The Glock 19 is quite possibly the most popular carry gun in the United States. The Glock 17’s compact sibling shaves just enough off the grip and slide to make it easy to carry, while still packing most of the shootability of it’s big brother. On the heels of Franklin Armory’s full sized G-S173 and G-S223 binary kits, for the 9mm Glock 17 Gen 3 and .40 S&W Glock 22 Gen 3, it only makes sense that they’d give some love to the 9mm Gen 3 Glock 19 as well. The new G-S193 does just that and may be just what Glock 19 fans were waiting for.
The G-S193
Franklin Armory was the first to release a binary kit for the Glock 17 and 22, and they’re the first to do it for the Glock 19 as well. The new G-S193 is the only pull-and-release trigger for Glocks that allows shooters to actively select between regular semiautomatic and Binary firing modes, and still safely cancel the release round.
The G-S193 is designed to work with the 9mm Glock 19 Gen 3 pistol. The binary kits for Glocks have a bit more to them than the trigger-based kits of Franklin’s other binary systems. The G series kits come as a whole new slide assembly, along with a trigger assembly. As a result of this you get a whole new slide, with some nice features to it. Franklin Armory has a nice series of installation videos on their website to walk you through the process if you need some guidance, too.
G-S193 Features
- Binary/Semiautomatic selector paddle
- Front and rear tritium night sights
- Optics ready to accommodate multiple adapter plates (sold separately)
- Semi/Binary mode indicator on back plate
- High-tactile front and rear slide serrations
- Anti-glare slide top serrations
It’s a good looking slide with some nice features to it, even aside form the binary mode. The G series kits run a decent bit more than Franklin’s other trigger kits, but much of this is because you are getting a whole new slide as well as a trigger. The tritium front and rear sights, optics cut and other features are all what you’d see on a premium slide to begin with. They’re nice upgrades over most stock Gen 3 Glocks slides, and you get the binary mode on top of that.
MSRP for Franklin Armory’s G-S193 Binary trigger and slide kit is $900. Shipping for the new G-S193 Binary trigger and slide kit is expected to begin this quarter.
For more information about G-S193 and other Franklin Armory products, visit FranklinArmory.com
So, if you add a binary trigger to a Glock with a switch, you get???
You’d get nothing since what makes the G18 and Glocks with switches automatic is all contained in the slide.
Which you replace as part of this kit.
You get $900 which would buy me two full cases of 9mm from my online membership supplier to practice with my 19’s, plus several boxes of good carry ammo.
Wonder which option I should go with – especially since my family loves our range time.
I don’t know about these binary triggers, but my first reaction is no thanks. I spent a day on the range with a Glock 18 once. That was fun. A friend had a contract to train U.S. State Department security. Some countries do not allow shoulder fired weapons, So my friend got some Glock 18s and detachable Fobus stocks and was working on a training regimen at the academy when he called me. My thing is, if you want a full auto weapon, buy a full auto weapon. Never mind bump stocks and binary triggers. They’re novelties.
Cool so any Glock 18’s for sale? Or anything more advanced than an MP5? I get where you are coming from but it is an argument that has about worn through (much like the available stock) and needs to be addressed on multiple fronts to improve. This is one of the fronts.
“Cool so any Glock 18’s for sale?”
I have a very vague recollection that there *might* be a few in civilian hands, but very few.
I do believe a small number were reverse-engineered by an NFA gunsmith, but my memory is fuzzy.
No way in HELL would I want to be seen by some goober cop carrying that thing, it looks too close to a real-deal G-18 for my comfort.
Here are pics of the the real-deal :
https://eu.glock.com/en/Technology/Full-Auto
Binaries anyways are currently illegal in Florida until someone challenges the ban, even then, ammo is too stinking expensive for my poor ass to waste it on ‘toys’ like that thing…
Glock18s came out after 1986 so…
https://blog.refactortactical.com/blog/glock-18/
Denada, then…
If I could afford full auto and/or deal with all the paperwork and govt up my @$$, I would. Unfortunately, I can’t so the binary trigger is the next best thing.
I agree with you that it is absolutely just a novelty, but that is all the reason needed (because it is fun).
I don’t actually have a need for anything full auto, but would want it anyway just for fun.
Safe and Jim, I understand. It’s just that full auto holds no fascination for me. I was paid to shoot them all my life. Everything from an HK MP-5 SD to an M-2. They’re fun, like all firearms are, but they’re just guns.
Only got paid to shoot the more standard ones for a decade but it’s more the unconstitutional restrictions at all levels for NFA than the guns themselves at this point.
All Mgs are novelties for us civis
Then no reason we shouldn’t own and use them if we want to.
I expect we’ll hear the usual complaints from the usual suspects.
Will Kamala put this on her Glock?
Perfection ?
🤔
I would more then likely have an accidental discharge with a weapon that fired upon the release of the trigger.
I am of the opinion that fully automatic would be safer.
I have often wondered how easy or difficult it would be to remain equally safe with a binary trigger. I imagine that it would double your semi-automatic rate of fire, though, which could be worth the extra potential safety effort.
Speaking of semi-automatic rate of fire, I am picturing that an average person could easily achieve a rate of fire of about three shots per second. With these binary triggers that average person would increase their rate of fire to about six shots per second–not too shabby! Equally interesting, with six shots per second rate of fire, that average person would empty their 17-round magazine is three seconds!!!
