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Originally Posted by jimmyj
Hi:
From previous posts forum members know that I have three immediate family members with the Saint Petersburg Florida Police Department that were in involved in the shooting incident where three officers were shot with two of the three killed.
Telephone conversation with one this P.M. discovered that the Agency's issued Glock Model 22 .40 S&W did not perform to expartations.
The officer rescue squad had number of FTF/FTF malfunctions while firing at the lone suspect hiding in the attic. These Glock Model 22s are ten years old and have had many, many rounds fired though them.
This happened to several of the Glocks involved in this shooting incident.
The weapons that worked perfectly were shotguns and AR-15s.
It will be interesting to see if new Glocks will be issued or another different manufacturer.
Jimmy
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This may or may not have any bearing on the incident in question: A few departments issuing 3rd gen .40 Glocks have had issues with stoppages, usually but not always with lights attached. Despite changes in magazine springs and followers Glock wasn't able to completely eliminate this from happening.
If you go to the 10-8 forums and search for "Glock 22 issue" you'll find lots of info on this. Several agencies that had issued the Glock 22 replaced them with Glock 17 because of the stoppages. I think the Indiana State Police was one of these agencies.