Do you own a Glock?

[raljr1]

All of the guns I own are manufactured primarily with steel. Nothing polymer in my safe.

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[HEADKNOCKER]

I too must admit that I have two Glocks in the arsenal
Glock 24 Gen 3 40 S&W & Glock 26 Gen 4 9mm
Haven't carried the Glocks since the M&P Shield came around

 

[Guevera]

This has been a Glock-free household for almost 20 years now - ever since I found the Walther P99 and P99C.

 

[reccpd101]

This has helped me realize I'm a bit of a hypocrite.
In conversations with other gun guys, like many here, I'll profess to loathe poly-pistols.
We've all heard the analogies - I compare my used, LE-trade G19 to my Estwing hammer. A great tool that reliably does all it's designed for and does it well. There's almost zero pride of ownership, but you can count on it working.

Then, realized that there's a few other poly-pistols I own and have stellar results with.....
Summer pocket carry 98% of the time is a Kahr PM9 I bought in the late 90's when it was about the only 'tiny 9' on the market. Still works great for that.

Wife owns and shoots two polys - a KelTec P3AT .380 occasionally and a S&W M&P 9mm Compact. Both have been extremely reliable.

I attended a S&W Armorer's Course some years back and was handed a voucher to get any M&P auto for the sum of $200. I didn't really want one all that much, but gosh - $200. Yeah, I checked the block for a M&P midsize .45 with thumb safety (per my M1911 proclivities). It's been a great gun and the one I use for occasional security contracting work.

So, guess I need to reign in any overt poly bashing, since it's obvious there really is a place for them. Heirlooms? No, but good no-nonsense tools.

Well said, sir

 

[reccpd101]

Has any one had a manual safety installed on a Glock?

 

[rockquarry]

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.

No, I don't own a Glock, or Glock facsimiles.

 

[Echo40]

Well, just as I expected, folks who own Glocks outnumber those who don't 2 to 1, and the joke is thus completely irrelevant.

However, I am a big surprised at how few people own Glock Clones such as the SIGMA, considering that this is the Smith & Wesson Forum, but in many ways that just goes to illustrate just how silly the whole joke about buying a Glock being controverial really is.

 

[Gene L]

Has any one had a manual safety installed on a Glock?

No, I spent all my safety money putting a safety on my Model 19.

 

[cmansguns]

Only to compete with LEO daughter

Never had any interest whatsoever with Glock or any other plastic fantastic. In fact...for 45 ACP I just love my 25-2 (with full moon of course). If I have a hankering for semi-auto in 45 ACP I just grab the old Ithaca 1911A1. Any times me or the family wanted 9mm range time it was the BHP or lately the Model 39-2.

EDC is still a J Frame on OWB carry.

So...…….fat, dumb, happy for bucoo years...then what? Youngest daughter decides to join a State Agency where she lives in North Carolina. That was several years ago and when home here on holidays or whatever would tag along to the range with me, toting her assigned duty weapon, Glock 21 Gen 4 in 45 ACP. She would shoot center mass holes like you wouldn't believe in std FBI silhouette targets, while I'm still reloading my M25, OR...all over the paper with the old Ithaca.

Solution? My own Glock 21 Gen 4 (and of course a Uplula loader) and now.....daughter dear.....we are on the same page at the same time. Results? She still leaves me in the dust, but at least the same amount of rounds are downrange and she's no longer waiting for the ol man to catch up

Only difference in her duty gun and mine is her serial number begins with NCSP.

 

[Empe]

Yes sir ...I own a G19 that I use for concealed carry & also as my bed side gun . And a G34 that I use for steel plate/action matches . Both have been 100% reliable . Actually I find them rather attractive in a form follows function type of a way . Very utilitarian ...everything you need & nothing you don't . Simplistic if you will .
I don't really understand the " either or " type of mentality. Yes I like my Glocks but I also like my Colt 1911 as well as my S&W & Ruger revolvers & also my Ruger MK II pistols.
They each have their place and I enjoy them all .

 

[oink]

Everyone should own a Glock!

AND

A 1911, a 10-22, a Ruger MK, a K or L frame, a .22 bolt, a pump shotgun, etc.

 

[mbliss57]

No glocks in my safes. I have owned a few and have never found one that fit me right or I liked. They feel like I am holding a 2x4 in my hand.
In fact we only have 2 striker fired guns. 1 is the S&W Shield 9mm for my wife and a Ruger SR9C that was bought along time ago and isn't worth enough money to sell.
There are plenty of hammer fired high cap all metal guns still being made by Sig and CZ. I prefer them or good used 3rd gen S&Ws.

 

[hemiram]

Nope, never have even wanted to own one. I do have some polymer guns, but the closest I get to a Glock are my 3 Taurus PT111 G2's. One unfired, one new sights only, one with a bunch of mods. My other polymer pistols are all traditional DA/SA, like my CZ P-07, Taurus PT 809, 809C, Sar K2 P, and my Sar CM9 Gen2, which is a steal for $250, and makes a lot of more expensive guns look very bad. I have Sigs, S&W 3rd Gens, and a bunch of CZ's and CZ clones, and the Sar CM9 Gen2 runs as well as any of them.

 

[Muddyboot]

Just one, a 43X, an excellent carry piece.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Tried a early model 19 but with the assault weapons ban magazines were expensive .... up to $100. Had a couple of 6906s and a bunch of mags.

Later tried the Model 26, actually twice, liked my 3913s ans 6906s better.

I do have one 1st Gen S&W M&P 9mm....... $300 new in box.

 

[bowzette]

43, 26, 19 (with AA .22lr conversion kit) and 34. The 19 and 34 have grip reductions to fit my hand and they all have Dawson Precision FO front sights and replacement black steel rear sights. I consider the Glocks the Great White Shark of Handguns-highly efficient butt ugly killing machines. I shoot revolvers a lot and carry sometimes. My Queen is a 3" RB 65 sold as a Smith Custom model. Bobbed hammer and DA to die for. I have a Smith 686+ PC 5", Kimber K6s, Ruger SAs, Ruger LCR .357 and other quality revolvers all of which have "heart and soul". The Glocks beauty is in its efficiency-wicked killing machine, no heart or soul, and no beauty, not art, just death!

 

[kmyers]

We have two here, model 17 and model 21, both are fine pistols. I do agree with the comments above, they are a working tool.