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About 10 years ago I bought a used (second generation?) G19. Since that time, I have used it very regularly as my primary carry weapon. It is old enough that it has seen some wear and tear, but never abused, so I was surprised when I saw the "chip" out of the mag well. It was made in 1989 and I was the second owner.
After an afternoon of training (about 400 rounds), I noticed it had lost a good sized chunk out of the mag well. Notice that the break is in the thinned portion of the frame wall where it "flares" out.
BEFORE:
I called glock and ended up shipping it to them. They had it for about a month (things are backed up) and they ended up replacing the frame. The packing list indicated that they "replaced frame, trigger bar, spring, firing pin, spring, locking block, slid stop lever, edp, assembly, magazine catch, spring, slide cover plate, spring, cups, recoil spring, follower, magazine springs."
That is a huge amount of work considering that they charged me $0.00 on a gun that was built in 1989.
Glock stands behind their stuff. Nice!
AFTER:
So this story has a happy ending for everyone. Those who love glocks will say that here is more proof that glock is a great company that stands by their product and the haters will point out that the plastic gun broke like they said it would.
Oh and its happy for me because I now have a gen 3 glock frame...
After an afternoon of training (about 400 rounds), I noticed it had lost a good sized chunk out of the mag well. Notice that the break is in the thinned portion of the frame wall where it "flares" out.
BEFORE:
I called glock and ended up shipping it to them. They had it for about a month (things are backed up) and they ended up replacing the frame. The packing list indicated that they "replaced frame, trigger bar, spring, firing pin, spring, locking block, slid stop lever, edp, assembly, magazine catch, spring, slide cover plate, spring, cups, recoil spring, follower, magazine springs."
That is a huge amount of work considering that they charged me $0.00 on a gun that was built in 1989.
Glock stands behind their stuff. Nice!
AFTER:
So this story has a happy ending for everyone. Those who love glocks will say that here is more proof that glock is a great company that stands by their product and the haters will point out that the plastic gun broke like they said it would.
Oh and its happy for me because I now have a gen 3 glock frame...