DPM System Technologies has introduced a Magazine Floorplate with Carbide Tip for Car Glass Breakage. The secret is the carbide tip. The idea is that you can use the butt of your weapon to break vehicle windows. Alternatively, you can assume a reverse grip on a magazine with a mounted floorplate and use it as a stand alone device.
Designed to fit the following Glock magazines: 9mm / 40s&w / 357SIG / .45 AUTO / .45 G.A.P. (Except for the Single – Stack Magazine, Glock 36 model). In addition to polymer versions in Black, Green, Tan, and Yellow there is also a Black aluminum model available.
I don’t know if I am convinced this is where a glass breaker belongs but I am sure some of our readers will find this useful.
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Astonishingly horrible idea.
I have mixed emotions on this. A little over a month ago I used my Glock 23C to shoot out a window of a car upside down in a river with 3 kids trapped inside. If I had a different option I would have used it. Think its a good idea? Who knows but it would have been nice to have someething on me that I have every day to assist in getting the three kids out. All in all, it turned out great though.
Just wanted to say what a great job you did in that instance, Chris. While I am sure you will reply that you just did what anyone else would do in the same situation, the truth is that most of us would love to believe that we would do as well as you did there. Hope all is well with you and the family you rescued.
Not buying it… but the MADS seems like something useful for certain type of work.
As someone who had a hell of a time once getting a juvenile car crash victim from a burning car, I suppose I can see the advantage of having one of those on your belt as a worst case means of getting into the vehicle and through a window…however, as a primary or secondary method of entry I agree, probably not the best place to have it. There is a lot of room here for something bad to happen (like guys that use a weapon light as a utility light) but that is a judgment and training issue by and large. Definitely a WORST case tool though…and with some of the other technologies and kit available nowadays (that were not around when the incident I mentioned occurred, it was years ago) it would be a worse case indeed. There may be specialty units that disagree of course, and if so power to ’em.
My glass breaker is on the heel of my knife. This way, I dont puncture the soft tissue of my palm when reloading under stress.
I think that this would be for the first magazine–the one in the gun. After all, if the gun is out and shooting you have another way of getting the glass broke.
I dunno, I suppose it beats the ol’ broken spark plug, but there’s got to be more appropriate tools for this purpose.
I second this, lol.
Ouch my tender palms!!!!!! This mental picture make me cringe
Try the Benchmade pen wih the Carbide window breaker tip or the Houdini rescue knife/ glass breaker, also by Benchmade.
Very bad idea. I am sure it makes malfunction drills interesting!
No kidding! How are you supposed to properly load a magazine with a friggin spike sticking out of the bottom of it? Good product idea…terrible execution.
These products have been around for years. Using a firearm as an impact weapon when guns don’t need to be out is a FAIL.
Stressing the magazine tube by impacting it against auto glass is asking to break the magazine tube lips, and having the magazine volcano it’s contents out the bottom rending your gun out of service. Seen it happen plenty with extensions on magazines that enhance stress on the connection.
There are dozens of pocket knives and other tools with glass breaker capabilities… carry one of those if you want to have a glass breaking option.
“Tap, rack, bleed” isn’t on my to-do list.
Almost everyone that trains with a gun has the wrong muscle memory needed to use this product. I’ll take a knife with carbide tip.
Super creative idea though, what else does DPM sell?
Bad things happen when you have a gun in your hand and you stop thinking it’s a gun, and start thinking it’s a glass breaker… especially if you try to grip it like a tool and get a good solid hold of it with all of your fingers…!
I see the bad idea fairy has been busy. As a Police Officer, I’ve had to break out a fair number of car windows. I’ve used Streamlights, crowbar and window punches. I see no legitimate reason to have this particular device when you can get a pen sized window punch, that you can carry with your other pens, that is much safer. Your pistol is not a multi-tool. This is a tragedy waiting to happen.
I have a spring punch glass breaker and a safety seatbelt cutter taped under the lid of the center console on all of the family vehicles.
Anyone want to sell “DPM Technologies” a idea for a football bat?
It’s as dumb a idea as their glass (and palm) breaker floorplate.
I know it is still early in the year, but I nominate DPM Tech for this years Darwin award,Manufacturer category.
A spring-loaded center punch is perfect for breaking automobile non-windshield glass without damaging your hand. Windshields also have a plastic film layer sandwiched in the middle of two sheets of glass (retards ejection of the vehicle occupants) that requires a knife to get through. For this reason, “rescue” knives have a point on the pommel to assist in breaking windows and plexiglass instead of using the center punch.
The belt pouches carried by EMT’s usually have a slot for carrying a center punch, along with slots for bandage scissors and other essential tools such as a penlight for checking pupils.
There is a tool out there that combines a seat belt cutter with a carbide tip for mounting in your vehicle with hook and loop fasteners to assist in self-rescue.
ed: The plastic film isn’t to retard the ejection of the occupants, it’s to prevent as much glass from flying around as possible.
You don’t use a knife to cut the glass, what you do is shatter the windshield and peel it back–if you’re going in that way. Mostly something like this would be used on a side window that isn’t the same sort of safety glass and would shatter into a small pile.
So, not intended for pocket carry, then?
What’s next? A brass knuckle magazine floor plate for enhanced pistol whipping? Seems like a bad idea. Carry a $5 window punch.