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Photo of two Glock 19 Gen 1 prototypes. Apparently the story goes the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control wanted smaller versions of the G17, but the didn’t want to wait for Glock’s Gen 2. Glock already had the compact 4” barrel slides made, but they were yet to finish the compact frame molds, so they just cut down G17 frames and hand finished them. Supposedly at their highest, only 56 of these prototypes existed, but since at the time, Glock only viewed them as a stopgap, a creation out of pure necessity, any G19 Gen 1 prototypes that were sent back to Glock after this period were destroyed. The only surviving ones were due to guns given to people or bought back by officers, resulting in only 20-25 examples existing today.