Are European handguns rubbish?

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Have you had a bad Glock experience?

I really like my Glock 19. It's light, easy to maintain, a pleasure to shoot- and it cost hundreds less than an H&K or SigSauer. I wanted a Walther P99, but apparently, they stopped making/selling them in the States a couple of years ago. I'm actually rather pleased that I decided to go Glock. They're so common that both factory and aftermarket parts and accessories are easy to find and relatively innexpensive. It's the gangbangers and nutters that use them that give them a bad rap.

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.