prepared for it

>no front slide serrations
People care, a lot of people care, including the police officers that you mentioned

File: 1504310994288.jpg (40KB, 625x571px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 625x571px

Don't matter. It's a glock and flock fags will still spoo all over each other trying to get one just like apple fags clamouring for the latest ispinner.

>>35049248
Hey, Glock never cuts corners.

>>35049248
put your trip back on faggot

>>35050448
>red dots on pistols will absolutely be the way of the future, and many people are getting into that market. If Glock adapted their pistols to natively accept mounted sights, both Glock and the various sight manufacturers would benefit

pistol mounted reddots will be the way of the future but the rmr cut is the equivalent of the usp rail. something shitty that happened before everyone standardized.

>>35049219
I've dry fired the Gen 5 G19 and have to say that the trigger seems much better than that of the Gen 4 G19.

>>35049272
If you look at the pics of internals they are noticeably different

>>35050275
>changed magwell
>changed trigger
>changed barrel
>changed finish
>changed grip

>>35049219
they didn't fix the shitty ejection

>>35050448
>red dots on pistols will absolutely be the way of the future, and many people are getting into that market. If Glock adapted their pistols to natively accept mounted sights, both Glock and the various sight manufacturers would benefit

Find me some base models of other pistols that come with factor RMR cuts.

Glock has no benefit to do this, they have to change their tooling and add production steps so that maybe a handful of people out of 100 want to put a red dot on? Production costs will increase as well as cost to the consumer for something that will not be used by the vast majority. If entire police departments start issuing pistols with RMR's, than I'll go along with the way of the future shit.

>Yeah, you can flip it on a lot of guns, but while left handed shooters expect to be on the short end of the stick, having an ambi release is a feature that isn't that fucking hard to engineer after 5 generations

You can flip in on the gen 4 and 5, its a non issue, I'm left handed, you either flip it or just use your middle finger.

>And what will you say when silencers are taken off of the NFA? It's going to happen, and if it happens soon, Ruger will sell out of all of their natively threaded .22 pistols just because they were prepared for it

I applaud you for your optimism.

Threaded barrels and higher sights make it harder to conceal and carry which applies to more people than suppressor owners.

>People care, a lot of people care, including the police officers that you mentioned
If police officers don't know if their weapon is loaded or not, then they should go back to academy.

The aftermarket has solutions to these issues, Glock doesn't lose anything by not doing it. The whole still using plastic sights is fucking retarded though.

It would make more sense for glock to make a tactical model with stuff like rmr cuts, threaded barrels, raised sights and front slide serrations.

>>35050617
B-but that's nothing! Never mind that nobody else changes their guns much, that's nothing! Fucking Gleck!

>>35050624
source? My gen 4 from 2012 never had the issue.

>>35050632
>The whole still using plastic sights is fucking retarded though.
They're metal night sights now. I can't believe they're not advertising that.

>>35050639
youtube, watch a few reviews or search for glock btf

>>35050448
>no front slide serrations

Literally name ONE (1) use for front slide serrations. Keep in mind that glocks have a tactile loaded chamber indicator, making press checks pointless.

>>35050649
Link me. I've seen videos of people firing the gen 5 and it ejects normally.

>>35050647
There is an option for factory night sights, but the source I check says still polymer for the regular ones.

>>35049219
still those shit plastic sights.

>>35050659
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rrfSNOOp0Y

right around 2:45, then watch the dude in the red casings are flying right over his head

>>35050676
Better than shit metal sights with no tritium.

>>35050678
Literally one round out of all those magazines hit his earpro. It would have gone over his shoulder if that wasn't there. If that counts as shitty ejection, then every pistol on the planet suffers from brass to face.

File: blacked.jpg (119KB, 768x1024px) Image search: [Google]

119KB, 768x1024px

>>35050513

>>35050719
guy in the red had 5 or 6 go right over his head, multiple reports on a few forums of btf issues too sorry bro that glock shit is fucked up

>>35050653
Nobody cared about front serrations until a decade ago. No auto pistol had front serrations since the 1890s and you never heard anybody call for it.

Suddenly EVERY pistol needs front serrations or it's shit. It's just tacticool marketing gimmicks.

>5th generation
>still pig nose
Sad.

>>35050737
front serrations allow for more leverage, or more grip surface area, when racking the slide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3352fRrhSg

ejection is garbage, gun is garbage gen 3 still master race

>>35050777
Only if you grip the whole slide like a retard. If you rack your gun the way you're supposed to, it's a pointless ornament.

>>35050802
>>35050736
1000 rounds of low power target ammo and not 1 brass to face. Looks like glock fixed it to me,

>>35050846
Did you not watch the video? Towards the end he is cleaning catching brass near his ear pro. Glock fag please just go

>>35049248
I'm autistic enough that I'd pay for that frame mod.

File: actualperfection.jpg (164KB, 647x440px) Image search: [Google]

164KB, 647x440px

what the glock frame should have been

>>35050777
Nah. Everyone has been taught rear pinch or hand over rear slide. Nobody has been taught hand over whole slide or pinch front slide.

