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Drawn/MS Paint Glock 19 MHS image
That's not the MHS verson, the MHS version has a manual safety, as the article says, which is absent in that image and has "19MHS" on the slide, not "19X". I have a picture of a real G19 MHS, but I've had it so long I don't know where I got it nor what the copyright status is. Advice on how to proceed correcting this, Wikipedians? I generally don't upload images since 9 times out of 10, they end up deleted with no reason given. TheNomad416 (talk) 09:58, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Anyone? TheNomad416 (talk) 22:28, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- You might want to post the photo on this talk page to see if anyone recognizes it. You might not be able to do that through wiki commons if you don't know the copyright status, but maybe you could post the photo on some other site and link to it on this page. MiguelMunoz (talk) 18:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
"Users" section
I would propose that, for the USA, we not list individual state and local police forces that use Glock firearms. Right now there are 11 such forces listed, but I'm pretty sure these are just the ones where someone happened to bother to look up what types of firearms that particular police force used and find a citation. According to Google, there's a total of over 17,500 state and local law enforcement agencies in the US, and I'm pretty sure that at least dozens of these, if not hundreds or even thousands, use Glocks, so if we were to list all of them here it'd become quite unruly, but having just a handful of them listed creates the misleading impression that their uses is rather rare among state and local law enforcement in the US. So I think a better alternative is to simply write "various state and local police forces", and get rid of the individual listings, unless someone wants to spin off a separate "List of US police forces using Glocks" article. -2003:CA:873A:152A:9C4D:5B38:8C7C:86AC (talk) 13:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
- This would be a good decision. Glocks are the de facto standard for every police department in the US. 65 percent of issued police service weapons are Glocks with that number stretching closer to 90% in some areas. There is no way we'd ever accurately maintain such a list. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 16:35, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
- Agreed. We could include a note that they are the de facto standard among municipal police departments. I think we should just explicitly list federal users. Sethcampbell7293 (talk) 00:02, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- TBH it might not even be feasible for federal. Depending on the definition of "law enforcement agency" (i.e. an actual agency tasked primarily with a law enforcement mission? Or just a federal agency that employees some number of law enforcement officers?) that number could range anywhere from 60-100+. We might have to keep it even more generic than that and just say that it's widely used nationwide at all levels and point to the statistics w/ refs. Maybe provide 2-3 selected examples of the largest or most notable state/federal users. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 00:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Glock recently introduced Gen 6 pistols.
Brian Wesley Holmes (talk) 00:53, 21 January 2026 (UTC)