The Glock G45 Gen6 is a crossover striker-fired 9mm built for duty and home defense. It follows the Gen5 G45 and arrives optic ready, with the dot screwing directly into the slide through one of three supplied plates. Glock blends a compact-length slide with a full-size frame here, so the grip holds 17 rounds behind a 4.02-inch barrel.

The box holds three magazines, three optic plates, a magazine speed loader, a cleaning set, a backstrap set and a case. The trigger is flat faced as standard and Glock gives the pull as 5.8 lbs. The grip carries Gen6's RTF6 texture with a palm swell and an extended thumb rest, so the firing hand indexes without a grip sleeve. No optic and no manual safety come with it.

If you're cross-shopping, the Glock G45 Gen5 MOS matches the barrel, the 7.44-inch length and the 5.47-inch grip, weighs 1.42 oz more at 24.52 oz, and mounts a dot on an adapter plate instead of into the slide. The Glock G19 Gen6 carries the same frame changes on a grip 0.43 inches shorter, holding 15 rounds at 22.58 oz, which conceals where the G45's full-size grip shows. The G45 is the pair's long-grip option on the same slide length.