Unique Glock Gen 4 .45 GAP

[OWGEM]

From my brother in FL...

The Florida Highway Patrol is purchasing unique Glock pistols
that are unavailable, for now, to anyone else, according to Randy Pitts, a
Glock sales representative at the 2010 SHOT Show. These new pistols will replace the aging Beretta 96 handguns currently carried by FHP.
Recently the Florida Highway Patrol conducted testing for a new duty pistol in Tallahassee, Fla. One of the pistols they tested was the Gen 4 Glock.
The problem is Glock is only offering the Gen 4 in 9mm and .40 S&W, and FHP wanted a .45. To secure the contract of "about 3000 pistols," Glock agreed to manufacture a special run of Gen 4 pistols chambered in .45 GAP.

 

[shooter521]

True, but not really "breaking news"; the instructor at my Glock Armorer's re-certification course last October told us about that.

 

[OWGEM]

Sorry, had not heard.

 

[shooter521]

Sorry, had not heard.

No biggie; could be that the FHP is just now getting the guns into the hands of the troopers, even though the deal had been done for some time.

The moral of the story is that Glock will make whatever you want, if you wave enough money at them (see also "FBI magazine catch").