Mind boggling stats from Glock

So, the gun shop I work at is a Glock stocking dealer. Our field reps stop by with some pretty huge numbers to think about. They said to order our Glocks 90 days in advance of when we want to put them on the shelf to sell. He also said they are running 3 shifts per day and producing 70,000 guns/week. At the time of me writing this post, and at the production rate I stated, Glock is backordered 490,000 guns as requested by distributors.

To me those are some pretty staggering numbers. Also, this is just one company. Think about all the others that can't keep up with demand either.

SEVENTY THOUSAND GUNS per WEEK?

Is that just to replace the kabooms, or is the customer demand that high?

That is the standard line from Glock..

Glock has been saying they are 400k plus units behind for the last 10 years.

Yup, not the first time I hear this.

But I do believe it, they sell like apple pies.

I wonder if this is in part responsible for the poor quality control coming out of Smyrna?

More Glocks in use now than have been 1911s made since 1911. What quality control problems? Nothing wrong with new Glocks. When a design glitch occurs, Glock quickly fixes it.

I love my Glocks. All 4 of em.

This.

I can attest to wait on a Glock for2 months.......but it was worth it. It fits nicely with my other 4

I had a 10 week wait for my GSSF G19 Gen4 - guess I have to get my order in early this year.

Right, I'm sure Glock will be along shortly to replace out of spec slides causing ejection problems on some current 9mm models

As long as the customer is willing to pay next day air shipping back to Glock, then wait a month or two.

I'm not buying a new one again, and I am advising my friends to do the same. Glock needs to go into damage control and inspect their machines and make sure they are replacing tools when they wear out. They need to offer free shipping both ways on returned guns. They need to go back to the old way of casting extractors and cleaning off the cast markings. If they did all those things, and quality significantly jumped, I would consider taking back my statement. But until then, Glock won't get another dime out of me (except maybe for some more G17 magazines- those seem to work fine).

It is amazing how every time I come to the Glock forums it is just mostly trolling or Glock haters.

What happened to this being a tech forum not GD?

yup

Nice. I haven't seen those statistics. Can't you point me in the right direction?

My SA 1911 jams a lot I would not trust my life to it, My glock 19 3rd Gen has almost 5k never jammed once. People knock glocks but they get the job done.

Yessir'

They won't be replacing out-of-spec slides, because the slides aren't out-of-spec and have nothing to do with the ejection problems. As a matter of fact, the ejection problems have been fixed.

that is a lot of Guns in one week

I enjoy my Glocks as well

Well over 5M Glocks have been produced, most of them still in service. Check out the production numbers for 1911s.

Quite possible.

McDonald's sells billions of burgers a week. It doesn't mean they have good quality burgers right??? So comparing a glock over other makers isn't impressive. I can get a LaRue 1911 dillo, but not a glock Dillo yet.

Our military bought about 3 Million of them up to 1945. Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Mexico, Norway, and Russia also had factories making 1911s around this time.
Up to that point my googling shows numbers like this: colt had sold about 250k commercial ones. That's up to 1945 alone, and just colt on the commercial side.

In 2009 alone, Kimber made ~79,000 pistols. http://www.atf.gov/statistics/download/afmer/2009-firearms-manufacturers-export-report.pdf
Looks like colt made 23k, springfield 13k. And that's just .45 1911s from what I can see.
Let's totally ignore the fact that there's what, 24+ manufacturers of 1911s right now. Let's also snip those above numbers from those big 3 firms and go on this: there's 100,000 built a year.
Now lets ignore all commercial 1911 pistols built from 1945 to 1992 too. Lets go on say, 1992 to 2012.
20 x 100,000 is what, 2 million?

Using those numbers 1911s built are at 5 million also. Keep in mind RIA's also produced/sold quite a lot of 1911s at its low price point. Inexact, yes, but it's hard to get exact numbers, but it isn't too much of a stretch, and 100k total 1911s produced/imported between all the firms making them these days is very likely on the low side!
Even then, glock could (but I sincerely doubt this is the case) narrowly edge out the 1911 in numbers. This idea that glocks have far and away more numbers produced as of right now than the 1911 is silly. It's close at the very least.

"Well not every 1911 is still in service", derp, that's a red herring. Tons of guns end up in safes, tons of guns are carried and not shot, etc etc. Many LEOs themselves on these boards mention how little some officers shoot their department issue service pistols, that they end up sitting in holsters collecting dust and are treated like just another piece of gear. Many guns end up like this. Many of these guns are glocks.
It's a red herring to bring up "not all of them are run hard derp derp."
(Does this make the glock a bad platform? Nope!)


That said thanks for bringing this up, I was happy to have done at least a little bit of googling and have gotten a ballpark figure idea

Yes! Glock#1

I believe it, we had about 400 G19's come in to our distributor and they were gone in the first hour after being logged in to the computer

Which is why it took eight generations of magazine and finally a new generation of handgun to make the .40 work right.

Meh, that's only a problem for someone who likes/shoots/wants .40S&W to begin with.

Never bothered me a bit, but YMMV.

The only two automatic handgun calibers I need are 9 and 10mm. If I had to use a single stack is want a 9x23.

Also this - 17,19,20,30.

Not fixed...only diagnosed and corrected for the guns currently being produced? Biiiiig difference

When it came to the Gen4 I was perfectly fine with the adjustable grip frame, new texture, and magazine catch changes. The RSA change isn't a big deal to me. The dual recoil spring is only going to make a huge difference in the big calibers and +p+ velocity stuff. I would trust my live to my G19. Now it is time to decide if I want to buy a G17 or G34. I have been wanting a new 45, but I am getting to the point in live where simple i better so caliber consolidation is easy.

Yea, those GEN4's are rock solid and the millions of GEN2/3 .40's are total dog shit.

That is incorrect.

Yep +1

It's always 2 groups of people. Haters and fanbois, and sometimes a third, pragmatists. Haters decry all Glocks. Fanbois gloss over or deny all the issues. Pragmatists can say that they have their good points and their bad points, and can tell you each from first-hand personal experience.

I count myself in the pragmatists group. I love my G17, it would probably miraculously function even if the rounds were loaded backwards. It rarely needs cleaning. And it is still very accurate after 10s of 1000s of rounds through the gun. My G26 on the other hand is a different story. It is one of the new production guns that are having serious problems. After my history with it, and dealing with Glock trying to get it fixed, I won't be buying another new Glock.

If someone blindly hates on Glocks without ever running one though its paces, that is bad. But it is just the same as someone who blindly accepts that Glocks = perfection.

I sure hope I fall in the pragmatists group. I've always tried to be objective about them, and other brands for that matter. They're certainly not perfect, and have had their challenges of late. I do truly hope they get their issues worked out.

If glock would make a single stack 9mm or 45 acp in their current line, I could see that wait time doubling.

They do have a single stack 45....G36

Exactly where would one need a Dillo to help with breaking down a Glock?

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