Well, the Glock 19 is essentially a compact version of the original Glock 17. This pistol did make a statement in the world by growing into the sidearm of choice for most of the finest military and law enforcement units around the world since it was created in Austria. Indeed, it is Gaston Glock who designed this firearm. The Glock 19 has found adoption among such forces as the U.S. The Army Special Forces, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, and British Special Forces, not to mention even agencies like the CIA and FBI, testament to their unequaled reliability and versatility.
One of the more well-known traits of the Glock 19 is its simplicity and reliability. “Glock pistols are absurdly simple for a modern firearm,” making them easy to maintain and repair. It makes it possible to field-strip a pistol with nothing more than a punch and gives a person an eight-hour class to become a certified Glock armorer. It is also the simplicity that gives the pistols a high degree of reliability: they go on functioning despite extreme abuse.
The popularity of Glock pistols has also spawned a huge industry in accessory manufacturing, everything from simple and mundane, such as holsters and magazines, to high-tech products like lights, improved sights, and even barrels. There are optics-ready models made, and the surface of a Glock pre-drills for mounting a red dot sight. SOCOM has standardized the Trijicon RMR as an optic for these guns. The modularity of the Glock 19 enables the operator to configure his pistol with optics, threaded barrels, suppressors, and extended magazines to conduct a specific mission.
There are minimal external Glock pistol controls. The controls exist in only a trigger, magazine release, and slide lock. This minimalism ensures that the weapon can be brought into instant action. Although there is no manual safety, there exist three internal safeties in a Glock 19: trigger safety, firing-pin safety, and drop safety. Such a combination makes it impossible to have the pistol fire by accident in the most difficult conditions of usage.
The compact Glock 19 is optimal for mission versatility. With a 4.02-inch barrel length and an overall 7.28-inch length, weighing a little over 30 ounces fully loaded, the Glock 19 is smaller than most duty-sized handguns, yet still large enough to be easily controllable. This mix of attributes makes it appropriate for both duty use and concealed carry, thus meeting special operations forces and agencies, like the CIA and Marines, with their diverse needs in one versatile sidearm.
The Glock 19 excels at those very fundamentals any pistol must have: accuracy, control over the pistol, and compatibility with a wide range of ammunition. This gun is accurate due to its striker-fired trigger design. In addition, it has an extremely light trigger pull with an equally ultra-short reset. The recoil of the 9mm Glock 19 is pretty manageable; with standard ball ammunition, it goes without a hitch, just like with the most advanced hollow-point rounds. In addition, Glock magazines are very robust and hence can assure long service life.
The Glock 19 is nothing fancy or high-tech in firepower, but its reliability, simplicity, and versatility make it the standard sidearm of many of today’s finest fighting units. That it will perform under the most difficult conditions, operating at the highest level possible and tailoring itself toward whatever mission requirements may be at hand, has cemented this weapon into the arsenal of the armed professional. Continuing interest in the Glock 19 speaks volumes about its efficiency and reliability when needed.