Originally Posted by Walt Sherrill

The "Truth about Guns" article says 60% of LEO agencies use Glocks. It doesn't say that how many Glocks are used in those agencies, or whether they are the only weapon used. The NYPD uses Glocks, too, but they also use S&Ws and SIGs. That claim doesn't tell you a darned thing about HOW MANY are used!!

CZ claims that their weapons are used in more places than any other gun. They might be right, but that doesn't mean that MORE CZs are used in all of those places than any other Gun.

The British Army, a couple of years ago, traded in their FN High Powers for Glock 17s, but that was only 25,000 handguns -- and the British Army is one of the larger armies in Europe. Latvia uses Glock, as does Norway, the French Special Forces, and the Iraqi Armed Forces. But handguns aren't issued to every military man or weapon. I'll bet all of those weapons, combined, together don't come close to the number of the Berettas used by the US Army -- even though the Iraqis bought 125,000 Glock 17s!

The article you cited about Glock (65% of LEOs) from Mother Earth, is 17 years old -- do you have any proof that it's still correct? During those years a lot of S&W 3rd Gen guns and Beretta were phased out, and not all of those agencies went to Glocks!

I don't doubt that a LOT of police departments use Glocks, but that doesn't mean those guns get shot a lot -- but your claim was, in effect, that Glocks were the equivalent of "battle tested" (either in military or police combat.) Except for the Iraqi Army, few of the national militaries using Glock are involved in combat! Indeed, most military small-arms combat is done with shoulder-fired weapons, not handguns. The vast majority of LEO guns are carried a lot and shot very little. (I've known a lot of LEOs, have a son who is a NC State Trooper, and most of them have never fired a shot on the job -- except when periodically qualifying.) I've owned a number of police trade-ins, and most of them are alike: some holster wear but like new internally.

That said, I like Glocks. I think it's an elegantly simple design. And while I only have two Glocks at the moment (a 37 and a 38), I'll likely have more, over time -- but they'll all get trigger upgrades. I loved my Glock 34, but I like my "Apex'd) M&P Pro, even better!

All that said, I continue to be wary of the reasoning many folks -- including YOU -- use in justifying their choice of weapons and how they interpret (or misintrepret) that data they cite.