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Palmetto State Armory
Glock 19 Gen5 MOS
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Glock factory records
Who holds this maker's production records today, whether a serial table exists at all, and what it costs to have the archive read them.
Glock is the largest handgun maker in the world and publishes no serial lookup. There is no searchable portal, no table, no letter service — a fact that surprises people who assume a company its size must have one. The company answers serial enquiries by telephone through customer service, which is the only authoritative route. Everything else in circulation is community-built: the long-running Glock Serial Number Research Project, compiled from owner submissions and test-fire dates, which is genuinely useful and genuinely fallible. Two traps are worth naming. The date on the brown envelope in the case is the test-fire date, not the manufacturing date. And US-made pistols from Smyrna, Georgia carry no Austrian proof marks, so European barrel date-code charts do not apply to them at all.
Who holds the records today
Covers no public serial table at all
Serial table published by the maker?
No.
Glock publishes nothing. The Glock barrel date code (three letters encoding month and year) applies to Austrian-proofed pistols and does not encode the serial.
Archive letter
Cost: free
Waiting time: immediate
Observed 2026-10-14 — confirm with the archive before ordering.
Can a serial number date a Glock?
From the serial number alone, generally no — and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in this site. There is no published table to compare the number against, so any year you find online for this maker comes from a secondary reconstruction, and those are exactly as reliable as their author.
Dating then rests on what is on the gun: the maker's marking and address, the model and its catalogued period, proof marks and their era, patent dates, and the manufacturer's own model history.
Date a firearm by its serial number
The lookup covers only makers that publish their own browsable chart — and it says which, and cites the threshold behind every result.
Open the serial number lookup