Glock mounted glass breaker
FAB Defense, an Israeli company, makes a picatinny rail mounted glass breaker for the Glock.
A pretty interesting device. It appears to need to be cocked first and then triggered when it hits the glass, unlike emergency window breakers which come cocked from the factory and need a significant amount of force, usually 12 lbs, applied to release the spring.
It is selling for $124 at this website which ships internationally.
Hat Tip: Blue Gun Blog and GunPundit
UPDATE: Manufacturer name and website provided by DoubleTapper. Thanks DT.
Israeli’s always make good stuff…
I could actually see a good use for this, unlike most things that people hang off their glocks. I might just buy a separate glass punch but a good idea that actually serves a purpose.
Yeah, but is there a holster for that thang??? That looks like the worst kind of trouble to either draw while it’s attached, or draw, then fiddle with it while you’re sliding and tightening it into place.
If you are carrying a gun, you are probably carrying a knife, why spend over $100 on something you already have a tool for.
In today’s economy, look for tools that do more then one thing.
Adapt, improvise, overcome! Not over spend!!
Tactical, not TactiCOOL!!
V/R
C_S
This comes into play with entry were now it is a lot easier to break windows. From the website it looks like Israel might be using these. A lot more of a useful tool than a lot of people would think. Also only one guy on the team would need this the rest could stick on the bayonets (LOL).
but C_S, you’re just not taking in all the possibilities here; take that there glass-breaker-thingy, put it on your glock, mount your glock on that foregrip/frame situation that steve posted earlier in the week, and you will never have to fear a window pane again. or you could do that pistol-bayonet too…options, man, options.
“Life saving, quick and clean glass breaking”
While I would appreciate people breaking my loved ones and I out of a car in an emergency, I don’t know how I would feel about it if it involved having a Glock pointed at me.
I was under the impression that if you needed a drawn pistol to brake glass, you’d just pull the trigger….
It becomes more and more silly everyday!
All great options men!! Thanks for trying to enlighten me, but I’m still not buying it.
I shoot a 1911 with no P-rail!! Sorry!!
V/R
C_S
The emergency window breakers (like the ResqMe – got one of them on my keychain) actually don’t have a pre-cocked spring, but rather get cocked when you push them against the glass. Once past the trigger point they get released and smash the glass. Big advantage: They are multiple use – unless something pre-cocked which would have to be re-cocked afterwards.
Still, hard to see why they didn’t use that principle here – using a ResqMe is a straightforward push motion, it would be EASY to do with a pistol in your hand.
On a list of 10 of things I would hang off my glock that would be number 25.
Alternatively, go to your local home improvement/hardware store and pick up a spring-loaded centerpunch for about $6. Or the ResQMe mentioned about for $12.
Either way, maintain some freakin’ dignity!
@David
But look, they have thoughtfully included a rail on the glass breaker so that you can hang things 1 -24 off your Glock.
putting rails on the bottom of rail-mounted gadgetry is clearly the way to go.
mount up enough of these gadgets, and you’ll have yourself a (perhaps slightly wobbly) vertical foregrip on your glock.
seriously, if you look at all the stuff this company makes (fab defense), they run about a half silly, half useful ratio. this is definitely in the useful category. and let me ’splain why..
first off, this is obviously NOT meant to be carried mounted all the time. best case scenario might be to have a lil’ pouch or a duty belt loop that has a section of rail on it and keep it attached to that. that way you could have it available to use in a bad guy situation, or an emergency situation in which you need to get someone out of a burning car/house, but don’t wanna point a weapon at them.
second, it’s pre-cocked so you don’t have to exert a ton of force to get it to trigger. while there may be value to having one that you can continually just try again and again, if it don’t work the first time, what’s the chances of the subsequent tries working?
third, handheld glass breakers are great (check out the “bust-a-cap”, that thing is awesome), but if you’re point-man, or first officer on scene to a situation that requires you to go in before backup arrives, being able to break glass without pulling your weapon off of the perp or the direction you know he’s in or may be coming from… that’s priceless.
4th, whoever said to just shoot to break the glass? i hope you aren’t a cop. glass tends to deflect bullets. in fact, i’ve seen 9mm shot at glass at almost no angle deflect over 90 degrees without even breaking it. and, even if you get pretty clean penetration glass and water nearly ALWAYS change the trajectory of bullets. i can’t think of a situation in which i would shoot glass and not give a hoot where the bullet actually went. oh, and then there’s muzzle blast, and if it’s dark, muzzle flash. oh and don’t forget burning powder particles or glass particles shooting back at you. much less of that when you a glass breaker instead of a bullet
5th, if it isn’t a glass-breaker, it won’t break glass reliably. batons, pistol butts/muzzles, fists, or like someone suggested above… a knife? seriously… i’d pay money to see you try to break a window with a knife. if you go to the website of that bust-a-cap company i mentioned earlier, they have a “blooper real”, if you will, of footage of cops trying to break windows and failing miserably.
so.. with all that in consideration, obviously this thing has the potential to be a useful tool. best idea ever? clearly not, but potential to be mega-handy in a few different types of situations? no doubt in my mind.
These things are actual designed for tactical entry.
Say a entry team stacks up on a bus,the way it is done is by members of the assault team on both sides of the bus but on alternate windows(on ladders) so the is no chance of blue on blue,and front and back of the bus.Team members will enter front and back of the bus,if any of the bad guys duck down behined the seats the assaultier on that window can break the glass the take out the threat in one motion.
But not that much use for anything else.