When Vanity Fair is writing about Glock, something unusual is going on.
Usually, if you want Glock news, you read gun sites, dealer emails, and whatever people are muttering behind the counter. You do not usually get a mainstream magazine doing a big piece on Glock family drama, leadership issues, and company turmoil. But here we are.
That does not prove why things have felt weird on the dealer side, but it sure does suggest this is not a normal season for Glock.
From my side of the counter, it definitely has not felt normal.
For me, this did not just start this year. I started seeing signs of it back in January 2025 when some Glock orders I had placed got canceled. So while Glock later publicly framed things as streamlining the lineup, from the dealer side it felt like the shakeup had already started before most people realized it.
Then came the discontinued models. Then the V guns. Then Gen6.
If that was the simplification plan, it has been a funny way to show it.
From the dealer side, it has felt less like simplification and more like Glock cleaned the garage by moving the mess into three different corners. Maybe there is a grand plan behind it all. Maybe there are good reasons for it. But from out here, it has looked like discontinuations, V models, and Gen6 all showing up on the same train.
The other thing that stands out is how un-Glock the supply side has felt. I am used to Glock being boring in the best possible way. Put in the order, get the guns, move on with life. Lately it has felt less like a refrigerator and more like a refrigerator with emotional problems.
To be clear, I still like Glock. I like the design. I like the Safe Action system. I like the half-tension striker setup. I am not saying the sky is falling. I am just saying this is one of the few times in years where Glock has felt interesting for reasons other than the guns themselves.
And yes, I still sell them.
In fact, I am hoping to have a batch of Davidson’s Exclusive Glock 43X FR MOS Coyote pistols coming in. The coyote color is cool, but the bigger selling point is the optic cut. These are cut for the RMSc / Holosun K footprint, so optics like the Holosun EPS Carry, 407K, and 507K can mount directly without a plate. That is the kind of feature customers understand immediately, which is more than I can say for the rest of Glock’s current rollout.
Maybe six months from now all of this will look brilliant.
Right now, it just looks weird enough that even Vanity Fair noticed.