Travis Bickle
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Bah! Plastic s**t...
My glock blew up
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Jericho this is really kinda sad. You always try to avoid the issue and try to make it about me. It is not. The issue is that the OP presumably had his Glock fail because of a well-known problem described adequately above. I agree that Glock has tried to address this well-known problem with the redesign of the Gen three and four guns. However, LEE is apparently unconvinced. If they were convinced, their warning would be "Glock Cases from gen 1 and 2 guns".
BTW since you seem a bit thick, I hope you recognized that Gatehouse was kidding when he said "no bulged cases that I've seen", then posted a picture of three dangerously-bulged cases from his Glock 21 (LINK). Instead of surfing CGN trying to find people to put down, you should get a life.
Actually I'd read that the Glock originally came to be as a design exercise to test the limits of just how cheaply a handgun could be made.
Gaston Glock had the brainstorm of making it out of plastic and cheap stampings, leaving off all important functional parts that he could and spending the money saved on marketing and lawyers. BTW he ripped off Ivers Johnson who had the silly little trigger "dipsy doo" and the hamerless design about 80 years earlier.
Due to it's dangerous trigger design, I recently had an accidental discharge that blew up my Glock while reholstering. It was loaded with my handloads of mixed range pickup brass and lead bullets. Luckily my Serpa holster wasn't damaged when the Glock exploded.
OldFrankHog
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LOL, after dropping it muzzle down in mud no doubt 
Jericho this is really kinda sad. You always try to avoid the issue and try to make it about me. It is not. The issue is that the OP presumably had his Glock fail because of a well-known problem described adequately above. I agree that Glock has tried to address this well-known problem with the redesign of the Gen three and four guns. However, LEE is apparently unconvinced. If they were convinced, their warning would be "Glock Cases from gen 1 and 2 guns".
BTW since you seem a bit thick, I hope you recognized that Gatehouse was kidding when he said "no bulged cases that I've seen", then posted a picture of three dangerously-bulged cases from his Glock 21 (LINK). Instead of surfing CGN trying to find people to put down, you should get a life.
Um, nope. Those aren't pics from gatehouse. He was being serious. See here . http://www.thegunzone.com/glock/case-bulges.html
That's a negligent discharge, not an accident. Put your finger on the trigger, or have loose stuff that can get into your trigger guard while holstering? That's negligence.
Guns typically don't go off by themselves unless you bubba them or don't take care of them.
Brutus
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These things were made to fill someone's pockets with cash and sell cheap enuf at ridiculous numbers that would keep the LAPD/NYPD/FBI accountants smiling.
What can you expect from a synthetic platform, to keep a police officer's utility belt a tad bit lighter in weight and easier for non-gun people mystified by such strange & wonderous things as a slide/grip safety?
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What can you expect from a synthetic platform, to keep a police officer's utility belt a tad bit lighter in weight and easier for non-gun people mystified by such strange & wonderous things as a slide/grip safety?
my 2 bits only
I think that this is what you are talking about (Click on LINK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-Qdx6vky0
The problem is that Glocks frequently discharge when the trigger thingy is contacted by debris that falls into the holster or even contacts the pull tab on your fleece jacket, or a protrusion in the holster.
Glock guys love to blame other Glock owners when this happens (and, I suppose, also eat their young). They call these events Negligent Discharges (an ND). However with Glocks, the line is blurred between an ND and an Accidental discharge ("AD"), in the sense that doing the same thing with a safer gun (like and H&K USP which is a better gun than a Glock in ALL respects) would not result in the discharge.
People buy Glocks because they don't trust themselves to have the presence of mind to click off their safety, in a stressed situation. They won't admit it but that is really it. For this reason, not-very-bright people gravitate to the Glock brand. The gun also appeals to first-time buyers, who tend to have lots of bravado and not too much experience. I was recently swept at my range by a Glock-owning kid, who was showing the gun to some young female (maybe a girlfriend). I told the kid to keep his muzzle in a safe direction and he said something like "what's your problem, the gun isn't loaded" - and then showed me that there wasn't a mag in the well. The action was closed at this time. That's great, kid.
We had two ND/ ADs at my former range. Both involved Glocks. In one case, a female cop blew a nice hole through a male cop's foot. In the other case, a "Master Trainer" - whatever that is - pretty well blew his whole lower right leg apart while holstering - as he was in the midst of giving a firearms training course to a bunch of "special students" read: "Gov't/ diplomatic people who don't want to be identified".
I have personally witnessed case where, as I was entering the pistol range at another club, I saw where two guys were forward setting-up targets and a girlfriend of one of them was handling a Glock at the firing line. And a second after I took in this scene I heard the thing go "click"!
Just for fun, do a key word search on the web for term "Glock leg". Do the same for any other firearm - "1911 Leg", "Sig Leg", etc. Do you get this? By all indications, Glock owners must be shooting themselves about 5-10 times more frequently than other gun owners - even taking into account the relative number of guns out there.
There should have been many class actions against Glock by now - firstly because of the fact that the things KB if your reload for them and win the Glock Kaboom lottery. Instead guys like the OP are okay with the possibility that Glock may eventually replace the frame of his destroyed G21, and you other guys delight in the chance to blame that situation on that fellow Glock Owner. Second, there also should have been many more class actions against Glock for the fact that the cheap design of the gun lends itself to Glock leg-type events. There have been some, but the reason that there haven't been more is because Glock owners love to blame other Glock owners - and besides, most really aren't that bright, IMO.
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I guess that's the best you can come up with when faced with the facts. Its not about me guys, its about this (LINK)
He could be, there was a guy at the nationals last summer that had the pin work out of the trigger on his glock, he loaded and made ready and when holstering had an AD, it went thru his pocket and instead of going thru his leg it hit his I phone and came back out and into the ground.
Jericho this is really kinda sad. You always try to avoid the issue and try to make it about me. It is not. The issue is that the OP presumably had his Glock fail because of a well-known problem described adequately above. I agree that Glock has tried to address this well-known problem with the redesign of the Gen three and four guns. However, LEE is apparently unconvinced. If they were convinced, their warning would be "Glock Cases from gen 1 and 2 guns".
BTW since you seem a bit thick, I hope you recognized that Gatehouse was kidding when he said "no bulged cases that I've seen", then posted a picture of three dangerously-bulged cases from his Glock 21 (LINK). Instead of surfing CGN trying to find people to put down, you should get a life.
Not my pics. No bulges in my cases
Uh no just not worth my time for closed the minded.....you can argue one way or the other until your blue in the face. I was wowing because it's pretty basic what happened here and can't believe it's gone on this long....the op messed up his reload. Done. But thanks for assuming though and you know what we say about assuming......
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Like I said, Glock guys love to blame other Glock guys. Do a key word search on "Glock leg" and you'll see that in-play over and over again. How do you figure that Glock attracts so many incompetent owners? What does that say about you, the Glock owner?
Oh course I'm serious! When something blows up inches from your manly bits - a guy's gotta know if his holster is okay. Serpas are that good.
This is awesome.
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