The official announcement came in the late evening of December 6: in late February next year, Glock will launch its new generation of pistols.

After the puzzled reaction to the launch of Glock's V-series pistols on the US market back in late November this year – the V-series pistols being basically identical to the Glock Gen.5 pistols, except withy some peculiar modifications to the slide, trigger group and sear to prevent or at least hinder the installation of the infamous "Glock switch" – Glock will finally launch the sixth generation (or Gen6 for short) of its polymer frame, striker-fired handguns that revolutioned the world of service, defensive, and sporting pistols possibly more than any other since their first launch in the 1980s.

Glock's official website features a countdown right now, that marks the official release date as being 75 days away from December 6 – doing the math, that would be February 21, 2026.

That would suggest a planned debut at the 2026 edition of IWA OutdoorClassics, scheduled to be held in Nuremberg (Germany) from Fabruary 26 thru March 1, but they may very well be also introduced at the coming edition of SHOT Show, to take place in Las Vegas in January 2026. There is, however, some official information concerning the key features that will tell Glock's Gen6 pistols apart from the previous generations.

The Glock Gen6 pistols will be initially available only in 9mm Luger, specifically in four variants: the classic Glock 17 and Glock 19, and the more recent crossover Glock 45 and Glock 46 models. Interestingly enough, the Gen6 Glock 17 seems to be built on a frame with a shorter railed dust cover, almost 1911-ish.

The machined steel, black Tenifer-treated slides will retain most of the Gen5 Glock slide features; a front beveling to facilitate holstering, deep horizontal front and rear serrations, and a machined micro red dot sight interface compatible with a wide array of models through the use of interchangeable adapter plates.

Once again, interestingly, the Glock Gen6 pistols do not seem to employ either Glock's long-established MOS optics interface, nor the more recent COA system developed in collaboration with Aimpoint AB of Sweden and introduced in early 2025.

The black reinforced polymer frame of the Glock Gen6 pistols will feature an interchangeable grip backstrap system – all with an extended beavertail, which matches the undercut trigger guard to encourage a higher grip for better control – and a new RTF6 gripping texture that mixes the two previous RTF patterns into a more aggressive solution for a rock-solid hold in all conditions, either with or without gloves.

Gen6 Glock pistols don't feature the Gen3's typical front strap finger grooves, opting instead for textured integrated palm swells on both sides to better match the natural curve of any size of hand.

The slide stop release lever features a higher profile bottom border to prevent accidental activation, and a set of textured surfaces has been inserted on both sides of the frame, right above the trigger guard, to dub as both a thumb shelf and an indexing point for the trigger finger, for left-handed and right-handed shooters alike, thus improving both safe handling and shooting control.

Glock's Gen6 pistols will additionally come with a flat-face trigger for a constant correct finger placement, improving shooting performance, and a flared magwell for faster reloads.

Whether or not the new Gen6 Glock pistols will feature the same changes to the trigger and sear found on the V-series pistols meant to frustrate the installation of illegal "Glock switches" – the modifications have already been defeated anyway, as new compatible "Glock switches" have popped up on the black market in the United States bare days after the official launch of the V-series pistols – but the slide end plate does seem to be of a different shape compared to previous Glock pistol generations, and will me made out of metal instead of polymer.