Glock Gen 5 to be available soon

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Originally Posted by Ultimate94ninja

Kinda surprising, but the Glock 17L Gen 5 MOS has been announced.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...-17l-gen5-mos/

Originally Posted by Jcordell

Wow that is a surprise. I thought that Glock had essentially stopped making the 17L.

They still make the Gen 3 G17Ls in limited quantities (something like a few dozen per year), but no, they've never left production. They still have a following amongst Glock fans (especially in countries where competition shooting is considered the only legitimate reason to own a handgun), and I believe that Glock also has a few military and/or LE contracts to build them, too.

I definitely don't understand the point of offering the G17L in a Gen5 MOS configuration, though. If you're buying a pistol to put an optic on it - which is the main reason anyone would buy the MOS version - then why bother purchasing a gun with such a long iron sight radius? (Side note: I've always thought that the G17L from the movie "Ronin" was an impractical setup in reality for this exact reason.)