Glock failure....

Eh, if you look on google for about 30 seconds you can find examples of most guns going kaboom.



err sorry I mean... yeah glocks explode all the time....... so sell them to me and RevolverRodger.:D
 
I'd hate to think what one of my 10mm handloads would do if it went. Judging from the .45 I bet I'd be digging shrapnel outta my face and looking for my trigger finger.
 
Bullet setback?

The way it sounded was that the cop found it that way.

Looks pretty mild compared to the FN57 explosion a while back.
 
looks very similar to the gun which exploded at our gun club a few weeks ago.
Same mod. Glock 21, and the shooter was using his own handloads...
 
Must be a small town. I can't imagine attention anything like that being paid to such an incident on our news. They actually seemed interested in this story.
 
Highly unlikely that police used handloaded ammo. Even in recession. But is seems it was an ammo failure not a glock failure.
 
Rudi said:
Highly unlikely that police used handloaded ammo. Even in recession. But is seems it was an ammo failure not a glock failure.
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It is quite common in the US for small departments to use reloads for practice. Many of them tend to go through much more ammo than up here.
 
v65magnafan said:
Maybe he didn't hear the "pffft" on the trigger pull before.
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Have seen several guns/barrels destroyed by firing after a squib put a bullet in the barrel, all due to careless reloading.

Several .45s (all 1911s) and two Browning high power (same shooter same gun!).

The .45s blew the magazine and remaining rounds out the bottom of the gun splitting the grips. Where a double charge was involved the unsupported part of the case blew, destroying the magazine and grips but the barrel/gun was not.
Injuries to the shooter were mostly stinging of the hand and perhaps a few splinters.

With the Browning high power ans its' supported chamber the barrel was destroyed (twice, separate incidents) splitting lengthwise but otherwise no damage to the gun or the shooter. Each time the cause was a squib putting a bullet in the barrel and the shooter racking the slide as if to clear a malfunction then firing again before the RO could stop him.

The one suib I experienced was due to a round without powder and it did put the bullet (200gr swc .45) up the barrel, happened during a match but I heard the 'Pfffft' and knew instantly what had occurred.

In hindsight there is a lot to be said for using a pistol with a steel frame. A polymer frame gun might have much different results. Hands/face full of plastic schrapnel is not my idea of fun.

That said, careful reloading eliminates any such problems.
 
y2k said:
Is thier any know defects with Glock 2nd generation?????
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Aren't you familiar with the term "Glock perfection"? :p

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NAA.
 
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