And you can't legally sell a firearm you built from an 80% lower/frame.Īctually yes you can. There is also a paper trail if you buy an 80% lower.

In any case I guess I should be thinking more like someone who CAN'T buy a handgun legally going out and buying a Glock illegally in a paper bag from some ghetto dude? I assume then the money works out, though I will admit to not being savvy as to the price of guns in Chicago, New York, LA, Seattle, Washington DC ghettos nowadays.

The again I just realized that even if you are not elegible to own a firearms in the first place, for a whole bunch of any of the right reasons, I guess you could just buy an 80% frame which does not require an FFL, and a complete slide, which does not either, and end up with a perfectly functioning handgun that's untraceable? Except for the fact that Glock serializes the slide and barrel to the gun so this would not work with factory parts which are still selling for obnoxious prices. Yep, but then there is a paper trail showing you sold it too as long as you follow the laws, no? I guess I look at it as a more cost issue than I probably should. There's still a paper trail showing you bought a Glock XX. So buying a complete gun and then selling the frame doesn't really fit in with the whole picture. The not being 'registered' IS the main attraction AFAIK So paying so much for slides makes no sense to me! Maybe someone can explain this to me? I'm truly curious as to what I'm missing. I also now have enough 15 round Shield Arms mags to feed the 43X and 48.īut my real question is WHY are slides more expensive than the actual compete guns? If I shop carefully, and I always do, I can still get a new 43 sub $500, a 43X sub $500 and a 48 MOS sub $600. And, I'll be listing the original 43x frame on GB because they now bring over $300+ and recover that money. So I found solution because while I was at Sportsman's Warehouse picking up my 3rd training 44 I saw a brand new 43x on the wall at pre-panic pricing and snatched it up right then and there, so now I will return the original slide to the 43 and I also just got a brand new 48X MOS on GB for a very good deal so I grabbed that too and that gives me the whole range of carry option on the same platform (43, 43X, 48).

Well, that's the gun that I brought with me to get certified as a trainer and in 3 days I shot over 400 rounds of ammo with a gun that I had shot 10 rounds on just to make sure it cycled ok and it was flawless!!! And I now have to admit I fell in love with the damn thing, enough that I have not had a 1911 on me since I can't remember when!!!Īnyway, so now I have the 43 frame and a bunch of mags laying around so I want to go bak to having two working guns so I started looking for a 43, 43x or 48 slide to put on the 43x frame I bought so I could return the slide back to the original 43.Īnd, DAMN!!! stripped slides, either Glock or aftermarket are running at about $180 on the low end for a tripped aftermarket to well over $300 on the MOS high end! Then throw in another $150-$200 for a barrel and another $100 for the slide bits to finish it up!!!! So you're looking at about $500 on the low end to get a new slide or take-off.Ĭomplete slides are going for insane money from well over $500+ for a regular 43 slide to over $700 for MOS versions! That is actually higher than a complete new gun!!! People are bidding them up on Gunbroker and eBay like crazy! So as an experiment, I later bought a brand new 43x-48 frame and installed the 43 slide on it basically making myself what I jokingly call a FrankenGlock 43x. The rifling and the crown of the barrel were slightly modified for increased precision.Sorry for the longish post but some background on this should help explain why I'm doing this.Īs you guys might remember I bought a Glock 43 a while back, mostly for my wife but she’s never cozied up to it and neither did I originally. The reversible magazine catch and ambidextrous slide stop lever make it ideal for left and right-handed shooters. The new frame design without finger grooves still allows to instantly customize its grip to accommodate any hand size by mounting the different back straps.

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