Of course how easy or difficult it would be to control that platform for accurate fire is anyone’s guess.
“I have often wondered how easy or difficult it would be to remain equally safe with a binary trigger.”
I don’t know about that particular gun, but I have heard they are built to allow switching back to standard semi-auto fire while the trigger is still depressed.
What gets hairy is when you are in binary mode with the trigger depressed, and you no longer have a free hand to switch it back… 🙁
“What gets hairy…”
Yeah, I don’t like the idea of having to keep the trigger depressed until I can flip a safety or switch. There’s a lot of these things out there in gun land, so I’m sure folks get it sorted, but nah, not interested. Now, that rotary trigger thingy that I saw on the u-tube once, that looked cool.
That being said, I’m glad these are available for those so inclined. This is a great country. Vote to keep it that way.
Pure idiocy in a gun like this. Some doofus is going to carry with this thing. In fact, lots of people will. An accident waiting to happen.
Do they make them for ARs and 10/22s. Excellent. Sounds like fun. That doesn’t mean they should go everywhere.
You knowingly put it in binary mode. You can put in safe or standard and release the trigger safely.
There’s another kit that only binary by someone else. That is very dangerous. You must fire the other round unless you take mag out and pull slide to eject.
I read this as $193 binary trigger and got excited.
This is the dumbest thing ever. And who has a Gen 3 Glock these days. Only these guys would think an overpriced accessory to an outdated gun in a recession was a good idea
Most of California and anyone who picked up a cheap police trade in. As to being wasteful wouldn’t that apply to any firearms or rounds not used for hunting?
Most (or is it all?) of the Polymer 80s out there are supposed to follow the Gen3 design. Not sure about the other 80% frames.
It’s my understanding that the patents have expired on the gen 3, people have compared it to being ‘open source’, which is why things like P80 and the PSA Dagger are based on that generation. They’re also all over, hence the huge gen 3 aftermarket support.
“It’s my understanding that the patents have expired on the gen 3, people have compared it to being ‘open source’,…”
Makes sense…
People I’ve talked to and the reviews I’ve seen all seem to say it only works with Glock Glocks. No aftermarket or knock offs. I love my PSA dagger but I don’t want to buy something that costs 4 times more than the gun for a coin toss, and I’m not buying a gen 3 glock since they’re not optics cut.
You can’t have a binary anything in California.
There are perhaps 5x more gen3s out there than 4-5s combined.
Trump Nation, it’s not a recession. The economy is doing better then it ever has.
It works like this, if you only sale one item but that item now cost 750% more then it did 4 years ago the company makes more money because it sales less and makes more. Plus there is a big savings on materials and work hours too.
Bidenomics is a win win.
And if you haven’t figured it out yet America is not a land for the poor, it’s the land of the free, there is freedom all around if you’ve got the money to buy it.
Forgive me, but I have what probably is a stupid question. I thought these were not “legal”. Won’t the Eh Eff Tee come down on anyone buying one of these ?
they are not illegal. Perhaps you are confusing them with the Force Reset Trigger thing the ATF said was a ‘machine gun’, or perhaps maybe confusing them with the so called ‘glock switch’ (which oddly enough isn’t manufactured, marketed or sold by Glock. A patent for the Glock auto-sear, AKA ‘glock switch’, was filed in 1996 and approved in 1998. Its invention is credited to a Venezuelan named Jorge A. Leon, who claims to have invented the device in 1987.)
“they are not illegal.”
In Florida, they are illegal, under the knee-jerk law passed after Parkland…
Completely legal if your state allows.
Some free states don’t, like Fla, that defines a mg differently from federal law.
Okla had this issue with the tac13/14s, mossberg not a shotguns but it’s a firearm that shoots sg shells
Only makes sense if the slide and barrel are ported.
“Only makes sense if the slide and barrel are ported.”
Quite true, muzzle-rise on those things in full-auto is not insignificant…
Rapid Fire + Squib Round = Weapon Destruction + Brain Damage or Blindness or Death. No Thanks
What kind of Temu ammo are you using where that is relevant for use with full auto? With that said yes confirming ammo quality would be a good idea for full auto but has never been a relevant issue for anything I used in the military beyond jams as a squib would typically fail to cycle.
UNCLEAR WRITING: I don’t understand two things in the article. Maybe, if I read it over and over, I’d understand them, but readers shouldn’t have to.
1) WHY is this trigger only sold with a slide? Not asking for an encyclopedia article on the subject, just a simple statement with, say, a two-sentences limit.
2) The article says, “… still safely cancel the release round”. Well, I must repeat request #1: Not asking for an encyclopedia article on the subject, just a simple statement with, say, a two-sentences limit
$900 for the binary gimmick for a pistol. Nein danke.
So you can shoot yourself in the foot and not have to pull the trigger to do it again. Like the dude who was holstering a Glock when the cinch/cord lock got caught in the trigger guard and he AD’d. So when you pull the gun out of the holster after that, it goes off again. Yikes. Sounds like fun.
A binary trigger for a gun lots of people carry for defensive purposes. What could go wrong??
In all seriousness. Does this mean that if you pull the trigger, you are committed to that second shot? If so, it’s stupid and ridiculous.
It’s one thing to put something like this on a “toy” gun.
But some idiot is going to carry with this trigger.
p.s. Just because I think it’s idiotic, doesn’t mean I think the Government should get involved. Stuff like this should simply fail in the marketplace.