As all front serrationfags cry about, "press checks" are the only use and they are another piece of tacticool hogwash.

>>35049219

Just as boring and uninteresting as previous generations

Gen 4 truly was the top Glock.

File: DSC_1303.jpg (484KB, 1800x1200px) Image search: [Google]

484KB, 1800x1200px

>>35050540
i don't give a shit about the frame not matching

>>35050624
i've got about 600 rounds through it now and it hasn't had a single problem

PIG NOSE
>PIG
>NOSE
PIG NOSE

>>35050976
oh wow that sample of 1 is proofs yo

File: DSC_1300.jpg (1MB, 1800x1200px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1800x1200px

>>35051003
how hard did you search to find one single round that hit a guy's ear pro?

i guess that proves that you're right, but everyone that has one that works fine is just a sample size of one.

>>35051034
there are 2 YT videos above showing all kinds of awful and inconsistent ejection so the score in this thread is 2-1 BTF/faggot

>>35050939
That's what Glock is good at. Plain and reliable. Like a Corolla.

>>35050728
I don't think you got the joke.

>>35050979
Yankee Marshall pls go

>>35051053
uh no buddy
those videos don't show BTF at all

>>35051072
Why does the gen 5 still have a pig nose?

>>35049219
Still ugly as shit. How about changing the block design?.....

File: right.gif (2MB, 412x229px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 412x229px

>>35051075
>tripfag logic

File: DSC_1298.jpg (511KB, 1800x1200px) Image search: [Google]

511KB, 1800x1200px

>>35051086
probably because it's never been an issue and never will be an issue

my vp9s and m&p seem to warp the other way

there's ways to straighten it if you just have crippling autism and just can't handle it

that said, my 19 doesn't really even have it

>>35051086
People like you will always have an issue with Glock in the same way CNN will always have an issue with Trump. It's part of Glock's tradition to fuck with your autism over an irrelevant detail and for us to identify the insufferable faggots like you. Secondly, you could even say that it helps handgun lights "zero" to POI sightly better. Third, Boof reported that he heard it was an agency requirement to have the gun fit into eye sockets, though the truth to such a claim is pretty dubious.

>>35051114
Some of the pignose will develop over time, like a fine wine.

>>35051093
>how about changing why Glock is iconic

>>35050899
Eww

>>35051148
>defending pig nose
Other poly framed guns seem fine tho.....

>>35049272
What is this pignose thing? I really don't see it.

>people actually supporting front slide serrations
Snake Eater is not a fucking guide to what makes a good handgun. There's hardly anything that has as much "all flash, zero substance" factor as front slide serrations.

File: 1489325429544.jpg (58KB, 615x618px) Image search: [Google]

58KB, 615x618px

>>35050617
It's still just a glok.

>>35049219
>what went wrong
>adding ambi slide lock/release
>not adding a REAL ambi mag release
That's the biggest fail IMHO. I like to shoot ambi, and the mag release sucks for that. YEs you can reverse it, but not on the fly.

>>35050422
>They already have these since gen 4
Not true ambi, just reversable.

>>35050976
Thats a lot of wear on those slide stops already.

>>35052494
Reversible is ambi. If you mean a button on either side, that's shit. It just increases the odds of dropping a mag accidentally.

>>35050939
There's no such thing as an exciting or interesting non-custom production handgun.

I'm thinking about picking one up because I'm a filthy lefty and I'm digging the anni slide release. I have a VP9 and a 1911 so I figured a G19 would be nice for concealed carry. Anyone have a rough estimate how much the blue label price would be?

>>35050899
it's a step in the right direction. I'd like to see a version without an autistic trigger guard and less stippling.

>>35051406
>less capacity
>fire when dropped
>worse triggers
>can't function with tapwater
>DA/SA
>bore axis
>no aftermarket

Yeah, about those....

They hired some assfuck straight out of college to run their R&D and marketing. (Probably somebody's nephew.) Similar to how bushmaster and Remington committed suicide.

>>35049219
>no fucking finger grooves
I'm pretty happy with just that honestly.

>>35049219
Same shitty gun from the same shitty manufacturer..... What did you expect?

its a glock that's what went wrong

>>35049219
No enlarged trigger guard.

>>35050252
Pretty sure Glock frames are just glass reinforced thermoplastic, though.

>>35049248
Fucking this

>>35050473
t. Poorfag,on both accounts, who has no idea of either

Couldn't they beef up the slide rails? Not a Glock owner yet, but they seem a bit minimalist!

>>35049248
It's for gen 4 holster compatibility

>>35049219

Nothing? It seems to me like they made some changes some people wanted.
That's cool with me but I see no reason to switch from my G4 Glock which has worked fine for me sp far.
Honestly, who the fuck is even doing all this bitching?

>>35050275
>looks the same so it must be the same
I bet you think the stg-44 has a lot in common with the AK

File: IMG_0539.jpg (2MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x2448px

>>35049248
What could have been...