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If Glock made the 25 and 28 in the US, they would be perfectly legal, but I guess they don't see enough of a market to try to compete with all of the other manufacturers of blowback 380s in the US already.
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I suspect a strong factor is that many .380 buyers are extremely price-concious. It's possible that Glock feels there's simply not enough money in the venture; lowering the price to Bersa/Kel-Tec/LCP levels would cut their profit margin too much, while pricing the guns higher would limit sales. Glock is making PLENTY of money on their larger-caliber product line. Why even bother?
This is the same reason that S&W has sold very, very few .380s or pocket .22s in their corporate history.
It may also have to do with S&W's
other reason that they've never pushed these type of guns very hard... their marketing folks are concerned that they will cheapen the Glock brand too much.