Earlier this month, RECOIL announced that the details of the new Glock 19X handgun had been leaked. Since then, the internet has been abuzz with feedback about the unusual design. For those who missed the memo, the G19X is essentially a full-size G17 frame with a compact G19 slide, plus Coyote coloration and a few other Gen5 features.

We saw many of our social media followers wondering why Glock combined these parts in this manner, rather than producing the opposite — that is, a compact frame with a full-size slide for enhanced accuracy and concealability. The answer is that the Glock 19X is essentially the production civilian model of the MHS handgun that Glock was developing for a potential U.S. Army contract. This explains its design, but it's still a design that seems better suited as a duty gun than it'd be in a civilian CCW scenario.

In order to make the new Glock 19X into a better CCW gun for civilians, Dave and Iain at RECOILtv applied some creative thinking… and a saw. The result can be summarized as G19X – X = G19. Check out the making of a DIY Gen5 G19 in the video below:

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