Why is GLOCK Being Forced to Change Its Handguns Because Politicians Refuse to Enforce the Law?

GLOCK 19 fiber optic sights
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It really is incredible that GLOCK is going to redesign most of their 40-plus-year-old proven, popular, and reliable handguns because the Democrats who are suing them and/or banning them won’t crack down on crime in their benighted cities.

California’s GLOCK ban literally originated from a mass shooting carried out by a deranged violent criminal who was let out of prison six years early thanks to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies. The killer was prohibited from possessing any gun, let alone an illegal altered, fully automatic one. And yet here we are, with one of the world’s biggest gun makers forced to change its design as a result.

There are tons of videos online of teens showing off their illegal GLOCK switch modified guns. They don’t even bother to hide their faces.

Why aren’t police finding and arresting them? Such a course-correction could literally save their life if they did. Every time I see one of those videos I can’t help but wonder how many of those dumb kids will end up in prison or dead within five years. It’s almost as if they know they have nothing to worry about from local law enforcement.

Or hell…forget the police. Where are their parents? But instead, let’s blame GLOCK for criminals illegally altering their safe, legal products. It’s so incredibly infuriating.

I also worry that, when a company changes its long-proven design, especially when the founder and inventor has since passed away, the new design is now a blank slate. All of GLOCK’s hard-earned reputation for reliability now has to be proven all over again. And who knows what newly-introduced issues the updated design will have?
Maybe I’m wrong. I hope so. We’ll see.

Kostas Moros is Director of Legal Research and Eduction for the Second Amendment Foundation. This post was adapted by SNW from a tweet he posted at X.

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6 thoughts on “Why is GLOCK Being Forced to Change Its Handguns Because Politicians Refuse to Enforce the Law?”

  1. Allow me to add a question mark to the title of this article and everything will make perfect sense:

    Why is GLOCK Being Forced to Change Its Handguns? Because Politicians.

  2. Why? Because nobody wants to arrest criminals. Because they complain there are too many people being locked up in the USA.

    Compared to other countries.

    1. They always ignore the fact that those other countries major cities have way more cops than many of our cities do.
      Either locking away criminals for long periods of time or flooding the problem streets with tons of on-foot cops will yield positive results.
      They would we rather do neither and just live with crime like we live with squirrels running around.

      1. Shire-man,

        I visited Athens, Greece in June of this year. I saw a LOT of police officers all over the place. It was fairly common to see anywhere from 4 to 12 officers standing around and socializing near their cars and/or motorcycles at a street corner. Note that they were able to socialize because there was no serious/violent crime occurring anywhere.

        1. In Europe and the UK soldiers patrol with military rifles. That was done all throughout the 1970s and 1980s. On the streets and at large public gatherings. And airports.

          They had bombings, assassinations, riots, and all others of public protests disruptions.

          And sadly we are moving in that direction.

          Most major American cities are down several hundred police officers. And the numbers are continuing to go down.

          Making crime legal or not enforcing laws, has not reduced the number of crime victims.

          The utopians will cause everyone to lose their civil rights. In order to confiscate guns and also empty the jails.

          Because there are far too many self-hating white people making laws.

        2. Historically the American military has never been used as a backup, for civilian law enforcement. Until the Brown vs Board of Education case.

          And, just as Alabama refused to follow federal law back in the 1950s. Now you have the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago refused to follow federal law.

          People forget that President Trump majored in American history.

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