7 bills seems awfully damn pricey for a Glock. I can get a new gen 3 for $550 or so. Is it $150 better? Somehow I doubt it. Glock needs to be careful, because even for Kool aid drinkers like me, the mid range price point is part of the draw. (Note to Gaston: Its not a tricked 1911).
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If you look at all of the "Generation" changes that Glock has come up with, most all of them are cosmetic that were facilitated to compete with other Tupperware models that were more or less "Johnny Come Latelys" to challenge Glock's ever increasing sales success, like the Smith & Wesson M&P and the "new" Springfield XDM. Equipment rails, replaceable back straps, rougher frame finish, etc. All have little if anything to do with the pistols function. They did go to a 1 piece guide rod spring, but even that could be argued as having little to do with actual "improvement".
All of it falls into much the same category as "new & improved" laundry detergent, "New Coke", and the "new" Ruger Hawkeye. It is nothing more than an old Model 77 run through a sandblaster for a "new" matte finish that is in fact cheaper and easier to produce than the polished blue that was the standard. Gun sales have suffered like everything else do to a pi$$ poor economy. They can't offer leases or "zero % financing," so they come up with this kind of stuff. I agree Glock is far better off sticking to the basics that made them such a success in the first place. This happens a lot in the industry. They either stop producing really good models, (the Browning Auto 5 and the Colt Python come to mind), in favor of some gussied up, cheaper model, or else they start putting a bunch of crap on an older model that there was nothing wrong with in the first place. Much like Hussein, it's "change" we can easily do without. Bill T.
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