So as of yesterday I am a Glock Armorer and live in Central NJ (Mercer County). I'm trying to decide if I do anything with it, or just consider the $195 I spent on the class as knowledge into how my G19 works and how to maintain / repair it.
My question is even more basic then your reply. Do I even want to do anything with it and if so, how would I go about finding any customers and do I want people I don't know bringing a firearm into my home. I'm 15 minutes from Trenton and don't want someone showing up for repairs or an attempted to acquire anything from my home.
I had thought about contacting my local PD's, and offer my service as free labor allowing them to offload the work and have another office available for real police work, but not sure how that would go over.
As any business person will tell you, "free" is rarely a route to financial success. I doubt any department would want just any one working on duty guns, anyway.
Another consideration is liability. I don't mean liability if some one uses a gun you worked on to commit a crime. I mean, what if Joe Spud has you work on his gun, then claims you did something wrong and it "went off all by itself"? Even a bogus claim can cost big $$. Keep that in mind.
Yep thought so. I think the factory trigger will be fine. I may send you a note if I have a question. but since I don't plan on a modification I don't think I will have any problems for a long time.
There isn't a whole lot of things that you need to know about a Glock,3 pins and the whole FCG comes out,the slide disassembles fairly easy,so being a Glock Armorer is pretty much just a parts changer.
I never could understand why one would need to be a Glock armorer. But to each his own. My sig works fine and I never even been to a school for it.:wave:
So as of yesterday I am a Glock Armorer and live in Central NJ (Mercer County). I'm trying to decide if I do anything with it, or just consider the $195 I spent on the class as knowledge into how my G19 works and how to maintain / repair it.
I got my armorer course since I own 4 glocks and wanted to get spare parts for them all to last the rest of my lifetime, and know the ins/outs of the gun
I'm also now an armorer for our department
Some departments require that to maintain their firearms you must have attended and passed the course put on by the Company.But ever since the Internet got big and download speeds got really fast,and sites like youtube sprung up,you can learn just about anything you want just by searching the web,Glocks are probably the easiest guns to work on,few moving parts,and the parts are fairly inexpensive.Some guns you don't even want to open up unless you know what your doing,nothing worse than opening up any machinery and have a part fly out that immediately has you trying to figure out where the heck it came from
YouTube and the internet is good, but not the same as having someone standing next to you when you are doing the work. A class also has an advantage as your not screwing with your gun if you mess something up.
I thought Glocks didn't break? Why woould you need all the parts?:smile:
My friend is going to a course. Just for knowledge and to talk to other armorers and their knowledge off other firearms.
I wish I could find an armorer in Orlando that can take a look at my recently acquired Gen 2 19 that needs a major upgrade. I took it to one armorer who tried fixing it but he claims it would go full-auto if I were to load it.
If you think it needs that much work, try to find an experienced armorer and not someone new (unless you just want parts replaced). You could always go to Smyrna GA if you are up that way.
For non-LEO join GSSF, which allows you take the course as non-LEO. Pay $195 take the course, which is 1 day 8 hours and take the test. As you go through the course the instructor points out questions on the test. I think re-sellers get a special certificate that allows them to take the course.
But now that you fully understand the parts you can get confident in how they work (or more importantly why they don't work) in various situations. Too, you'll begin to understand why all the mall ninjas Glocks no longer function as designed, after they have watched a YOU TUBE video on how to disassemble their Glocks.
You can get parts cheap and practice tricking out stuff now with stock parts too!
A glock armorer certificate is a personal achievement but does not make you a gunsmith. Unless you are either an 01 or 07 FFL, you can't do ANY gun smithing except for personal use, not even on a casual basis.
Wow, I started this 2 years ago. I cannot believe it's still being posted to.
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