Key Points – Glock’s 19X “crossover” pistol, merging a G17 frame with a G19 slide, was its contender in the 2017 US Army Modular Handgun System competition to replace the Beretta M9 ...

In the past, I have reported about the Glock 19X 9mm pistol, explaining why, despite its quality, it failed to win the U.S. Armed Forces contract to replace the Beretta 92F/M9.

Released early in 2018, Glock’s new G19X 9 mm pistol is the civilian model of the company’s submission to the U.S. Army’s Modular Handgun System (MHS) trial.

Their first ever “Crossover” pistol, the GLOCK 19X, which combines the best features of two of its most popular and most trusted field-tested platforms. The full-size GLOCK 17 ...

The 17 and 19-round magazines that come standard with the 19X package (2x19, 1x17) worked just fine, though I did have to strip the mag a couple times for lack of dropping free on a reload.

The Glock 19X is also popular with civilians even though it lost the XM Modular Handgun System bid. As soon as it was released to the public in 2018, it sold 100,000 pistols in less than six months.