My recommendations:
- Modular, customizable Grip (think HK VP9)
- Undercut trigger guard
- Decent sights not made of plastic, hey Gaston…go look at these: Vickers Battlesights
- Front slide serrations
- Trigger more like a SIG 320
I thought glocks were perfect? :suicide:
Sorry Flyinghunter, I couldn’t resist.
Anyway, I would like to see grip options. Like ones with no finger grooves and loosing the plastic POS sites.
- Incorporate M&P style rear grip insert that allows for CT laser grip integration.
- Abandon superfluous trigger within a trigger “safety.” It serves practically no purpose other than tricking police administrators into thinking it is a safety.
- Abandon screw-on front sights. I know Glock likes saving money, but this is subpar. Needs dovetail or CZ style cross-wise roll pin.
- Put thicker shelf around the slide-release lever to reduce accidental slide lock-back and/or failure to lock back.
- Return to G3 specs for recoil system, etc for 9mm models.
Go back to the Gen 3 specs and leave it alone. I can modify the grip to my likings.
I’ve seen a lot of people gripe about the screw on sights. What’s the big deal? Little bit of thread locker and I’ve never had one come loose before.
Good topic. I’ve been Glock monogamous for almost 12 years now.
Here’s what I want:
Every Gen 5 should come with the factory extended slide stop lever (or slide release as they say back on the block)
Slightly revised takedown. My fingernails hurt when stripping the pistol. A little longer and a little fatter, please
Don’t care about interchangeable grips.
Slanted front and rear serrations
MIAD style front grip, giving the option to NOT have finger grooves.
I agree…while I don’t mind the trigger safety; I don’t like it either. At least an option to change it. Wide and fat. Possibly flat bow.
Yeah I’d buy that
Change angle of extractor from (15 degrees?) back to 90…also redesign the slide, extractor entirely. Shitcan the spring, depressor rod, bearing, etc, and change to a simple lever&spring set up like found in HK’s M&P’s etc, You know, something that works… Lower the ejection port, and bevel the inside bottom of the port. Make the extractor wider to get a better grip on the case. And while we’re at it, on the sides of the breech face where the case slides up, cut a small notch to catch the rim of the case, and stop it from sliding off the breach face in case of poor extractor tension…
Get rid of the finger grooves. and the “safety” lever on the trigger, as was mentioned above it doesn’t do anything meaningful.
Possibly offer a model with a Gadget installed…
What Ralph said.
and also…whatever unobtanium unicorn parts needed to prevent the almighty BTF. The BTF is getting old!
Most already covered. Only two things I’d add are:
Drop MIM and go back to previous materials.
Make metal slide inserts so that if one breaks you can replace without needing a new frame.
Doing what I suggested would make BTF a thing of the past…
Well that’s great news! Now to implement your plan…I went to Glocks website, jobs, and found this position: CNC - FERTIGUNGSTECHNIKER/IN ZERSPANUNG.
Please apply for whatever this CNC job is and solve the eternal/infernal BTF problem. I’ll pitch in for the airfare to Austria.
Too many sight options to do that. I’d only want Trijicon HD orange. So any other crap just wastes my money. I consider the plastic sights place holders or dovetail protectors.
I used to think front slide serrations were necessary for press checks. Then I was issued a Glock and I quickly learned they aren’t. They serve no functional purpose in my mind and are purely cosmetic. And I wouldn’t want them on a Gen 5.
I’d like to see interchangeable front and side straps (finger grooves and no finger grooves). I’d like grey as a frame color and that’s about it.
A lot of things previously mentioned Id like to see but my only real complaints are the undercut and the shape of the trigger. I don’t like how round it is from side to side. Id like a flater trigger.
Doing what I suggested is well known, Glock went to the 15 degree extractor in a effort to get the case to clear the ejection port, when all that was needed was to lower the port. If you ever read the BTF thread that was over 200pgs long, (I think)at least one of these ideas have already been tried. for example, Randy Lee of Apex tactical has been lowering ejection ports on Glocks for years, it’s nothing new, and it works. Glock knows full well what they could do if they wanted,But apparently they don’t want to bad enough. People buy everything they make as it is so, why should they change?? Glock will do nothing to address any known problems until somebody comes along and gives them some serious competition for LE contracts/civilian sales, and starts making inroads into their bread and butter…
Besides, I don’t speak German, and I’m not inclined to learn.
Lipsey’s has your factory Grey frame:
Glock Gen 5.
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Serialized removable frame rails to which the frame, trigger, sear, ejector etc. Attach.
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Removable duty, compact, and sub compact grips. (Non serialized) buy the compact, then you can buy a second frame in whatever size you want. To go from a 19 sized, to a 17 or a 26 sized gun.
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From the factory steel Glock sights with the front sight being mounted on a dovetail as has been previously mentioned.
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Revised takedown similar to the captured takedown pin of the Arsenal Strike One.
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Ideally be able to take Gen 4 slides as well as Gen 5 slides. That way aethstetic or functional changes on Gen 5 guns can be swapped to a more traditional Glock look/feel. As well as affording those with extensive updates to Gen 4 slides such as RMR cuts, serrations jobs etc. can utilize their personal improvements.
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A closed top glock 34 and go back to the gen 3 9mm recoil spring assembly. My list of changes wouldn’t be realistic. I’m better off just sending my gun to have the frame worked over and the slide worked over. I’ll have my RMR’s one day lol
I want a Glock 34 MOS with tall sights and a threaded barrel. Nothing follows.
Holy sweetness! You just cost me more money! Lol! Truth be told it isn’t your fault. I’d have seen them eventually. But thanks! 
There is quite a bit of flack here on the Gen 4 springs, what exactly did I miss regarding those? My Gen 4 19 I have not had a spring issue. Simply asking, not trying to start an argument or call anyone out.
what I would want on a Gen 5;
Remove the finger grooves. I was amazed how much I liked them not being there on a Gen 3 that my friend removed them from. I felt like I had better control.
Good factory sights on all guns. Add a little bit of cost and ship with usable 3-dot steel sights. The dot notch is a joke, and being plastic makes it worse.
Friendlier controls. Extend the mag release similar to the tango down add ons, extended slide release like TD, and easier take down levers. I have dealt with some very, very stiff take down levers.
Stock RDS options and packages. The MOS was the correct direction, but make a factory model with suppressor height night sights, with maybe an RMR shipped from factory. This could also translate to more tactical packages from the factory (I am looking at the FN45 tactical)
More factory customization options. Allow me to order a G21 with RMR setup, suppressor height sights, threaded barrels directly from Glock or Lipsey’s or whomever. Give us more factory options.
Interchangeable grip panels. The P30 and the VP9 are great examples of how to make a gun feel in your hand just right.
Fix the extractor issue the first time. No excuses that guys are still getting BTF.
Just my humble additions and subtractions on what I would personally want. I shoot Glocks more than any of my other guns.