I personally am not a glock hater but there is plenty not to love. For starters, if you actually use them as more than just range toys, they wear kind of rough ... the plastic will wear and look shiny/get slippery rather quickly, the tenifer finish will wear off and can easily end up with actual pitting in the slide metal ... after years of carrying/shooting my hk P2000 the finish in both the metal and plastic don't end up that way. The angle of the grip is wonky for some (not for me I quite like it) and then there is the fact that if you own one glock you've owned every glock and there is no realistic differentiation between any of them. Last is one thing that I think makes glocks cool because you can swap calibers but is also actually a safety issue for dummies .... you can insert a 9mm mag in a .40 glock and chamber and fire a round with no trouble (and I've seen people at the range do this) and they don't know the difference until it going ting ta ting ting rattling down the barrel and hits something in the neighboring lanes instead of theirsThen there is the real safety issue ...... the glock "safe action" trigger system is kind of a bad joke. I will not carry a glock with one in the chamber unless it's in a kydex or VERY stiff leather holster that completely encloses the trigger. The "safe action" really isn't safe at all and is nothing more than a medium pull single action only trigger with no safety and I blame it for 90% of the LEO "accidental discharges" that happen today. (and in training them I have seen ALOT of them) If you put a gun with a DAO or DA/SA in DA mode first shot that 12lb DA first round trigger pull is quite blatant and does NOT happen accidentally.
Yes, in all but the unusual circumstances, they go boom every time you pull the trigger and I own a bunch of them but I look at them as pretty much the bottom of the barrel
for guns that do ... and it has nothing to do with price ... it's about safety, how it wears, fit, finish and style.
I don't see the Glock trigger as an issue, I actually think that the trigger on a M&P is more likely to AD than a Glock.
What about a Kahr? They have a fairly light trigger pull and no external safety at all.
If you're careful with the gun like you're supposed to be, then you shouldn't ever have a AD. IMO guns with external manual thumb safeties can give you a false sense of security and some people may be a little more careless with such guns.
LEO's have accidents with them because many LEOs aren't gun enthusiasts like we are and they don't train with their sidearm enough. Not the guns fault.
You also mentioned the plastic getting smooth and shiny after a while and the tenifer wearing off... ALL GUNS will show wear if they're carried frequently. So you really haven't said anything about Glock that can't be said about other guns as well.
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what he said!
