KB's happen with all weapons.
Posted on 03/05/2006 6:25:43 AM PST by LouAvul
I want to buy a Glock. Currently my semiautos are Sig 200St and two 1911s (both Colt).
I don't have a 9mm yet have owned several: two Browning HPs and Sig 226.
I've never owned Glock and am leaning toward a model 17.
The concerns with Glock seem to be centered on the fact that there is no external safety for a semi-auto that remains cocked and locked.
There are also concerns about firing out of battery/kabooms.
However, the latter concerns are mostly for calibers other than 9mm and models other than the 17.
One poster from another forum:
This is also anecdotally more prevalent in Glocks although I suspect the huge number of Glocks in service contributes heavily here. It's also heavily centered on the .40 caliber. The 9mm Glocks are almost universally - even by Glock haters - acknowledged as exceedingly safe (as far as OOB and kBs go) and reliable.
Different poster, same forum, different thread:
9mm Glocks don't seem to be a problem for some reason... I think a big part of this is that the 9mms were considerably over-engineered. I think a lot of that over-engineering is why the .40 could be shoehorned into the same basic design with only minor changes. And I think that loss of margin is why the .40s, seem to be so much more problem prone.
I'm thinking that since the model 17 is the flagship of Glock that maybe they've worked out the bugs.
Tears........
I gotta "strap up" and go to the mall!!
It's so funny because we both know guys like that :)
ROFL! Funnier than heck. But there are actually some people out there that aren't too far from this guy.
On a radio show that takes afternoon calls, a few weeks ago a guy called in claiming to be a Navy SEAL who had been wounded in Afghanistan and was home recovering. The DJ (it was a music show, not a talk show) asked the guy what SEAL stood for. The guy hemmed and hawed and beat around the bush and finally hung up.
The radio show host warned the ladies in the audience not to get duped by people pretending to be soldiers or even SEALs. He never said what SEAL stood for in case someone else tried the same thing. He was laughing pretty hard.
I think it is SEa, Air, Land, SEAL. But the guy who called in had absolutely no clue.
What a moron.
If you can read it while imagining Dale Gribble's Voice-it's even better
mallninja.com is a true take off of guys with this attitude-they even have the original thread on Glaock talk that started it.
The more you read, the funnier it is
DOOh?1?
Glocktalk
Yeah, there is a few scanner monitoring police chasers, driving auctioned off Caprices, that fit that to a tee
I'll check out the site. Sounds like a "blast"!
Thanks for the laughs.
Yessir!!!
12 years and going strong.
I don't have a safety on my pencil either.
Knowledge of your weapon and training = safety, not a button.
KB's happen with all weapons.
More like Dale Gribble from "King of the Hill". Don't know how to post pics, but you get the idea
I'd seen that a couple days ago. Funny as heck!
:-)
LOL!!
See ya at the primaries!
What self respecting man takes his Subura brat Bugout vehicle to the local mini-mart without his trailer full of surplus MRE's? Geez.
What baffles me is how they'll feel safer with an additional choice of "Almost Go".
LOL! The funny thing is that the half-dozen or so gun boards I consult seem to breed mall-ninja/nine year olds whose knowledge of guns comes from movies and computer games.
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