[IWA 2022] Umarex's Glock Paintball and Air Pistols

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Published: March 10th, 2022

[IWA 2022] Umarex's Glock Paintball and Air Pistols

Umarex’s Glock air pistols (Alexander Straube)

Glocks are very popular, a statement that can earn someone the title of “Captain Obvious”. It is still true, though. So it should not come as a surprise to anyone that the German gunmaker Umarex is giving this pistol its very special attention and opening up the air pistol and paintball gun market. The company was licensed by Glock to make copies of the gun for various non-lethal uses. It started last year with a gas-gun version. Due to the enthusiastic acceptance and the great demand, it was decided to develop further variants. The next two copies, Glock paintball and air pistols, were presented at the IWA.

Umarex's Glock paintball pistol (Alexander Straube)

The first is an airsoft Glock with a steel slide. It was designed primarily as a training weapon. The goal was therefore to keep them as close to the original as possible, allowing the user to experience a very high degree of realism. However, this will appeal greatly to serious airsoft players. It uses 20 rounds of 6 mm BB for ammunition, but has a comparatively strong recoil. This is not a bug, but a feature. Because here, too, the aim was to copy the behavior of the original pistol as much as possible.

Umarex's Glock air pistols (Alexander Straube)

For this reason, the magazine was also designed to be closed, so that the pellets are not visible as it is with other airsoft guns. The imagination of dealing with a real magazine for a real Glock should remain intact – a request made directly by customers to Umarex.

A closer look at the breech of Umarex's Glock air pistol (Alexander Straube)

It is also noteworthy, though not unique, that the magazine is a unit in which the projectiles and gas cartridge are combined. This has two advantages:

When the magazine is removed, the gun is safe. Without the magazine, neither gas nor projectiles come out of the barrel.
Since each magazine has its own gas tank, you no longer have to pay attention to it separately. The gun is either loaded or not.

The second example is basically the same weapon but it’s a Glock paintball replica. It fires .43 caliber ammunition. It can be filled with different types of bullets including gelatin, hard plastic, tracer (UV), rubber bullets, chalk and pepper. This pistol offers a wide range of possible uses, from leisure activities to training and non-lethal self-defense. A variety of Glock models are available including Gen 4 and 5 Glock 17s, the Glock 19X and the Glock 18, 19, 42 and 34. As with the gas pistol, the two new variants can be combined with original Glock equipment.

Alexander Straube is a German freelance writer, chief editor of FIPS and author of the book on the German gun debate.

#Glock #Training #Paintball #Umarex #LessLethal #IWA2022 #AirSoft

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Suppressed on Mar 10, 2022

I have a faint memory of an article about some company making an Airsoft Glock but only selling it to LEO/Mil or something like that. Am I tripping or does anyone else remember that?

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- Ranger Rick on Mar 10, 2022
  
  @Suppressed I believe you are correct, I seem to recall seeing it at SHOT many years ago.
  
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- T243 on Mar 10, 2022
  
  @Suppressed So my mind already is slipping a little bit, but if its not false memory there have been two. First there was Strike Arms. That company name is a fact, no matter if there are two companys or not. This Strike Arms Company actually was just a regular VegaForceCompany (VFC) manufactured Glock, back when VFC didnt made any commercial Glock Airsofts. This product was LE only, and advertised as the first Glock Airsoft officialy licensed after Glock tried for 1-2 decades to sue everyone outside of Asia whom is releasing anything with a brand name on. Thats why Gen3 is so popular with the first Tokio Marui pattern Glocks from Asia I guess (even when there have been Airsoft Glocks before). It went big with the "TM" Glocks. So big, that even today they lead the market and its like an AR15: A thousand and one brands make parts in TM pattern. Anyway, than the Story went further that VFC released commercial Glocks too, and they have been quite bad in performance at the beginning. That shifted, and the performance and reliabilty got on pair with other Gas operated Airsofts. Than the Story continued: Stark Arms Story with the Glock didnt went further I guess, or is not of any further interest for the commercial public. Anyways: Now comes the part where I am not sure if I am confusing something. I think after Stark Arms, which was ~4-6 years ago, Glock Glock released some Airsoft Glock, again made via Umarex by VFC, but this time without Stark Arms, and again LE exclusive, but by Glock Glock :P And than, Glock screwed it and opened commercial sales for exactly the same product, which now is known as "VFC Umarex Glock Deluxe Edition", featuring a milled aluminium slide and CO² Magazines instead of the Propane/Butane Magazines and the Zinc Alloy slide. To this day, I think VFC still makes them. To this day, there is no official MOS Airsoft Variant :( And not too many Gen5 Airsoft Variants either. Heck, not even alot of Glock variants. Typical 17, 19, 19X, 34. Thats it. Wow - I dont even own a Glock, I dont like their grip angle and their small trigger guard and their push button mag release, but I remember crap like that... Long Story short: Skip Airsoft Glocks for shooting BBs, and just get some CO² Airsoft to mount Simgun.at to it. Airsoft sucks. Force2Force Training rules. So, taking the good of Airsoft and making up for the bad with SimGun IMHO is the most economical solution for a small enterprise or private citizens to gather and train Force on Force.
  
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- T243 on Mar 10, 2022
  
  @T243 *Stark Arms
  
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- Suppressed on Mar 10, 2022
  
  @T243 Very thorough response, thank you.
  
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Jeff on Mar 10, 2022

This looks like what some doofus took to Watsonville high school. And he got arrested.
See KSBW.com, search "fake gun"
WATSONVILLE, Calif. —
Watsonville High School was briefly placed on lockdown Monday afternoon following reports of a gun on campus.
Police say a school resource officer assigned to the school responded and found the suspect within minutes.
They say the 14-year-old suspect was carrying a replica firearm that looks and weighs the same as a real gun.
The student was arrested.
The case is still under investigation.

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- AlbinoBlackRhino on Mar 11, 2022
  
  @Jeff Airsoft is not something invented yesterday, you know that?
  
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