Glock has become part of the culture. Hell, most normal folks think it's an American pistol. Rappers don't talk about M&Ps and 1911s. My grandmother knows what a Glock is and she hates guns. Should I keep going? Nobody was rapping about Berettas.
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Glock has become part of the culture. Hell, most normal folks think it's an American pistol. Rappers don't talk about M&Ps and 1911s. My grandmother knows what a Glock is and she hates guns. Should I keep going? Nobody was rapping about Berettas.
I was thinking recently, Aghanistan / Iraq, etc... really, I was curious if anyone had... I realized that it was used in WW1, WW2 and Vietname. I own both and always have, my 1911 is as reliable as my Glock, heavier but just as reliable.
No - You can safely carry a Glock with one in the chamber. When the need arises, all you have to do is pull the trigger.
Not the 1911: take the safety off, cock the hammer and pull the trigger. Or if you are cocked and locked - click off safety and pull trigger. Wait - did I lower the hammer? OOOPS to late - you are now dead...
I prefer the simple design of point and shoot (which is why I chose a decocker CZ model instead of a safety equipped one) but even I know that the odds of that situation happening to someone who actually trains is near zero.
Trust me, I was more than just pissed when I got my first Kimber and it was giving me issues. That's why I haven't messed with them until I got my Ultra TLE. I told myself that if I were to ever seriously consider getting another Kimber, I would have to shoot it first. I got that chance and ran with it. I trust it with my life. I carry it. It works. I also had a Citadel Compact 1911 that ran like a dream and cost half as much, wish I never traded it off.
The results of the poll are pretty interesting: darn near 50/50.
It looks like nearly the same ratio of people prefer antiquated guns as there are that want a Socialist - Community Organizer in the White House. I wonder if they are the same people...
It looks like nearly the same ratio of people prefer antiquated guns as there are that want a Socialist - Community Organizer in the White House. I wonder if they are the same people...
Glock. I have put thousands and thousands of rounds through Glocks. I have been to Glock advanced armorer school. I'm a Glock guy.
What's an "advanced" Glock armorer course? Its got like 40 parts!
1911, all day, every day without equivocation...
I see this as speculation from someone not trained to handle a 1911 in a combat handgun capacity. 1911's are carried condition 1 period. There would be no "whoops the hammer is down" in a combat theater deployment situation or any other time for that matter. No trained 1911 user would make that mistake.
Assuming you don't carry cocked and locked. See, I do carry cocked and locked. The holster I have is kydex and its molded over the safety by design. No way for the safety to clicked off when the gun is secured in the holster. Not to mention the grip safety would need to be pressed in and the trigger would have to be pulled all at the same time.... Even without the holster I use today, I'd still carry cocked and locked because thats the way it was designed to be carried.
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Sorry.... I understand.... Lots o nam vets on here... It wasn't power or reliability that got it replaced in current conflicts... It was capacity pure and simple. I do have one friend that traded in his 1911 in nam just bc he didn't wanna be that close. Traded it in for a grenade launcher
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