Gen 1 Glock - Holy Tupperware Batman!!!

s&wchad · Sep 18, 2020

Now I’ve officially seen it all! Nothing else could surprise me.

A Gen 1 Glock 17 went for $9550.00 at auction. It received 42 bids and it looks like 6 different buyers were in the game up to $7K, including a well respected dealer!

You could have a nice Registered Mag, a couple of Pythons or a Barrett 82A1 for that money. What is this world coming to????

GLOCK 17 GEN1 VERY EARLY RARE 1984 EXCELLENT w/ BOX NO RESERVE - Semi Auto Pistols at GunBroker.com : 874927193

Sgt911 · Sep 18, 2020

That is a very early one ....but still. I bought and carried a gen one from 87-91 and I sold it to a buddy for $250.

Marshal Tom · Sep 18, 2020

You Cant Fix Stupid!

Borderboss · Sep 18, 2020

Shocks me too, but apparently the early Austrian Gen 1 guns are highly prized by the Glock fanboys out there. So much so that Glock just introduced a limited run of new Gen 1s that is getting a lot of Glock folks jazzed up.

Those are the same folks who look at a great S&W wheel gun and go "yuck". To each his own.

old tanker · Sep 18, 2020

I have a Gen1, but not because I am a fan of Glocks. Rather this one is more homage to Heller and his attorney Alan Gura. It is marked "MPDC" on the slide indicating it was formerly the property of the DC Metropolitan Police department.

I like to imagine the anguish that Mayor Fenty and the DC council were forced to endure by having to sell those guns as surplus so they could pay the legal fees awarded to Gura. Doubtless they would have rather former PD guns were scrapped rather than commercial channels and thereby to the great unwashed.

PatriotX · Sep 18, 2020

Borderboss said:
Those are the same folks who look at a great S&W wheel gun and go "yuck". To each his own.

It’s the darn vidja games and the inter webs.

Ruined taste for a generation.

Rammer Jammer · Sep 18, 2020

That's just sad

hkcavalier · Sep 18, 2020

"Glock collectors"

BillBond · Sep 18, 2020

The only way I would buy a Gen 1 Glock is if it were real cheap.
Obviously I am not a "Glock collector".

Mrnurse · Sep 18, 2020

Very Early Glocks are easy to convert to Glock 18 mode.

murphydog · Sep 18, 2020

I remember the very first Glocks available in the US, and something about the LE community getting them at 50% retail. I thought $450 (retail) or so for a plastic gun was excessive and didn't give them much thought.

I think this post is also instructive in the sense that our S & W semi-auto collector colleagues may eventually outnumber the revolver group. Not soon but eventually.

Glashaus · Sep 18, 2020

That is actually a very rare Glock, a unicorn if you will. Not my cup of tea, I like the Glocks that I have for working guns.

pharmer · Sep 18, 2020

old tanker said:
I have a Gen1, but not because I am a fan of Glocks. Rather this one is more homage to Heller and his attorney Alan Gura. It is marked "MPDC" on the slide indicating it was formerly the property of the DC Metropolitan Police department.

I have an MPDC marked gun but it is Gen 2. Joe

Beauetienne · Sep 18, 2020

I threw up a little in the back of my throat.

Bullet Bob · Sep 18, 2020

Like 'em, hate 'em, or in between; they were game changers. Early models of anything that are successful will have a group of collectors.

Good luck to them.

HOUSTON RICK · Sep 18, 2020

IF I had it, I believe that I would sell that one.

SPEEDGUNNER · Sep 19, 2020

hkcavalier said:
"Glock collectors"

This reminds me of an experience I had with Glock years ago. I had purchased an early Glock 21 in .45ACP and found the frame to have a very small crack in the polymer so I returned it to Glock for repair/replacement. When they returned it to me with a new frame the serial number did not match the slide and barrel. I called and spoke to their service department to try to explain the importance (to me) that the parts match. I remember the rep telling me "these pistols will never have any collector value, we literally make tens of thousands of the same model." Haha...wonder if he saw that listing for the Gen 1 17?

Crazy.

stansdds · Sep 19, 2020

Collectable Glocks? That is surely a sign of the apocalypse!

Sgt911 · Sep 19, 2020

Because of this thread I contacted the guy I sold My Gen 1 to. He said he just qualified with it last week. I think I sold it to him in 1991, so he is still carrying and qualifying with it 29 years later.

jeffrefrig · Sep 19, 2020

Collectable Glock...sounds like an oxymoron. But, a gun person is a gun person.

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