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Catfight wrote:Yeah, I actually went and confirmed this last night with an empty casing. Maybe I have common sense or something but I always unload my gun before field stripping it.

I trusted the poster to know what he was talking about and I did the same test. I now have a hole in my wall.

GrillKing wrote:Glocks are inherently dangerous. You should immediately bring all Glocks to me for safety reasons.

Grillking is correct. Glocks are extremely dangerous. He is handling the south Texas collections and I will be handling the North Texas collections.

fickman wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

RECIT wrote:Snip..... So glock w. the proper holster is a great carry weapon in my opinion.

Police agencies all across the nation are in agreement with you.

So you drive a Ford Crown Victoria?

Nope........and not really a fair analogy. But funny...none the less.. I do however drive nothing but Fords.

RECIT wrote:Snip..... So glock w. the proper holster is a great carry weapon in my opinion.

Police agencies all across the nation are in agreement with you.

I understand how folks think of the Glock as a single action. You don't have a visible hammer that moves back as you squeeze the trigger. It also takes allot less effort to squeeze a shot off with a Glock than you need for a typical double action. This causes folks to visualize all kinds of crazy stuff firing the gun such as ghosts, belly button lint, loose threads, keys....etc. Yep....you pull the trigger and she will fire. If it makes you uncomfortable, you should go with some other design. Keeping an empty chamber is going to get you killed...IMHO. If you have time to pull the weapon and rack a round into it without getting shot, you have time to run away instead....again....just MHO.

Rockrz wrote:mmmm, the plot thickens...some of the guys in the posts above were saying it does have a safety.

But, as some always say, the best safety is between one's ears, so I'd have to really
study all the downsides of owning a Glock before making the decision to get one.

Thanks for the tips.

If your talking safety in the classic sense, blocks trigger from being pulled when engaged, I think 1911 style pistol is the only one. Double action revolvers don't have a safety like this either. The safety is to keep your booger picker off the trigger until ready to fire.

the safeties the guys above are referring to are drop safeties. You know, drop the pistol and it won't fire. Glock does have a "safety" on the trigger....LOL. It is basicly a lever in the middle of the trigger that has to be depressed to allow the trigger to pull back. It seems silly to me but I guess it makes the nervous nellies feel good.

Rockrz wrote:Great, thanks for the feed back. I've been reading up on Glocks
and all I'm seeing so far is good comments from guys using these
and everybody seems to be saying these are very reliable.

So, maybe I'll get one of these in addition to a revolver.
May as well have both...

Does your revolver have a safety?