Are glocks safe?

[greg916]

Glocks are great guns. They can be as safe as you want them like any other weapon. Just get used to how it functions and comfortable with it.

Like people have mentioned before. Its the individual who needs to learn how to be safe with a particular gun.

[ROAD_DOG]

Thinking of buying a glock but alot of my friends say they're not safe because of the safety mechs, any thoughts?

I wanna buy a .45, g30?

I have a Glock 30 this video is not of the best quality but I trust glocks

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=466417973438800&set=vb.100002118041354&type=3&theater

[Some Velvet-Fisted Brute]

If you trust their self purported "safe action" then carry condition zero. Many do. If you don't trust it, then carry condition three and learn to rack as you draw. Many do. Or if you feel you need an additional external, manual safety, pick another pistol. You guessed it, many do. It's a personal choice that comes down to knowing your own stuation, habits, and tendancies.

[Wombats Are Dangerous]

what im asking is, is it as safe as other semi-auto's? I've been getting mixed reviews and just trying to find out, is this the right for me or not?

a few friends have told me stories that having a glock could be a disaster, depending how you would like to carry it. that's all.

OP, the best advice I can offer is to trust your training to make the right decision for you. I don't advise making decisions on hearsay and FUD. It's your life and limbs at stake, not their's.

A modern handgun is only as safe as it's operator's carelessness, negligence and proprensity for stupidity.

Given what we've heard from you already, it sounds like your current training involves a manual safety (Beretta M9), and your friends have already planted the seed of doubt in your head. Doubt can be the deadliest enemy in a life or death situation.

You have to know and trust your weapon and your training.

[Wombats Are Dangerous]

If you trust their self purported "safe action" then carry condition zero. Many do. If you don't trust it, then carry condition three and learn to rack as you draw. Many do. Or if you feel you need an additional external, manual safety, pick another pistol. You guessed it, many do. It's a personal choice that comes down to knowing your own stuation, habits, and tendancies.

At the risk of taking this whole thread off topic, I do agree that this is a very personal choice and again, goes back to how you train, how you view your philosophy of use and responsibility of deployment.

The IDF is taught to carry with an empty chamber, but they have the luxury of days upon days of training when they enter service.

Some of us civvies have less time to train this way, and personally, I want the least amount of muscle memory involved if I ever have to draw in a life-or-death scenario. Again, this is a very personal choice based on training and philosophy of use.

I do want to point to a YouTuber who is a gun enthusiast, concealed carrier and civilian who posted a very unscientific test of her own involving condition zero carry. I think she asks a very important question at the end of her video... "Are you ready for that?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxrpLbaEuY

I hope this helps guide some people to their own personal choices!

[johnthomas]

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In the hands of an unsafe operator, it isn't safe.

The secret service agent guarding Mrs Obama comes to mind. He got off duty and somehow managed to give himself glock leg.

[brian5271]

External safeties on a gun do not make the gun any more or less safe. What they do is help to compensate for user errors. If you never make a mistake with a gun, then a gun with no safeties will never give you a problem.
If you are a human being, then you make mistakes sometimes. In that case the added safeties may help to reduce negligent discharges.

[003]

I have always found it interesting when a new shooter (or an old hand) feels a Glock is somehow less safe than other pistols because it does not have an external safety. This has got to be a relatively new issue, because we old folks that learned on revolvers never had an issue or a problem. Correct me if I am wrong, but I cannot think of a single modern revolver that has an external safety.

The most important safety is between the ears.

If a shooter practices safe gun handling he/she will never have a problem. If they are careless or sloppy in their gun handling they will have a problem.

I have heard a number of pistol owners say that they always keep an empty chamber in their HD pistol. That to me is just silly and as far as I am concerned shows a lack of experience/understanding and poor gun handling.

How many cops, other than the ones invented by the Hollywood studies carry their pistols with and empty chamber?

[Some Velvet-Fisted Brute]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I cannot think of a single modern revolver that has an external safety.

Before the invention of the transfer bar, many revolvers had a half-cock notch and if one didn't, safe carrying involved leaving the indexed chamber empty to prevent drop-fire inicidents. Either method could be thought of as functionally similar to a glock trigger safety (since there is no additional operational step to deactivate a safety before firing the gun)

[cuinmysights]

Own 10. Also own every other major brand handguns. The only real safety is your mind and trigger finger.

[deadcoyote]

Yeah but my question was, is it less safe than other guns.

That depends on if you are less safe than other shooters.

[SoCalEnthusiast]

I'm not less safe, I'm just somewhat a new gun owner. I like the way the glock looks and also think its quite a popular gun to be had.

I just wanna make sure its safe for me. Reason for question here.

[SNCaliber]

glocks are perfectly safe, just be careful and aware of your trigger finger is all

[michaelthetrojan]

I'm not less safe, I'm just somewhat a new gun owner. I like the way the glock looks and also think its quite a popular gun to be had.

I just wanna make sure its safe for me. Reason for question here.

people who like glock's look. 0
people who dont like glock's look. everybody else.

new score.
people who like glock's look.1
people who dont like glock's look. everybody else -1
.... i think glock is beginning to catch on

[BamBam-31]

I buy Glocks because theyre dangerous, like theyre supposed to be.