There are staked, pin-wedged and screw attached front sights. It's my understanding that some LE agencies required the front sights to be "permantently" attached via pin-wedging or staking, but I don't know if that's actually true, I've only read it. It seems that a lot of these guns are old LE guns so it would make sense.
Mine are Glock night sights and I bought the gun brand new in 07, but it was bought at the base exchange.