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Glocks have a bad reputation when used to shoot reloads. There is a weakness in the side of the chamber, and if a reload has been previously fired with the same side to the weakness, it will often fail toward your hand. Very unpleasant, I have it on good authority.

Either don’t shoot reloads, or have a very elaborate and formal method of keeping track of which way the round was positioned each time it is fired, so that is can never be fired twice with the weakness against the same part of the brass case.

I have reloaded and shot thousands of reloads in my Glocks. It is the 40s that have the reputation for kabooms, and that was in the early models.

Glock has sloppy tolerances, which is one reason why they are so reliable. They hardly ever jam, stovepipe or force you to clear a round. That loose tolerance allowed excessive pressures in some of their early 40s and created some problems, BUT on every one of them sent back to glock there was evidence of hot loads.

I shoot normal reloads. That means when it calls for 5 grains of bullseye I LOAD 5 grains, and dont' think "boy howdy, this will really drill em if I run on up to 8 or so." I do reasonable checks when I load and cull split or bulged cases, but you can reload straightwall case brass NUMBERS of times and not worry about an accident.

Glocks really have no greater number of kabooms than any other handgun. I have pics of sigs, colts, smith/wesson, kimbers, H&Ks, rugers and berettas that all blew up. They are mechanical instruments under tremendous pressure and they will sometimes fail. Glocks fail "more" simply because there are so many "more" of them.