Glockman4
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I found a 4506-1 in a local shop, in 98 percent condition. Been wanting one for a while, and there it was. So I grabbed it. This is somewhat interesting to me, I sure learned something today....here I go with my rant.
When I was looking it over at the shop, I pulled the trigger on it and the hammer dropped in both single and double action, with no magazine in the pistol.. Cool I thought, someone removed the magazine disconnect plunger and spring from the slide. I'm ok with that. I immediately went to the range and fired off a few mags just to make sure everything worked ok. All went off without a hitch. I get home to clean the gun and field strip it. Immediately I notice something odd. All of the parts are in place, including the white plastic plunger in the slide. The ejector is obviously in place as it functioned fine at the range. But the hammer and trigger work effortlessly with no magazine inserted. This is odd, and I can't figure out how this is possible. I figure that maybe the gun just needs a good internal cleaning to loosen everything up. After cleaning, and with the slide still stripped off of the frame, I push down the ejector and the pull the trigger. Still a perfectly functioning trigger. Now I know something has been modified. The trigger should obviously be dead with the ejector lever pushed down.
Now I have to strip the whole frame because I can't figure out for the life of me what is going on. The gun is in like new condition. Functioned flawlessly, decocking lever works fine, etc. I remove the side plate and dump all the parts out of the frame. All the levers and springs are in place. Sear and hammer notches look perfect. Then I pulled the disconnector out, and there it is. Some Bubba that had the gun before me took a Dremel to one of the triangular ears on the disconnector, and ground it off. Now it makes sense. The ejector lever wasn't grabbing the disconnector to bring it out of the way, it was simply slipping past it. So since the shade tree gunsmith couldn't push the rear sight off and remove the plunger and spring in the factory approved manner, he took to grinding down trigger parts. Unreal. I had a spare plastic TSW disconnector to replace it with. The one in this particular 4506 was metal. All put back together and working fine now. Maybe this wasn't a safety issue but I surely wasn't going to keep it in there. Luckily that's the only thing he messed with.
Below, the gun, and the Bubba'd- up disconnector. I really wish people wouldn't do dumb stuff like this but it was a cheap fix thankfully and not a hard lesson on a used gun of unknown origin.
When I was looking it over at the shop, I pulled the trigger on it and the hammer dropped in both single and double action, with no magazine in the pistol.. Cool I thought, someone removed the magazine disconnect plunger and spring from the slide. I'm ok with that. I immediately went to the range and fired off a few mags just to make sure everything worked ok. All went off without a hitch. I get home to clean the gun and field strip it. Immediately I notice something odd. All of the parts are in place, including the white plastic plunger in the slide. The ejector is obviously in place as it functioned fine at the range. But the hammer and trigger work effortlessly with no magazine inserted. This is odd, and I can't figure out how this is possible. I figure that maybe the gun just needs a good internal cleaning to loosen everything up. After cleaning, and with the slide still stripped off of the frame, I push down the ejector and the pull the trigger. Still a perfectly functioning trigger. Now I know something has been modified. The trigger should obviously be dead with the ejector lever pushed down.
Now I have to strip the whole frame because I can't figure out for the life of me what is going on. The gun is in like new condition. Functioned flawlessly, decocking lever works fine, etc. I remove the side plate and dump all the parts out of the frame. All the levers and springs are in place. Sear and hammer notches look perfect. Then I pulled the disconnector out, and there it is. Some Bubba that had the gun before me took a Dremel to one of the triangular ears on the disconnector, and ground it off. Now it makes sense. The ejector lever wasn't grabbing the disconnector to bring it out of the way, it was simply slipping past it. So since the shade tree gunsmith couldn't push the rear sight off and remove the plunger and spring in the factory approved manner, he took to grinding down trigger parts. Unreal. I had a spare plastic TSW disconnector to replace it with. The one in this particular 4506 was metal. All put back together and working fine now. Maybe this wasn't a safety issue but I surely wasn't going to keep it in there. Luckily that's the only thing he messed with.
Below, the gun, and the Bubba'd- up disconnector. I really wish people wouldn't do dumb stuff like this but it was a cheap fix thankfully and not a hard lesson on a used gun of unknown origin.
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