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Old 08-02-2011, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic View Post
I think his response may be due to several instances where either poor training on/understanding of the Glock safety mechanism resulted in unauthorized discharges by people who should have known better or (the more likely of the two I think), where several Glock pistols have been found to be poorly manufactured and resulted in pistols blowing themselves apart in the users hand.
I don't recall if the destructing pistols were ones manufactured in Austria or at the Smyrna, Georgia factory in the US.
IIRC, most of the Glock kaboom incidents were in the .40 S&W and .357 SIG models, which combine a higher-pressure cartridge with a partially-unsupported casing. A lot of them were a convergence of factors... including excessive powder charges in reloaded casings.

(ObT2k: This is one hazard of reusing brass multiple times.)

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Originally Posted by Panther Al View Post
As to the list, yeash. How did I forget CZ. There is a company that never gets the props it is due.
+1. IMO, if you don't want to carry plastic, the CZ 75 is one of the best values on the market today.

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glocks are by design(double action with no manual safety) unsafe to carry loaded
Yeah, I know. Hard to believe anyone survived carrying revolvers all those years...

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