Well… that didn’t take long. Glock rolled out its brand-new V-series, the big, bold answer to lawsuits claiming their pistols were “too easy” to convert, and the gun world took about five minutes to prove the point Glock desperately hoped no one would test.
The entire pitch behind the V models was simple: make the pistol unable to accept a switch, slam the door on conversion, and get California and a handful of other states off Glock’s back. In theory? PR win. In reality? The internet took one look at Glock’s redesigned backplate geometry and said, “Write that down. Write that down.”
Before most stores even have these things in stock, someone has already managed to fit a switch into a Model V. Not hypothetically. Not “maybe with the right gear.” No, confirmed. The gun community essentially speedran Glock’s entire engineering department while holding a Dremel and a Red Bull.
And of course, the reactions were priceless from the AK Guy. “You can’t stop the signal.” “Life finds a way.” “At max two weeks” became “not even a month after the announcement.” Glock thought they were building Jurassic Park electric fences. The internet delivered the T-Rex anyway.
SEE ALSO: Glock Confirms V Series!
Glock, understandably, now looks like that meme of the guy pointing at a whiteboard while the room burns around him. They tried to appease anti-gun politicians by “proofing” the gun against a device that (newsflash!) is already federally regulated as a machine gun.
Instead of challenging the misunderstanding behind the lawsuits, they redesigned half their pistol and still ended up with the same result: a semi-auto gun that a determined tinkerer can force into doing things it absolutely shouldn’t.
That’s the part the video hammers home: the whole premise was flawed from the start. You can regulate the part. You can outlaw the part. But you can’t legislate away human ingenuity or a nation full of guys with 3D printers and questionable weekend hobbies.
SEE ALSO: Seattle Sues Glock Over Illegal ‘Switch’ Mods
And of course, anti-gunners immediately moved the goalposts. No sooner had Glock tried to “fix” the problem than activists turned around and targeted Ruger’s RXM for the same thing. Proving, once again, the political version of give a mouse a cookie: give an inch, lose a mile.
The bigger takeaway is simple: technology evolves, tinkerers exist, and gun laws written by people who don’t understand how firearms work always end up looking ridiculous. The V-series was supposed to be Glock’s peace offering. Instead, it turned into the fastest meme cycle of 2025.
What happens next? Glock has decisions to make, California will inevitably demand more, and the internet will continue being the internet. One thing is certain: the V-series was supposed to be the “future” of compliance engineering, and the future just got absolutely speed-run.
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It’s difficult to leave a comment on such things without ruffling at least some feathers for obvious reasons. First off I’d like to commend you for being able to write articles which seem pretty “low impact”. I’m actually quite surprised that this one doesn’t have any comments yet, from any perspective. I suppose most gun grabbers don’t bother either reading or commenting on such articles unless and until it has generated enough attention for them to both find it and deem it a danger to public safety. I can’t even say much at all in pro gun forums that’s brutally honest without getting virtually tackled by security so in a way I guess even most pro gun communities are a little soft where it counts. I totally understand that so I do my best to not be “brutally” honest. In fact I can’t really be that way anywhere on the internet with any subject besides on any social media pages that I maintain myself and it’s become a problem in real life as well. I have my thoughts on this but those are not for here or now. Not certain if there will be a time and place for it other than in my place, vehicle, or on my property. I just want to let you know that we need more writers like you. I wish I could do it but I’m far too opinionated, honest, blatant, and I miss the days when most people I knew were similar. We didn’t have these weirdo issues that have rendered it overwhelmingly improper to be honest and work out issues in an effective way! Keep up the good work…
Several things—
An old school man’s man guy like Gaston Glock who supposedly slept in his bunker basement with a M2 Browning 50 bmg belt fed would probably be like Ronnie Barrett and tell any State or other entity to, ‘Kiss my @ss!’ and not sell any of their products to them if they choose to politically persecute them for the behavior of their local jurisdictions criminal street thugs population’s behavior which is retarded and I know politics pisses off a lot of gun owners (and rightfully so) but to be fair macroeconomic and tourism wise California is awesome but how they try to make firearms political because they can’t control all their gangsta drug dealer street goons is stupid of them when a big wealthy State like that’s political influence affects law abiding citizens in other State’s by legal bullying innocent firearms manufacturers and making it harder on firearms enthusiasts everywhere who just want to purchase and enjoy nice, reliable quality firearms in peace like they always have from a company they love (And that love is fading fast these days with the recent jam-o-matic’s and political bs we are seeing from Glock although they were absolutely awesome in the 90’s and 00’s).
-Gaston’s mistress didn’t build the company from the ground up like it has been reported that him and his original wife and kids did so there’s no way a gold digger mistress type like that can ever appreciate all the sacrifice and toil from the family and Gaston that went into building that iconic brand and whether it had been a gold digger or a trust fund brat (and I don’t think Gaston’s kids are that way at all from what I’ve read, they actually are sane and productive people) who wrecks more Ferraris and does more coke than Vince Neil and Tommy Lee in the 1980’s they would never run a company the same as someone who built something from the ground up. The only way to keep an organization steady after a brilliant founder (and he had help
designing the marvel that is the G17 from plenty of European military and competitive shooter input) passes on is to have a great legal team make arrangements to keep the organization running steady via proper pre-arranged contracts that keep gold diggers and frat boy cokehead trust fund brats from running a perfectly good organization into the ground and putting consistency of a quality product and customer service first otherwise; odds are high looking at history that a dumpster fire will be the result when proper contracts aren’t designed to establish and continue an inventor and founder’s vision reliably post-humously.
