New Glock 19 MHS 9mm & Glock 23 MHS .40 S&W Photos

[Zarvan]

As we all know the competition between Glock and SIG for the military contract has created a great deal of coverage in recent months. While it may seem the story is over with the award given to SIG there is another side of this story that has not been addressed. I’ve obtained a good deal of information in the past week which will be published later this week.

In the meantime I wanted to share these photos of the pistols Glock entered into the Modular HandgunSystem (MHS) competition. The pistol are named the 9mm Glock 19 MHS and the .40 S&W Glock 23MHS.

Glock 23 MHS model in 40 S&W. Unlike other participants in the competition Glock only submitted one pistol rather than a full size and then a compact. The Glock 19 MHS has a Glock 17 frame with lanyard hole on the base of the grip as well as a flared magwell. The slide is from a Glock 19. Of course, the frame was shortened to accommodate the model 19 slide.

The MHS also has a manual thumb safety. The first Glock pistol with manual safety was developed at the request of the Austrian Army in 1982. This iteration of the safety is ambidextrous and marked S and F. As you can see the rest of the pistol is pure classic Glock.

The magazine photos are also in the desert tan type color. They come in standard Glock 17 capacity as well as extended magazines. From what I’ve been able to find out there has been no discussion on these being available to the public as yet. Time will tell. In the past Glock has been happy to produce pistols with manual safeties for large law enforcement and military contracts, but not willing to do so for consumer sales or smaller contracts.

The full article I mentioned in the beginning will be posted by Friday at the latest. Enjoy the photos!

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/06/27/glock-19-mhs-23-mhs-photos/