On October 20, 2025, Lenny Magill, the founder and CEO of the GlockStore, one of the country’s largest Glock retailers, posted a video on YouTube alleging that Glock would soon be discontinuing nearly all of its older pistols to introduce new “V Series” models. Magill said that the new models will have “improved” triggers and slides, which he speculated “will prevent the Glock from accepting a switch that will convert it to full-auto.”
In recent years, Glocks illegally converted into DIY machine guns using small, easy-to-3D-print devices known as “Glock switches” have caused terror throughout the country, as cities have seen an explosion of these machine guns being used in all manners of violent crime.
Shortly after Magill’s announcement, a Reddit user shared a message to gun dealers from gun distributor Lipsey’s that appeared to confirm it. The message stated that on November 30, “Glock will stop shipments on all” Gen3, Gen4, and Gen5 pistols — older models that can be modified with switches. The message also noted that “[c]hanges to V series [pistols] include internal slide and trigger improvements.”
As The Reload put it, Glock is redesigning its pistols as “Lawsuits and Legislation Pile Up.”
The “V Series is Coming”
On October 21, USA Carry reported that it had received a message from Glock (shown below) confirming the news while claiming that Magill was “not authorized to speak for GLOCK.”
The message includes a list of the new models that will soon become available as well as a photo of the Glock 17 V, which looks like a Gen5 model but has the letter “V” stamped on the slide and frame. Glock noted, “Externally, the pistols [retain] the same trusted look and performance you already know,” implying that the V Series models have been altered internally.
This past April, Glock discontinued 34 pistol models shortly after distributors — including the GlockStore — leaked that the company would be doing so. At the time, the company stated that it was reducing its “current commercial portfolio” in “order to focus on the products that will drive future innovation and growth.”
Pressuring Glock to Fix the Problem
As of this writing, Glock itself has not addressed whether the new V Series models are compatible with switches, but the news comes just 10 days after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1127 into law. The new law prohibits gun dealers in the state from selling “machinegun-convertible pistols” to civilians if they accept switches and have a Glock-style trigger component called a “cruciform trigger bar.”
Other gun media outlets and insiders have drawn the same conclusion as the GlockStore’s Lenny Magill — that the V Series models are a response to California’s new law. In a recent video, guntuber “Mrgunsngear” said that he spoke to a contact at Glock “off the record” and claims that he was told “by people who know” that the new models will have new trigger mechanisms and redesigned slides and backplates to make them “harder to convert.”1Mrgunsngear, “All Glocks Discontinued & New Details On Glock V Series – Update!” YouTube, October 22, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zqAOkdA18A, at 7:55, 9:05, and 9:42.
AB 1127 was enacted to help curb the proliferation of pistols converted into machine guns using switches, which have been linked to over 20 mass shootings across the U.S. in recent years. According to a report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), police recovered 11,088 machine gun conversion devices, including switches, between 2019 and 2023, reflecting a 784-percent increase, and 5,816 were recovered in 2023 alone.
Lawmakers in Illinois, Maryland, and New York have proposed legislation similar to AB 1127, and New York also passed a related bill in 2024 that exposes the manufacturers of easily converted pistols to lawsuits.
Additionally, Glock has been the subject of numerous lawsuits related to the easy convertibility of its pistols, including those filed by Chicago, Minnesota, New Jersey, Baltimore and Maryland, and Seattle. Recent judicial decisions in three of those cases gave the green light for discovery to begin in multiple jurisdictions, requiring Glock to produce documents and be subject to deposition questioning under oath. Other decisions are still pending.
The combination of growing public awareness of the danger of switches, litigation, and new state legislation has put Glock in a tenuous position. Time will tell if the company’s new V Series pistols are no longer easy to convert with switches in minutes, but millions of older Glocks are still in circulation in the U.S., and several other gun makers sell Glock clones.