By: Warren Gray
Copyright © 2024
“The Hush Puppy Glock-19 is a purpose-built combination pistol/suppressor system.
For those familiar with the original Welrod pistol, and B&T’s own VP9 and Station
Six pistols, the Hush Puppy Glock-19 is the latest iteration of a pistol destined to
fulfill highly specialized mission sets.”
— Hush Puppy Project, 2024.
The compact, combat-proven Glock-19 service pistol is the preferred sidearm of U.S. Army Special Forces, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, SEAL Team Six, Army Rangers, Air Force Special Tactics Squadrons, Marine Raiders, the CIA, U.S. Secret Service, and many foreign nations. It’s only natural that most of these special operations units would desire a suppressed version of the venerable Glock-19 for quiet, covert missions.
This is where the engineering expertise of B&T (formerly Brügger and Thomet), based in Thun, Switzerland, takes center stage. On April 26, 2022, my wife and I were deeply honored to have an unprecedented, private tour of the B&T factory in Thun by company founder and CEO Karl Brügger himself, followed by a great lunch with him at a local restaurant. Karl is an engineering genius, staying constantly up to date on the latest weapons developments, and he has an American branch office at B&T USA in Tampa, Florida.
At the 2024 SHOT Show in January, B&T USA introduced their new Glock-19 Hush Puppy pistol. It’s a complete kit, featuring a customized Glock-19 Gen. 5 handgun with extended and factory-threaded barrel, mounting a B&T Hush Puppy suppressor. Then, B&T installed a small switch (the Slide-Lock Device) that immobilizes the slide when desired, to reduce metallic cycling noise for the quietest-possible operation, and no ejected brass casings on the ground. Next, the top of the slide is custom-milled to accept an Aimpoint ACRO P-2 miniature, red-dot, optical sight, set almost as low as factory iron sights, and providing .5-MOA accuracy levels.
The unique Hush Puppy suppressor is only three inches long, utilizing replaceable polymer wipes instead of conical, metal baffles for the ultimate performance in noise reduction. The wipes will last about a dozen rounds and replacing them in the field takes only one minute. B&T states that the Hush Puppy is as quiet as its VP9 silenced, bolt-action pistol, which is exceptionally quiet. The overall Hush Puppy kit retails for about $2,200 to $2,800, including 100 rounds of Super Vel 147-grain or 158-grain FMJ (Mk. 144 Mod. 0) Hush Puppy subsonic ammunition, at 900 to 965 feet per second velocity.
In conclusion, the brand-new B&T Glock-19 Hush Puppy pistol fills a vital requirement for an exceptionally quiet handgun for covert, special operations missions, with the full, stopping-power capability of a 9mm service weapon, in a fairly compact, overall size. Once again, the superb, Swiss precision of B&T has hit a home run in firearms innovation!
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Warren Gray is a retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, with experience in joint special operations and counterterrorism, and is an NRA member. He served in Europe and the Middle East, earned Air Force and Navy parachutist wings, four college degrees, and was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Intelligence Operations Specialist Course, and the USAF Combat Targeting School. He is currently a published author, historian, recreational shooter, and hunter.