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He won't be taking it to the post office unless he's an FFL. It's best to just have a dealer send it out for you for a small fee at this point.Send it to Glock in Smyrna, GA and it will be back before you even realize it was gone and cost you 0 dollars only gas to get to the post office.
Will Glock send him a label to ship it USPS on their FFL?He won't be taking it to the post office unless he's an FFL. It's best to just have a dealer send it out for you for a small fee at this point.
It doesn't work like that. Can be done with UPS or Fedex but not USPS. USPS only moves handguns from an FFL with the correct paperwork done.Will Glock send him a label to ship it USPS on their FFL?
Thanks for the info and for asking: the slide doesn’t lock back when the magazine is empty. I’ve heard variably it’s the magazine or the spring, but I know it’s not my small hands on the slide release. Thoughts?You can swap out the slide release in one minute with nothing more than a punch. And new slide releases cost less than shipping a gun.
What problem are you having? The cause could be the slide stop or the magazine follower.
That is unlikely to be the slide stop. It is more likely to be the magazines. Does it happen on multiple magazines? Are the magazines new? What kind of magazines are you using? Number your magazines (for example, with a Sharpie) so that you know which magazine(s) has the problem.Thanks for the info and for asking: the slide doesn’t lock back when the magazine is empty. I’ve heard variably it’s the magazine or the spring, but I know it’s not my small hands on the slide release. Thoughts?
This....might be the mags unless it does it with all of them and new ones.That is unlikely to be the slide stop. It is more likely to be the magazines. Does it happen on multiple magazines? Are the magazines new? What kind of magazines are you using? Number your magazines (for example, with a Sharpie) so that you which magazine(s) has the problem.
Typically, I would replace the mag follower and mag springs.
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The slide stop is engaged by the follower pushing up on the slide stop. So if you have a worn follower or if the magazine spring isn’t strong enough to push the follower up strongly enough to engage the slide stop, then you can get a failure to lock open.
Disassembling Glock magazines can be a pain in the butt.
You can always swap out the slide stop, that is cheap and easy to do, but is unlikely to fix the problem.
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I had some new Glock mags that had weak springs from the factory. I replaced the springs.This....might be the mags unless it does it with all of them and new ones.
You can buy a glock toolkit for the front sight, pin punch and a mag floorplate remover on Amazon for like 8 bucks.
How old of a Glock? I have an old Gen 2 G19 that would not lock back after the last round. Tried multiple mags and still no go. If I manually cycled the slide back on an empty mag it would stay locked back but not after firing the last round. Went to a gun store that had a Glock armorer there and he was kind of stumped as he also tried different mags in it and pulled the slide back very quickly and let go to simulate firing the last round and it wouldn't stay back. Finally he wound up changing the trigger pin as this was a 2 pin G19. Low and behold that was the issue.Thanks for the info and for asking: the slide doesn’t lock back when the magazine is empty. I’ve heard variably it’s the magazine or the spring, but I know it’s not my small hands on the slide release. Thoughts?
Actually, it sort of sounds like you may be “limp wristing” the gun when you are shooting it. Does it happen with all your mags or only one specific mag? Don't take this personally, but how experienced of a shooter are you? Have you tried letting someone else shoot the gun to see if it still happens? Is the gun stock, or did you change out any parts? Is it factory ammo, or someone’s reloads? In general, problems like this are almost never the gun. It’s almost always the shooter, or sometimes a magazine issue. A little more detail would help resolve it. Whereabouts are you located?Thanks for the info and for asking: the slide doesn’t lock back when the magazine is empty. I’ve heard variably it’s the magazine or the spring, but I know it’s not my small hands on the slide release. Thoughts?
hey, it is a legit thing, even navy does that! real cool cats always have it backwards.because the owner put them on backwards
Trigger pin holds the slide release in and if something is wonky there binding the slide release or its little spring from popping the release up..... I could see it not locking back.How old of a Glock? I have an old Gen 2 G19 that would not lock back after the last round. Tried multiple mags and still no go. If I manually cycled the slide back on an empty mag it would stay locked back but not after firing the last round. Went to a gun store that had a Glock armorer there and he was kind of stumped as he also tried different mags in it and pulled the slide back very quickly and let go to simulate firing the last round and it wouldn't stay back. Finally he wound up changing the trigger pin as this was a 2 pin G19. Low and behold that was the issue.
Yeah this gen 2 is about as close to a gen 1 G19 as you can get (it was the 346 G19 imported into the US) so I’m sure it was worn enough as we swapped another trigger pin in and that did it. But we tried a bunch of different magazines thinking that was most likely the culprit.Trigger pin holds the slide release in and if something is wonky there binding the slide release or its little spring from popping the release up..... I could see it not locking back.