The magazines now featured a metallic “skeleton” over which the polymer was molded, significantly improving feeding the barrel wall thickness was increased, the main recoil spring and guiding rod were assembled together in a “captive” configuration and the rear slide guide length was increased.
In 1988, the “Second Generation” Glock was introduced: the grip had slightly raised side panels with the same texture as the previous generation, but the, still straight front and back straps sported a deeply engraved squared checkering.
Note the thumb shelf, and additional pin on the locking piece introduced in the Gen 3 pistol, and the different texture on the pistol grip plus improved and enlaregd mag release button on the Gen 4 Is a Gen3 with a Gen4-marked slide, a Gen3 or a Gen4 pistol?Īnyone else who has something that I might have missed, jump in.Three Glock 17 generations compared: from left, Gen 2, Gen 3 and Gen 4. If you wanted to sell one of the converted pistols, THEN you might run into a problem with changing the markings on a pistol (the Gen4 designation on the slide might be considered part of the legal marking on the pistol, and defacing/removing/changing markings might be considered a crime under Federal law). If you own both pistols, and if the slides will safely work on both frames (see above), then I can't see how a temporary swap could cause any legal issues. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, and I didn't even stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, so take this for what it's worth. If you have any solid info/links on folks successfully doing this type of conversion, I'd be interested in reading about it. I have heard about an adapter for the Gen4 models which will allow the Gen3 spring to be used, but I'm not sure this will address all the potential problems with other parts like locking blocks and barrel locking ramps, etc. The full-size and compact Gen4s use a new/different recoil spring assembly (RSA), which means the slide, barrel and frame have different size cutouts for the RSA. Well, first let me discuss whether or not this is feasible.Īs far as I know, the Gen3 and Gen4 slides are not interchangeable.
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