-If Glock can’t get their act together and give us Gen3 2000’s level of quality, reliable, consistent products and great customer service then CZ USA or H&K will be getting all my business in the future. It depresses me but I’m tired of all the drama and political bs and disregard for customer service from them. They should follow CZ’s methods and use customer input to design and improve future better products but since it’s a gold digger she won’t she will probably run it into the ground is my guess. That sucks but CZ USA doesn’t!
It’s always the law abiding citizens that suffer. They never hold the criminals accountable.
Make Leggos illegal. They hurt to step on them, damn.
“a semi-auto gun that a determined tinkerer can force into doing things it absolutely shouldn’t.”
Let’s take that further and say full-auto shouldn’t be illegal either. As in, Shall NOT be infringed.”
i agree, level the playing field, select fire should be legal, the bad guys have no problems getting and using them.
I also agree and would like to further say that it’s not a good feeling to feel at a disadvantage to a wiener with a “Glock switch”, which are quite easy to make or even buy here still, with my “legally” compliant firearm that I worked to get, paid for with hard earned and TAXED money, and have no interest in modifying beyond cosmetically or accessory wise. I go to a few outdoor ranges up in the mountains here in CO., an already heavily over regulated state and every time, no matter which one I go to, there are always a group of clowns there with firearms, accessories, and modifications that are illegal here including full auto AK-47s with 50 round drums and all other means of destructive firepower. They’re always hooting and hollering and making a scene and giving off the general vibe that they just don’t care and that nobody better try to give them any crap about it. It really grinds my gears because if I were ever in a situation where I had to defend myself and others against a group like this, I wouldn’t be able to because I choose to exist in the “safe zone” where none of my equipment will be confiscated nor will I face charges for having it. I kind of like to keep my nose clean with such things so that I at least have the ability to maintain what level of safety and security that I can without facing the chance of losing it all because of a technicality that shouldn’t even be.
I would absolutely love to have a fully functional M-4A1 E and by all rights I should be able to without spending half a year’s salary and a year waiting for red tape in order to hope that there wasn’t some infantesimal little detail that scrapped the entire process so I could be told that I’d have to start the process all over again. And I don’t want one for any other reason than to feel at least somewhat confident that if some goon who has a full auto firearm that was modified and picked up from the street ends up in my way of moving on with my life or the lives of those around me, that I have at least something worthy of defending that freedom. What did I end up with instead? an overpriced semi automatic AR-15 style carbine that came shipped to my FFL with NO magazines, which I had to waste 4 hours of my time at the range, unable to shoot the firearm until the stupid background check which I have taken and passed so many times now that I must be on the leaderboard somewhere with, and then to still have to go home and order some really nice and so much less dangerous 15 round capacity mags for before I could take it back to where it was shipped to so that I could see how it shoots, one, round, at, a, time. I find this preposterous because I certainly don’t have any faith in the powers that be coming to the rescue should such a situation arise and what’s worse is the goons are going to take what I do have and if I’m lucky enough to be let go alive, not to mention the degraded feeling of just being butt raped by some goon, I’ve gotta fill out a ton of paperwork about the stolen firearm, and then start saving for another one… Something is very seriously wrong with people here and it’s not with the goons or us! It’s with the morons who have absolutely no idea about what the real issues are and think that sticking a BandAid on a wide open Juggler vein is going to stop the bleeding!
I read this article purely from curiosity since I wouldn’t ever buy a Glock anyway. I like my Ruger GP100 and speed loaders should I ever need more than six shoots. I’ve been carrying for more than 20 years and so far I haven’t even needed 1 shot. ROFL I am however interested in a Keltec pistol but the one I want is never in stock. I like the 5.7X28 cartridge better than anything else on the market these days. I recently converted my AR-15 to being an AR-57 with a 50 round magazine. It’s a very cool rifle now with less recoil but still effective downrange. You don’t want to be my target (ROFL).
Hooray, were all safe now (sarc) Read the book, the Rise of Americas gun
maybe go after the switch makers and criminals who use them.
Last I knew, most of the switches (those that aren’t made at home on 3D printers, that is) are smuggled in from China. And the primary users of them are “gangstas”, and enforcing laws against gangstas is “racist”, as every good libbie knows…
honestly with the recent news about “illegal orders” in the military, drugs coming across the border, illegals strong presence here, dismantling the constitution, and the crap morale of the american people……i think the dumb asses on the left want to give the country to china! worse yet they don’t even know that they won’t be rewarded but the direct opposite!
