Wow, the Glock haters sure know all the design problems and eagerly espouse a plethora of issues to dissuade ownership of this unworthy and dangerous pistol. My initial thought of Glock in late 80's was negative because of plastic and grip angle. Shot 3gun for 27yrs using a 1911 then Sig 226 and finished with a Glock 17. Never ever a stoppage or malfunction with Glock. The haters reasons to me can be negated with safe handling practices and using the on board computer between your ears. Gotta wonder if haters speak from actual experience with this pistol or repeating the blather of armchair gurus? Glock started a revolution that continues...
I saw a news report some years ago of a girl that was in competition with a glock. She jammed the gun into her holster during a high stress match and the trigger caught on something, maybe her shirtail, maybe the holster, who knows, and the .40 cal Glock went off. The bullet went down through her leg from top to bottom and then took out part of her foot. She had 3 operations and will be a limping cripple for the rest of her life. A handgun with a manual safety or a decocker with a heavy double action pull or a single action gun with a manual safety or simply with the hammer down and this accident would never have happened.
Now I could If I wanted to give you at least a couple of pages of incidents where Glocks went off accidentally when both civilians and cops were handling them, some of the incidents resulted in death. I just read yesterday that Sig is being sued for their striker fired M320 causing the same type of accidents because some of their models do not have a manual safety with the obvious accidents then occuring.
People are often subject to stress, prescription medication, alcohol, being in a rush and not paying attention to what they are doing etc. etc. so it's ridiculous to make such statements that the best safety is between your years. If such baloney had any validity we would also not need safety lock brakes, backup safeties on lawnmowers, child proof medicine caps, safety bars on chainsaws that works during kickback etc. etc. etic.
Safeties save lives, not just on hand guns, but on all types of machinery. People make mistakes but making unsafe machinery only adds to accidents that should have probably never happened and probably would not have happened with more safely designed machinery. Did you know that some of the first self propelled lawn mowers (my dad owned one in the 1950's) would take off down the lawn all by themselves if you let go of the handles. Now tell me that was a good idea and needed no stop safety because the best safety was between your ears.
And one last tragic accident I feel I must menton and it involved a young mother shopping. Her toddler reached into her purse while shopping and pulled out a striker fired handgun with no manual safety and it went off and he shot her dead. I could give you other similar accidents with women who had their kids with them while carrying guns but by now I think you get the picture on how dangerous these striker fired guns are that have no manual safety. I could write a full page of such tragic incidents including many with cops who handle guns everyday.
I am not new to handguns I bought my first handgun at age 15 years old back in 1965 and I have seen many accidents with all types of firearms in the last 61 years but the striker fired guns with no manual safety have had by far the most avoidable and senseless accidents.
I might also add that FN in 1905 made their .25 acp handgun with only a grip safety, it lasted only 1 year before the amount of accidents they had with it forced FN in 1906 to put an additional manual safety on it. Too bad Glock did not learn from the long ago mistakes made by FN as Glock unfortunately repeated the same mistake.
Did you know Australia banned Glocks from being imported until they put a "factory installed" manual safety on their Glocks (which they did by the way) but Glock has never offered this factory installed manual safety to the American Market.
