Set the controls on the Wayback Machine to Y2K, Sherman. We’re going to the old GlockTalk.com forum to see what the most hoped-for new pistol from Glock was among its most rabid fans back there in the day.
While either bitrot or a blown software upgrade erased the forum’s actual archives that far back, some of us were there, Gandalf. We can tell you that two decades ago the most anticipated pistol from Glock was a single-stack variant of the Glock 19. After all, the newest hotness from Smyrna in those days was the Model 36, which took the basic architecture of the 10-shot double-stack Glock 30 .45 ACP compact and slimmed it down by two-tenths of an inch, by using a six-round staggered magazine.
This was the middle of the Assault Weapon Ban years, and so, reasoning went, slimming down the 19 would make it easier to carry, slimmer in the hand, and would make 10-round staggered magazines native to the gun, rather than the neutered 10-rounders used in the G19 at the time.
Over a decade
