Gun review: Glock 19 by Peshawar based gun manufacturer

Recently, there has been an influx of local copies of Glock 19 in Pakistan. It wanted to review one such piece for my blog. A gun enthusiast fan purchased a Glock 19 from a famous gun manufacturer for Rs 40,000/-.

From the outside, the gun is exact replica of original Glock 19. From magazine capacity to checkering on the grip, everything is just Glock. The finish of the receiver is bit dull as compared to shiny surface of the original Glock19. The dull shine is primarily due to reason that local manufacturers are still not close to Glock's patented carbon fiber frames. Localisation of part has its ups and downs. The down side is that manufacturer saves cost at the price of quality. No quality control also makes local gunmakers to experiment with cheap substandard material.

The gun in question didnt fire after three rounds. The striker left very small impressions on primers. I decided to troubleshoot the gun and field stripped it completely. Below are the pictures of internals.

You can see alot of tooling marks inside the slide. Slide is milled into a solid block of metal. A little attention to detail would have polished the slide from inside and remove the tooling marks. Finish of the slide from outside is too good to judge it as local copy. The silver coloured notch is firing pin block safety. It does not allow the striker to hit the bullet until a part of the trigger presses this silver button. I initially suspected that this firing pin block is the culprit which is not allowing the striker to hit the primer.

Slight striker marks on the primers. The ammunition was Chinese red box, which does not have any reputation of having hard primers. The first few bullets that were fired were from the same box of ammunition. 

The part of the trigger assembly which presses the firing pin block. My initial diagnosis was that this part is little low in height and is not pressing the block fully. When you press the trigger, this notch moves upwards while going backwards , pressing the firing bin block.

These are internals of the slide of the gun. I have removed the extractor from the slide, took out the firing pin block and then test fired the gun. Sadly, the gun didnt fire. 

Next step would be to check the spring on firing pin striker. I will also clean the striker assembly to rule out blockage due to fouling, junk and debris in the striker.
Overall experience in terms of locally manufactured/cloned striker pistol is not very impressive. No one would expect the gun to fail at crucial times and leave you at the brutality of a criminal.