Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Someone asked whats in the Glock first aid kit that I mentioned in the previous post.

The Glocks around here are the 9mm flavored ones. Most of the parts are interchangeable with the .40 caliber ones, although not all.

If you’ve spent any time fumbling around with the Glock you can see that there really isnt such a thing as ‘gunsmithing’ with a Glock, but rather Glock gunsmithing is mostly parts replacement. There isnt much of anything that needs to be fitted, polished, staked, punched, or swaged. Pop out the offending part, put in the new one, start shooting. Try that sometime with a 1911.

Anyway, heres a crappy cellphone pic of the kit in question:

Contents? Glock disassembly tool for starters..although really, all it is is a plastic handled steel punch that you could improvise with a nail, ballpoint pen or any other handy object. But, its got the Glock logo on it so……
Test plate (the orange thingy), G17 & G19 recoil spring, trigger spring, trigger and trigger bar assembly, slide lock with spring, connector, firing pin channel liner, firing pin spring, and a few other small parts that, while they may not break very often, are prone to getting lost if you detail strip the gun over a shag carpet. Total outlay of parts? I’d guess less than $40. I usually buy them from Lone Wolf although everyone seems to have them at a fairly good price…theyre not exactly expensive to manufacture.

As you can see, those little Pelican cases are pretty much ideal for storing these sorts of things. I slap a Glock sticker on the case so I know whats in it and it goes in the box with all my other gun support gear. Still have a few of those cases left if anyone is interested, by the way.