Duty pistols with 5.5lb triggers

[Slavex]

So anyone know anyone have any experience with issued Glocks and 5.5lb triggers? Buddies agency is doing just that, got the chance to play with a 19 today and I have to say, it's pretty sweet.

[OnionsAndDragons]

Any more specifics, Slavex?

All our local LEOs rock the stock Glock at roughly 5.5-6.6lbs.

[Slavex]

Glock 17 and 19 and a few 26s, they are converting over from 40 smurf and weak to 9mm. Instead of the New York setup, or whatever super heavy setup they had before, they now have super nice triggers. I was quite surprised at how they felt, my old Glock 17 with the Zev trigger isn't really much better. I'd always assumed cop guns were going to be heavy, but he says that the new thinking is, if you have to shoot someone, the better the trigger the better the shoot.

[TheNewbie]

I would say 90 some odd percent of cops who carry glock have no idea about the trigger weight or trigger weight alternatives. I seriously had a conversation with a fellow officer who thought one advantage to the .45 was that getting rounds just close to the bad guy would make them feel the energy of the bullet. Oh and knock down power is more important than penetration.


I honestly had rather see heavier triggers in glocks for many cops.

[SLG]

All of my glocks have stock triggers in them. They work just fine.

[SteveB]

All of my glocks have stock triggers in them. They work just fine.

I can understand dicking around with trigger parts in range or gamer guns for fun. I think that Glocks for carry need to have stock trigger parts in them for reasons of tactical, criminal and civil liability.

[Slavex]

I should note these guns are all 100% stock factory guns, except sights, those are Trijicon HDs. But the springs, and everything else are stock 100% Glock. No tuning, no messing about.

[JHC]

So anyone know anyone have any experience with issued Glocks and 5.5lb triggers? Buddies agency is doing just that, got the chance to play with a 19 today and I have to say, it's pretty sweet.

I think it's a decent trigger. However I'm not sure they are a 5.5lb trigger. With my RCBS scale all of mine with the "minus" connector (which used to be called the 3.5 connector) scaled 5.25 - 5.5 lbs, measured on the lower third of the trigger. My late model G43 however scales 5.0 on the nose.

[PearTree]

The "5.5lb" trigger on my issued gun is almost 8lbs and feels like a box of sand was dumped on the connector. Like always with Glock, YMMV.

[45dotACP]

I kinda like the stock Gen 4 triggers tbh.

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[BehindBlueI's]

We've had the stock 5.5 trigger since going to Gen 3. We've seen no uptick in ND/AD events. The only NDs I'm aware of were from pulling the trigger to remove the slide without clearing the chamber first, which trigger weight would not effect.

[psalms144.1]

My agency doesn't issue GLOCKs, but authorizes them as personal duty weapons. I know less than 1/2 our agents carry issued weapons, and I'd guess, from what I've seen and talking to other FIs across the agency that at least 1/2 of the personal weapons are GLOCKs. We have had zero issues with standard stock triggers (or any other triggers, for that matter).

[Rex G]

I think NDs have more to do with training and self-discipline than trigger pull weight. We buy our duty pistols, within guidelines, and stock Glocks have been a popular choice. (Nation-wide, most USA peace officers buy their/our own weapons, even those working for very large PDs.) We are prohibited from modifying the stock trigger assemblies, though there is no prohibition on carrying a Glock with the lighter connector, if it came that way from Glock.

The .40 and 10mm Glocks I carried from 2002 to 2005, before switching to SIGs, had factory "minus" connectors and NY trigger springs, resulting in a more-preferable pull. That was before the prohibition of trigger mods. My current 9mm duty/carry Glocks have the factory-installed parts, which is OK, now that I am used to it.