So, it’s the “Bill Ruger moment,” the “Smith & Wesson/Clinton “Justice” Department” moment for GLOCK, right? They “bent the knee” (or whatever trendy term is in current use), they submitted. 

Don’t they know that, as firearms manufacturers, they have a duty to spend whatever resources they have fighting phony-baloney lawsuits, litigated and funded by taxpayers? It’s our rights they should be defending and they should “go down with the ship.”

But that’s not always the case when a maker fights pressure like this. Why can’t they be like Barrett?

Tell me you don’t understand scale and proportion without telling me you don’t understand scale and proportion. 

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

When a company spends revenue fighting six-to-twelve government-sponsored lawsuits – governments, by the way, that many of you elected or stood aside to let someone else get elected – they can’t win, even if they win. The taxpayer money wasted is a sunken cost.

GLOCK “caved?”

What else is the company supposed to do? Try to overturn a law in a state that doesn’t look like America anymore? Defend against many government-sponsored BS lawsuits, plus that legislation?

It seems to me that the company had already been working on the designs that prevent installation of the currently available (and illegal) “switch.” In fact, I’d guess – and speculation is literally all I have – they were working on a redesign after earlier GLOCK patents expired and the plethora of “nearly-GLOCKs” arrived on scene. This was a likelihood without government intervention. 

And how did GLOCK get here to start with? This wasn’t a gun-friendly country back then -- I remember. The rather stupid Gun Control Act of 1968 (it controlled citizens, not guns – and not at all well) prevented importation of that particular sidearm. That’s how it was until a federal agency discovered it and found that the easy-to-shoot defense sidearm was a perfect fit for their agents. They persuaded brethren at another agency (the initials are “Against Total Freedom”) that the “Safe-Action” was indeed a double action design and it got around import restrictions. 

The US Government brought us GLOCK. 

Our state and local governments are currently going after a company that didn’t do anything wrong. It doesn’t matter that it’s GLOCK, they’d be happy going after any gun company – until there were no gun companies to provide arms for agents of government to use in oppressing their people.

Those government people and anti-gunners pursuing the ever-present GLOCK pistols – and those pistols really are pervasive – are marginal types, they don’t appreciate the gravity of the situation they’re in. Like spiteful children, they struggle against concepts like personal responsibility, individual rights, and the rule of law. 

The full-auto switches are illegal. Installing them, illegal. Possessing a gun so modified, ditto. All those laws, but, like little overstuffed children, they want “more candy” in the form of more gun laws. 

It’s an addiction. 

Then when they have their laws – like immigration, for example – they often try to find ways around them. 

Meanwhile, those on the 2A side of the aisle have to attack their own. “You need to do more to protect my rights.”

When was the last time you gave to a gun rights organization? When was the last time you actively participated in a gun rights activity – or even wrote a legislator, state or federal about pending legislation or regulations? 

Have you ever? 

Are you one of those bleating for your rights who never joined NRA, GOA, SAF, FPC? 

Have you run for office?

If you’ve not done any of those things, your concern over GLOCK’s product change is noted and appropriately disregarded. 

I don’t know why the company moved as it did. There are good apparent reasons -- I’d say that there are plenty of reasons, but I have no way of knowing which, if any, moved them to change. 

Will the “V” Series stand hard use like previous guns did? 

How do I know? I’ll watch with interest, but my money’s on the new gun. I just don’t see that company putting all that development into something that doesn’t work. 

— Rich Grassi