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Are new MOS models of Glock 9mms coming soon?

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It would appear that a few new offerings for Glock’s MOS (Modular Optics System) for mounting reflex and red dot sights are in the pipeline, namely for the G17 and G19 models.

The current line up

The current line up

The MOS system made its debut at SHOT Show 2015 exactly a year ago and provides factory-original optics ready handguns in a number of models.  The MOS feature is currently available on four 4th Gen Glock models including the “Practical/Tactical” G34, G35, G41 and the new for 2015 10mm G40 long slide.

The G40 10mm with MOS optics mount

The G40 10mm with MOS optics mount

The MOS allows a user to mount a red-dot or other optic switching from sight to sight by using a series of adapter plates that are accepted into the common mount on the slide. The four different plate options work with EoTech, Docter, Insight, Meopta, Trijicon (RMR), C-More, and Leupold (Delta) among others.

Now, as reported by The Firearms Blog, there are three new sku’s showing up for Glock distributors, 0252744 0252743, and 0252742, each denoting MOS variants of the Glock 17 and Glock 19. If you ask me, the two G17s are likely for the standard length model and a 17L, which would make sense.

Apparently these guns have been available in Europe for some time. TFB says since April of this year. This is verified by the Munich, Germany based Waffen-Centrale.de who is advertising MOS G17s (with the four-pack of plates) for 819 Euros.

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They are already starting to show up online with retailers here in the states ($598 on sale) for a Glock 19 Gen 4 MOS 9mm 15 RDS 4.02″ so you can expect this to get firmed up quick at the upcoming SHOT Show 2016 in just a couple weeks and I will be sure to lay my grubby mitts on them and report back.

Until then…

5 Fresh New Guns from SHOT 2015

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From new longslide Glocks to a Czech-made 1911, mash-up AR mutant rifles, and faux AK plinkers, the latest SHOT Show in Las Vegas this week did not come as a letdown with its 12.5-miles of new offerings.

The annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show-better known as the SHOT Show, put on by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is the showplace that gun makers from around the world come to every year to introduce new products. Typically, the global firearms industry keeps their latest and greatest under wraps until the show, and then announces them with a bang. Here are some of the neatest…

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Update on the new Glock Model 40: Looks like longslide 10mm

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Last weekend I brought news of the rumored new addition to the Glock line of safe action polymer framed handguns that included two possibilities: one, of a fabled single stack 9mm that had circulated among the online rumor mills, and a second of a long-slide 10mm hunter model. Well, it seems that the scales have tilted this week towards the latter being more correct.

On Christmas Eve, the fine folks over at Triangle Tactical posted rumint from Weddles Gun Shop in Campbellsville, Kentucky of a possible new optics ready long-slide Gen 4 pistol from Glock, chambered in 10mm. In other words, a beefier version of the G20 (which is puny already, right?) with a target-length barrel.

Well on Jan.2, just over a week after that leak, Kiesler Police Supply, Glock’s official LE distributor for agencies and officers in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota, let the cat out of the bag in a big way by announcing on their Facebook page that the new “Hunter” model 40 would soon be available.

No specs just yet, but it looks like a G35 on steroids–with a Trijicon RMR mounted.

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Rumbles of a mysterious Glock Model 40 in 2015?

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Once again, the drumbeat of a new offering from Glock that could turn the gun industry (or at least polymer fan boys) on its head is starting to be heard. This December, it seems that rumbles of a new model Glock, dubbed the 40, which by the way is not in .40S&W caliber, are the tune of the season.

Rumint #1

A number of the more popular firearms related Tumblr and reddit feeds have circulated an image that has stirred controversy without much of source as to where it came from. The image, which looks all the world like it was lifted from an actual Glock catalog or webpage, is of a new “Model 40” pistol that is (wait for it) a single-stack 9mm compact gun. In other words, what everyone wanted this year’s new Model 42 .380ACP carry gun to be.

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But, on further analysis, this rumor may be just that…but the other rumor looks more legit.

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