I work in plain clothes so having the TLR7A on all the time and just leaving it on for the rare occasions when I gear up for a warrant makes my life much easier. The seven a is adequate for indoors and short distances. For big open spaces I would be running a rifle as my primary.
Having a TLR7A on every gun is better than having some people with full-size weapon lights and some people without them.
The other advantage from an institutional point of you is you don’t have to go out of your way to keep the lens of the TLR7A clean the way you do with a full-size weapon light. A full-size weapon light with a bunch of carbon on the lens can be less effective than a clean TLR7A.
I certainly wouldn’t be against an option for full-size weapon lights for those that want them.
Last edited by HCM; 05-06-2021 at 11:45 AM.
Well, I was close in what I was guessing you would choose.
I hedged on the G45 MOS, on the premise that the shorter slide would be a touch better in the patrol car, and that they could carry the same pistol through their career, including plain clothes (not UC).
Am I wrong in assuming one of the reasons you chose the 17 was the placement of the hump, and how it seems to be a little easier for the smaller handed recruits, vs the 19?
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No. The 17/19 hump thing is like 1/3 shoot 19s better, 1/3 shoot 17s better and 1/3 agnostic between the two.
Glock specifics aside most people shoot guns with full-size grips better.
In our last pistol acquisition my agency initially wanted a Glock 19 size gun since we are a plain clothes entry.
We were looking at adopting the 15 round compact version of the P3 20 but found a notable performance increase with a full-size grip and a very slight difference in length between the standard 15 round grip and the full-size X carry grip.
Since this was specified as a police department the primary use would be uniformed carry in a duty Rig.
You could just as easily specify a choice among variance of the same gun. I.e. Allow a choice of the 19, 45, 47, 17, and 30 for all similarly equipped.
For a plain clothes organization you could make a 19 with a mag well to provide additional pinky support the standard gun with the option for a 45 or 17. I don’t think the results would be much different.
In reality you normally want to pick a duty load first and a gun to launch at second. In this instance as much as I like the performance of my agencies current duty load the 124 gold.plus P, I would probably go with the critical duty 135 green as adopted by the FBI in order to have some thing that worked in both full-size Glocks and the slim line blocks to provide options for off duty and back up guns with the same characteristics.
When Glock finally decides to make a GEN 5 G26 MOS I would add it for plainclothes, BUG and off duty use only.