I know a lot of people love Glocks but my experience with my Glock 22 and Glock 26 were disappointing. Brand new yet multiple FTF and FTE issues. Got rid of both and learned my lesson. I’ll stick with my Beretta 92 in 9mm and my S&W Bodyguard 2.0 in .380. Both are flawless functioners. And one thing I’ve learned in my 72 spins around the sun is that engineers can’t defeat ingenuity!
Glock has not said, to my knowledge, that the V Series was not convertible by a so-called “switch.”
Maybe Glock knew this would happen and did it to show the magnitude of stupidity in trying to hold them responsible. Now Glock can say “Look we tried. It’s not on us anymore.”
Democrats would rather legislate and litigate a good company out of business than put those illegal gat makers and gang bangers in jail. Everything is upside-down with them AGAIN. Stay safe. j
Reminds me of the Armatix smart gun whose “secure” features were circumvented by placing a magnet against the slide. Despite all the new high-tech, no one has yet made a theft-proof car or a hacker-proof computer.
This was a fool’s errand from the get-go but merely shows how that which is old is new again. Recall some years back when Ronnie Barrett withdrew from the California market and refused to sell to LE/government entities after the state banned .50 rifles. This did not seem to affect his business much in the long run, Barrett is still around. Technically speaking, to think any number of design changes could prevent a conversion device is, again, a fool’s errand. Recall Colt putting a “shelf” in the sear pocket to prevent the installation of an auto sear; okay so we can use a lightning link. Colt uses an irregular pivot pin diameter to prevent swapping uppers. Well, rebarrel your Colt upper or use the offset pin. So creating extra steps is not really a deterrence to the end game.
Modern culture and technology has too many people with too much technical skill and access to technology to break such measures down- whether they are mechanical or computer. It seems to me going back some 25 or so years there was the DVD encryption based on region so you could not use a North American DVD in Europe for instance, well the encryption was broken within hours by a hacker when released.
Wow! The author sounds almost gleeful.
Since 2010, California has had a negative population increase. So for 15 years people with a brain have been leaving that state so that tells me, eventually, they will lose electoral votes, eventually government representatives and it will become a criminal state since they’re so easy on crime there. Then we can turn the State into a prison which will be followed by liberal Holly’s movie “Escape From California”, lol.
I’m OK with that.
The only idiots that care about a fully auto Glock to begin with are hood-rats that use them on each other down in the ‘hood’. You can’t control it. All it is, is a ‘spray & pray’ bullet hose. Much beyond a few feet you have trouble hitting a barn door. I know, I’ve shot one of my class 7 FFL friends’ gun. The damn things are dangerous!
I think they need to pass out those hood-rat auto switches for free and let the nature selection process run it’s course. ‘Murphy’ will fix that problem. That’ll also help keep the gene pool clean and reduces my tax burden having to take care of them.
Too much?
i agree 100%, i have shot a glock 18 in fully auto and accuracy with it in full auto is terrible, i prefer accuracy over the “spray and pray”
Glock never claimed that the V series was designed to block the “Glock Switch” or as a counter to law suits by any certain states. That was all made up nonsense by social media and so called youtube gun writers. Anyone with half a brain, including those who make the decisions at Glock inc. knows that it would take about an hour or less to redesign the switch to work on the new models so it makes no sense what so ever that this was their reason for the new design.
Then tell us, oh enlightened one, what is the reason Glock came out with the V series to begin with then?
Advertising propaganda is why.
Probably for the exact reasons they said they came out with the V series. To streamline their manufacturing processes. Why is it that the Gen 5 was nearly a complete make over from the Gen 4 but nobody had a fit about that?
If they had called it the Gen 6 no one would have ever raised an eyebrow.
Yeah, let’s make something illegal even more illegal instead of prosecuting the guys committing the crimes in the first place. Reminds me of the signs posted around Seattle Housing Authority properties…”Illegal Activity Prohibited”…
Stop selling in California. Period. Other states that are stupid as well. NY, NJ, CT, MA, and whatever else state.
I will buy an extra firearm per year to make up the financial loss. Just encourage these other firearms buyers to do the same.
What boggles my mind is the manufacturers who stay in such states.
And the people that stay in such states .
How about adding a ten year sentence to any criminal that uses the already illegal switch in any crime, no exceptions…
Prison is expensive and I don’t want to pay for housing such miscreants. Execute them.
I sometimes say that death is too good a punishment for some, however in cases like this, I must agree. Pieces of dung are always going to be a part of society. However when they have something to actually fear, there are certainly less of them ans that is good for the rest of us. These clowns think it’s funny! It’s certainly not funny at all for those of us who wish to have at least a slim chance to protect ourselves, our families, our property, and at least for me but I’m certain most other decent people, anyone these clowns decide to put in harms way with their reckless behaviors! They are going about this horribly wrong. The social issues that create pieces of $#!+ who even think that things like this enhance the proper use of the tool are what they would be working on if they really wanted to do anything about the real problem but we all know that’s not what they are after anyway. So instead of letting them waste our money playing games, why don’t we just get rid of them AND the PsOS they are claiming are the problem… Kill 2 birds with one stone!