Do you own a Glock?

[Echo40]

There seems to be a running joke here in which everytime somebody buys a Glock they have to post a thread about it as if doing so is somehow uncommon or frowned upon, but the joke seems to have lost all meaning since Glocks are among the most common polymer framed, striker-fired semiautomatic pistols on the market.
If anything, it seems to me as if it's more unusual to encounter someone who doesn't own or has never owned a Glock.

So I figured I'd poll it and see just how many Glock owners are among us.

Personally, I don't own a Glock, but I do own a Smith & Wesson SIGMA, which is a Glock Clone.

 

[500SNW]

FORMER Glock owner who defected to wheelguns...and proud of it

 

[psjoe]

Yes, only semi I have held on to. A G26 gen 3 I purchased over 10 years ago.

 

[Kurusu]

No. But I shot a few. They are good guns. Just not eye pleasing to me.

 

[sodacan]

Glocks are excellent guns. Well designed and engineered, accurate and reliable. I did own one (30), and if it wasn't made out of plastic, I probably still would.

 

[Jerry_B]

In 45 ACP they are to beat for the utilitarian, mag swapping, accessory availability and capacity that come inherent with them.

There are finer shooting, nicer looking pistols, but in general, they check a lot of boxes for me.

In 9mm, they are an option, but thankfully, not the only option.

 

[ladder13]

No, but I doubt someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night would know the difference between a RM and a G19.

 

[Erocksmash]

I will own 3 by the nights out.... they are stupid proof IMO and fairly inexpensive.... they run and run and run. If it ever comes down to it and it has to go to police evidence, my feelings wont be hurt...

I beat the ever loving snot out of my 43x and she keeps going almost 2k out of her and runs exactly like she is supposed to, I'm talking straight mud,dirt, left out in storm's for the reason of reliability...(wife has it now)

My 19 has been my primary edc for some time now.. round count is unknown but I've had her (bought new an earley Austrian G3 model) for about 15yrs and am Now experiencing light primer strikes, so she will be fixed and retired to the house, I tried to do the whole fancy mirror polished slide,but got sick of it. So I had it re coated. Then I put a legion precision RMR slide with RMR on it and I just cant get the hang of it approx 2k on the RMR so she will be replaced with a 19x that will ride until she fails

 

[wheelyfun66]

Glock pistols work great for me.
I like 1911s, revolvers, polymer...
Guns are good

 

[ColbyBruce]

I have owned two dozen, still have 8 1/2 (29/30sf frame with a Advantage Arms .22 LR kit installed), five 9mm, two .357 Sig, a 10mm.

Glocks are affordable, available, reliable, replaceable, accurate, and easy to maintain. Lots of aftermarket support. The AK of handguns, though it definitely does not appeal to everyone. I live fifty miles from Glock, Inc. in Smyrna, GA where one can walk in with their handgun for service.

 

[armorer951]

I still have the issue gun I was given on my retirement, a Glock model 21. Also kept the model 36 I carried in Crime Scene. Never had a malfunction with the model 21. The model 36 was an early production example and had a few hiccups over the 4 years of carrying every day. I have a feeling that most of the problems with the sub-compact 36 were caused by me though, not the gun.

My son, who is a police officer, also has a trouble free model 21, and a model 30, which has never malfunctioned after more than 20K hardball and duty rounds over 17 plus years.

Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. In the eye of the LEO that frequently finds himself (or herself) in harms way, reliability is indeed, beautiful.

 

[Neversink n Klapperthal]

i used to own a few,but found i could shoot a 1911 much more accurately,so..

 

[lrrifleman]

I had to select the "no, I don't own a Glock" option , but it is not the most accurate option for me.

In March I plan to purchase a G17Gen5, even though I am awaiting delivery of a Sig P320 Xcompact that I recently won.This most likely will be the only Glock I purchase. Historically, I have not been fond of the Glock because it was "Tupperware" and didn't feel right in my hand, but that is changing.

I am purchasing a G17Gen5 for the following reasons:
a) the Gen5 got rid of the awful finger grooves
b) I work my club's GSSF matches, giving the club a weekend in gratitude for their providing me the training to be a Range Safety Officer, so it would be nice to shoot a match during the weekend.
c) being disabled, the GSSF courses of fire are like IDPA-light matches ... combat style without the movement (despite bad legs, I can be competitive with the other shooters).
d) with the prize structure, it can be easier to come home with some form of prize (if you are shooting a pistol you are familiar with).
e) with the GSSF membership, you can typically purchase one pistol per membership year for about 30% off MSRP.

 

[loknload]

Why yes I do own a Glock, as a matter of fact I own two of them!
First one I ever bought I purchased on a whim, never liked them. This was a like new 27, the original owner bought it, maybe put 50 rounds through it and traded it. The LGS taunted me until I bought, he gave me a real good price so I took it.
This was my entry into .40 cal. and I never regretted it. Shot it very well out of the box,,,,unbelievable!
Several years later I purchased a 33 from my son, he bought it and didn't like the .357 Sig.
I carry the 27 for CW purposes, the 33 just has a spot in the safe!
One thing though,,,I still don't like the trigger and that trigger safety business!

 

[Ranger514]

No Glock hate here. We own a G19 mainly because my wife wanted one. While it's "her gun," I've changed out the mediocre sights, and run several hundred rounds through it with no issues. It's accurate, dependable, and affordable...despite having virtually no aesthetic appeal. It fills a niche in our family of firearms for home protection. It might not be my favorite firearm, but I don't feel the least bit under gunned with it in my hand.

 

[okiegtrider]

This one should get to be fun.

What the heck, I'll throw in a pic too.

 

[CajunBass]

Personally, I don't own a Glock, but I do own a Smith & Wesson SIGMA, which is a Glock Clone.

That's the boat I'm in. I've owned a couple of Glocks but didn't care enough about them to keep them. They were good, reliable, etc., all the stuff people say about them. They just didn't really interest me enough to keep them.

I'm down to just one semi-pistol these days, and it's an SD9VE.

 

[ContinentalOp]

I don't currently have a Glock, but I used to own a Gen 3 Glock 23. I liked it, especially after I put the NY1/"-" trigger combo in it.

They're great guns. The only one that really interests me now is a Glock 19, and I may get one someday. When I was looking to get a compact 9mm I tried out both a Gen 4 and a Gen 5 G19, but they lost out to the Beretta PX4 Compact I also tried, all of them side-by-side (I also tried a Sig P229). I bought the PX4 and it's now my primary EDC. Aside from shooting it better, I also prefer a hammer-fired DA gun and liked that the PX4 Compact is in a similar size class to the G19.

As to posters "apologizing" for getting a Glock, or saying they've "gone over to the dark side," I don't get it either. Now, if they said that about getting a Hi-Point...

 

[Marshal Tom]

Yes, Glock 19 Gen4. Vicker's sights and a flat faced trigger. I probably shoot it more than any gun I own and don't even like it that much. it just plain works!

 

[Yaworski]

Long ago and far away, when it was so much better than it is today, I bought a Glock. I was excited to own a Glock . . . until I took it to the range.

Within the first 50 rounds the recoil spring guide broke and locked the gun up. Glock sent me a new one at no charge.

I hated the trigger. I tried every combination of springs and connectors, including the hard to get "target" connector, and the New York spring. Never could get a trigger that I liked.

I also couldn't hit well with it. I to keep everything in the black on a bullseye target with a DA revolver at 50 ft. The Glock went everywhere. A buddy was the DC Metropolitan Police firearms instructor, I asked him what was wrong with the gun. He punched a ragged hole in the target and said, "You're the problem."

I sold it and went back to 1911s.