What makes glocks so reliable

Bottom line: Mr. Gaston Glock got it right, and has the track record, sales, and reputation to prove it. Though they may be ugly to me anyways you must keep in mind that they are a tool. Just like a drill, saw, or hammer is a tool, your firearm is a tool to protect yourself and those around you. Police and Glocks are nearly as ubiquitous as Police and Donuts.

Law enforcement draws their weapons probably infinitely times more than you ever will, and the reasons they draw a Glock are no different than the reasons that make you or I want to buy them off the shelf. I mean endless. From rednecks trying to blow them up with Tannerite, full auto meltdowns, or legitimate mud, run, and gun tests- Glocks are put through the ringer constantly for the public eye. Yes, yes they are. All of this adds up to a pistol that is easy to become proficient with in less time with less rounds fired.

No matter what other perks a different pistol might have this is certainly one that should be given significant consideration. It is here that Glock is undeniably dominant. From the sapling of its modest initial offerings to the tall oak of the current day catalog, Glock pistols have grown into a veritable first family of polymer pistols, with models to suit any requirement and caliber preference, from backup and deep-cover carry pistols to fullsize optic-ready duty and competition models.

These parts range from mild usability and service life enhancements to borderline lunatic custom slides, barrels, comps and more. When you pistol has transcended into exemplifying an entire classification of handgun, you know you have made it. Even for the more reserved and mundane users, be they police or civilian, the commonality and popularity of Glocks pays dividends when boarding the logistics train: you can get Glock parts, service and expertise literally anywhere.

Servicing the Glock pistol is so simple that it can hardly be called true armorer-level work. For those who desire being more self-reliant and taking care of their own guns, learning to do so is much simpler for Glocks than any other pistol today or from yesteryear.

Glocks are the most ubiquitous and common handguns on earth and with good reason. Charles Yor is an advocate of low-profile preparation, readiness as a virtue and avoiding trouble before it starts. He has enjoyed a long career in personal security implementation throughout the lower 48 of the United States. Your email address will not be published. Theres the main trigger and then theres what looks like a little baby trigger. The gun doesnt work unless you depress them both. That was marketed as an innovation, but it was also a reason that the gun design has been heavily criticized by gun-control advocatesbecause it is true that there is no way to put it on safety.

The gun is always on. And the Glock has a radically smaller number of component parts36 or 38than comparable handguns by other manufacturers, which typically have twice as many parts. And this is significant because if there are fewer parts, there are fewer parts to break. Moreover, the Glock parts are entirely interchangeable. So if youve got a bunch of Glock 17s or a bunch of Glock 19s you can shuffle all the parts around and put them into any gun, which makes them very appealing to police departments that have hundreds or thousands of weapons.

Efforts to restrict the Glock by name were hugely important. For example, when the gun first showed up in the United States, gun-control advocates said this gun is extremely and uniquely dangerous because its made mostly out of plastic so airport security machines wont detect it. There was a huge controversy over this. There were congressional hearings in 86 and 87, and some jurisdictions, such as New York City, banned the Glock.

But this allegation was just factually incorrect. Airport security machines did detect the Glock because theyre mostly X-ray machines, and X-rays see plastic just the way they see metal. Moreover, by weight, the Glock is actually mostly metal anyway.

The slide is made out of steel, so if you do have a magnetometer, it should detect that slide. And if someone is staring at it and knows what theyre looking for, they should be able to see it.

This was a huge embarrassment for gun-control forces and a huge boon for Glock. There is no better way in the United States to get attention for a gun than to suggest its extremely potent and effective. There is no doubt that the Glock appeals to criminals in the same way that it appeals to civilians. But as a statistical matter, it never became as prevalent in terms of being found at crime scenes as Hollywood or television police procedurals might suggest.

And theres a simple reason for that. The Glock, while its not a super-expensive gun, is also not a cheap gun. Its not a Saturday night special. And while there are certainly Glocks on the black market, and there certainly are criminals who use them, it has never become quite as prevalent as really cheap knockoff guns, or even as prevalent as.

This was the first time, as far as I could determine, that the Glock showed up on the big screen: A clever Hollywood prop guy put the gun into the second Die Hard movie. And the screenplay writer actually wrote a little soliloquy that Bruce Willis gave in which he named the Glock.

And Willis, whos playing this hard-bitten, Los Angeles police detective, "That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me.