"the only way you can decock one of them is to remove the magazine, empty the chamber, and then drop the firing pin. Otherwise you're stuck in SA mode after the first shot."
I've been teaching the Glock since 1989, and I've never heard such a lack of understanding of the Glock in my life. If you want to "de-cock" a Glock, TAKE YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER! The striker returns to rest, and that's it. As to SA mode, the Glock is considered a double-action only weapon per BATF. The Glock is the single, most reliable handgun mankind has developed since the combination of gunpowder and projectiles. My issue Beretta, on the other hand, is the biggest piece of crap in the handgun world. When the left-ear of the locking block starts cracking, if not caught, will shear off, locking up the gun completely. If a gunfight is NOT the time to nave a three-pound paperweight! As a Federal Officer, I work for about the only agency (one of 22 combined recently, post-911, that mandate a single weapon, and the Beretta 96 is it. If we, the agency firearms instructors had anything to say about it, Glocks would be on every hip here. The legacy officers of our sister agency, now we're all one, are wearing Glocks, and we'd LOVE to see that extended to the rest of us who came to the new agency, burdered with this boat-anchor of a gun.
Hamersly