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Well, they are and have been behind the power curve.
My comment was mostly in jest, but I never bought "placeholder" sight argument. No other major manufacturer does this and is lucky enough to have their customers defend it for them.
How many people do you see at the range that still have the factory sights on their glock? I would say most of them. While you, me and everyone else on this forum would replace them same day...we're also not "most" gun owners.
I wouldnt be surprised if they were to dabble in the smart gun pond......
What if I think 3 dot sights are f***ing stupid? (I don't, but a lot do) Then in 5 seconds, suddenly "every manufacturer sucks" because that's what most of them do. You can turn that
argument around with every manufacturer. Sights are a huge preference thing for anyone above "toddler" on a handgun skill ladder.
"Johnny shoots 1 box, then leaves, throws gun in safe to collect dust" is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. That effing guy doesn't even know the sights are made out of plastic. So where's his value add with metal sights? Think about it though... with that guy, does it matter? Nope.
Would I like metal sights stock on a Glock? Sure. But honestly I'd rather have an extra magazine or something I'm not going to (eventually) just throw away.
-Mike
MAKE FINGERGROOVES GREAT AGAIN!....FINGERGROOVES ARE BACK BABY!!!
Glock x Magpul PCC collab or gtfo
Don't @ me
"Johnny shoots 1 box, then leaves, throws gun in safe to collect dust" is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. That effing guy doesn't even know the sights are made out of plastic. So where's his value add with metal sights? Think about it though... with that guy, does it matter? Nope.
They are finally going to make firearms that work and also for men?
Of all the guesses above, I'd gladly take most (PCC, 1911/metal frame, Glock RMR). The one that I'm fearful of is a redefined G43 with 10/11/12+1 or some boring sh*t like that. I'm so tired of the subcompact wars that all polymer gun makes have been fighting. That segment alone is stagnating the rest of the industry because everyone is fighting over pressing that 1 extra round into a subcompact. It is double worse for MA where past 10, it doesn't even matter anymore.
Yes, I got into shooting with a subcompact, and I have a few now, but that segment has been beaten to death. Let's see some R&D money spent on compact and up now. Or universal things like triggers and action.
Where can I get the deed to my new farm?It's a PCC... (Pistol Caliber Carbine)
I would bet the farm that it is a PCC.
EDIT:
I just talked to my Glock guy. He says it's not a carbine.
A PCC that takes Kel Tec mags?
Stagnating what, exactly? Making even more redundant guns? Why so upset? As a handgun buyer this is a great time to be alive, there's literally 40% more product choice in
the market than anyone would ever practically need. This is a "good thing" (TM) and if the manufacturers have to go full marketing schloquge to sell a few more guns to newbs/dumbasses, then so be it... the rest of us can ignore it. (coincidentally its a good sign regardless, it means more people are carrying guns!)
Triggers and actions? There are seemingly a ton of companies that work on Glocks, Sigs, even the S&W Hygeineproduct... You're going to say "bweah well it should be that
way from the factory" but guess what.... Johnny 1 box, that I described above, ain't going to pay for it, because he's a f***ing skinflint. Throw in "liability" etc and then there
are more problems. Generally anything with a brutally good trigger was set up by hand by someone at some point... all this increases cost, if you want to do it safely. There's no
magic gnome that is going to give your plastic gun a 3.5 lb glass rod breaking 1911 trigger on a mass produced polymer framed handgun. It doesn't exist.
-Mike
"Legendary" sounds like a whole new product to me.
Not a new tweak on current guns.
Maybe they're going to start making their guns without that hole behind the magazine in the grip? Or maybe they'll start shipping guns with a Punisher slide cover plates as a standard feature?
Yes, stagnation in the industry because everyone is focusing on what is currently making the most money, subcompacts and microcompacts, leaving all other classes largely untouched.
it is all rather boring as each "new" model to the market is the exact same gun over again with maybe 1 more round that doesn't even matter to me in MA (Hellcat 11+1 is still a Hellcat 10+1).
I was actually initially impressed by the Hellcat, but the more and more I looked at it side by side with other subcompacts, the more I thought it wasn't anything new after all. Just marketing hype.
And everyone most likely has a subcompact by now, so why press so hard to trying to sell me another?
Meanwhile, G19 renovation is adding an annoying grip cut away and then removing it in a later revision. Seriously?
Why not put in a factory trigger that is as good, or better than the eventual aftermarket replacement? Hell, even a nicer trigger shoe and I'll do the springs myself.
Why not take a cue from any of the hundreds of aftermarket companies that stipple and cut the stock grip and make a factory grip that doesn't require it? This isn't exactly hard to reach fruit here. That's why I'm hoping for anything but another subcompact, as that segment has been beaten to death in 2019.