I have a feeling they are made in Austria and assembled here but am not sure.

Mine says Austria…

Mine claims Austria as well.

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I have a feeling they are made in Austria and assembled here...

That's the OP's real question.
Same kind of question we see many times with the SIG pistols, "made and assembled/proofed in Germany, or made in Germany and assembled here (US)?"

If it says "Austria" it may or may not have been assembled in USA, but all the parts are Austrian manufacture. If it's says "USA" the slide, frame and barrel were made here, but most, if not all of the internals are Austrian.
No difference in quality between the two.

Well, if it’s any consolation, I bought a new 19 MOS yesterday. When I went to put the RMR plate on, I noticed the plate wasn’t threaded for screws.....

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Originally posted by jljones:
Well, if it’s any consolation, I bought a new 19 MOS yesterday. When I went to put the RMR plate on, I noticed the plate wasn’t threaded for screws.....

woah... that's not good.
What's next? send it back or send it to a machine shop to get threaded?

Dealer gave me a new one. All is good.

Dump the factory plate for Forward Controls Design or C&H.

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Originally posted by sw4566:
If it says "Austria" it may or may not have been assembled in USA, but all the parts are Austrian manufacture. If it's says "USA" the slide, frame and barrel were made here, but most, if not all of the internals are Austrian.
No difference in quality between the two.

This. Never understood why it mattered to anybody. The only one I've cared about is a 19 Gen 3 I found with Austrian proof marks on it. A bunch of them came in maybe fifteen years ago.

A much as I like the thought of an Austrian proofed G43X (or any Glock for that matter), it's probably unlikely to encounter one(G43X) on this side of the pond. No problem for me to own a US assembled one but given the choice, I'd go Austrian.

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Originally posted by sw4566:
If it says "Austria" it may or may not have been assembled in USA, but all the parts are Austrian manufacture. If it's says "USA" the slide, frame and barrel were made here, but most, if not all of the internals are Austrian.
No difference in quality between the two.

Got curious about the content of the USA-marked guns and did the Google thing. From a 3 yr old article posted on the web that I found:

"The Glock USA pistols have American made frame, slide and barrel. The rest of the components come from Austria. All materials for manufacturing the frame, slide and barrels come from Austria and shipped to the US facility. There are no material procurements in the US. Glock Austria keeps 100% quality control of every aspect of production.

Another interesting note, Glock manufactures in-house every single component of the pistol down to springs and pins. All tooling, molds, fixtures, gauging, etc is manufactured in-house in Austria. This allows Glock a unique opportunity most US manufacturers do not exercise. Most US gun manufacturers manufacture certain components in-house but subcontract out others. They may also send parts outside to get heat treated, finish or any other coatings. Whereas, Glock has 100% control."

and

"The Austrian made guns come disassembled and are assembled and test fired in the US facility. Glock USA has about 25% of the production capability as the Austrian plant."

Article link

Like said above, it doesnt matter. All the raw materials come from Austria. The CNC machines come from Austria. A Made in USA Glock is identical in materials and machining, as a made in Austria Glock.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Well, if it’s any consolation, I bought a new 19 MOS yesterday. When I went to put the RMR plate on, I noticed the plate wasn’t threaded for screws.....

Why would the plate be threaded? I would think the slide would have threaded holes. Perhaps I dont know how these sights mount up.

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Originally posted by David Lee:

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Originally posted by jljones:
Well, if it’s any consolation, I bought a new 19 MOS yesterday. When I went to put the RMR plate on, I noticed the plate wasn’t threaded for screws.....

Why would the plate be threaded? I would think the slide would have threaded holes. Perhaps I dont know how these sights mount up.

I'm guessing he meant the slide wasn't threaded. Regardless, the threads to make the magic happen didn't exist on that gun, and do exist on the one he took home.

Looks like the RMR does mount to the plate by 4 screws.

The plate attaches to the slide via two screws and the optic to the plate by two screws. The factory plates are cheap cast metal trash that are at the same time overly thick and provide inadequate thread engagement to hold the optic. The design of the factory plate also fails to adequately secure the optic in the horizontal plane so the screws are left having literally do everything. They are prone to breakage and it's no wonder why.

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The factory plates are cheap cast metal trash...

More like they're even cheaper trashier MIM. Cracked a plate a few years ago after dropping one for my G19 MOS onto the concrete slab of my workshop. The newly exposed edges definitely had that powdery 'look' of MIM.