Posted on 09/29/2012 4:43:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Ever wonder what it looks like when you fire a gun underwater? Firearm enthusiast Andrew Tuohy of VuurwapenBlog recently decided to find out. Taking his .40 Glock 22 into his swimming pool, he captured some high speed videos of himself firing a round using an ordinary Pentax Optio WG-2 waterproof compact camera (which has a 120fps movie recording mode). The photograph above is a still taken from one of the videos.
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Negligent discharge is 100% of time user induced. I don't know, but my guess is that there is a negligent discharge for every gun manufacture.
You can sling "evil glock" insults all day long, and post links of glocks "shooting" people, but it all boils down to operator error / complacentness, not the manufacture of the firearm.
As to the original post, cool stuff, nice to know my glock will shoot underwater, looks as if unless I am less then a foot away from my target it is pointless.
For concealed carry, you can’t control your draw, like you can in a outside holster.
A glock was made for police officers/ military with outside carry.
It works great as such. For concealed, if you are stupid enough to carry a gun with no effective safety, or one what may discharge when dropped, then you won’t be passing many of your genes on.
You can keep your stupid “glock can shoot underwater” because that’s about as useful as the other BS marketing glock does. The funniest one was the “advanced polymer gun” crap. Frankly i don’t care if the non-shooting parts are wooden furniture, or polymer, or metal. If metal, the only problem is weight. As for concealed carry, I try to stay < 20 ounces loaded. I carry frequently. 9mm, and a very accurate make. I also carry a spare mag, and a one had assist open knife.
Glock is not evil — just the wrong tool for concealed carry. This is one reason more and more compact subautos are coming with (1) manual safety and (2) drop safe protection...
Google pocket auto comparision, and there is a very good comparision of every major carry pistol (but not the surplus stuff like markov)
(1)My finger. Like I said before don't touch the trigger it will not go bang.
I carry concealed most of the time, as does my wife. Both of us have them holstered. (neither of us are stupid)
(2)Drop safety.
http://www.glock.com/english/pistols_adv04.htm
I don't give a rats ass if it shoots underwater. Frankly the only reason I have a Glock is being retired Military I got a really good deal on it.
I practice on my range a draw from carry. I can draw (and chamber if needed) quite effectively every time.
I would not recommend one for a novice shooter, but then again I would not advise a new shooter to carry concealed either.
Too say all negligent discharges are from Glocks, is false. To say all concealed Glock owners are stupid is also false.
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