Les Jones: New Slimline Glock 21

November 28, 2006

Guns > New Slimline Glock 21

Via Ninth Stage here comes the next-generation Glock 21. Some gun dealers on GlockTalk have confirmed it's for real. It uses new magazines, but its magazines are backwards-compatible with older Glock 21s. Someone on GlockTalk bought one of the new magazines the other week and posted a picture (but I couldn't find the thread again).

As the image above shows, it has an ambidextrous magazine release and a standard 1913 Picatinny accessory rail. It's also apparently thinner in the grip than the current 21, which is a good thing. The grips on Glocks with doublestack magazines are a bit thick in any caliber larger than 9 mm.

Scuttlebutt is that this is Glock's answer to the un-dead spec for the Joint Combat Pistol in.45 ACP for the U.S. government. That spec called for a 1913 rail and a grip size that "shall be operable for a range of operators from the 5th to 95th percentile per section 3.6.3."

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Comments

I like it. Put a very small, lightweight, LED flashlight on the rail and you'd have a pretty nice little pistol there, especially if you can make the light come on when the trigger bar is depressed...

Posted by: Mike at November 29, 2006

Dummy... the light 'comes on' after the trigger bar is depressed!

Posted by: Mark at January 23, 2007