Dont thumb this guy down hes right! However id rather have someone hold a gun poorly knowing enough to not put their finger on the trigger if they aren't shooting than the alternative.
Ok, but really you can - but you better have a really damn good reason to dislike them outside of "I don't like guns that are plastic," "I don't like guns that have square slides," and "I don't like Glocks because they're Glocks and Glocks are fugly."
You have to do a lot to mis-fire a glock man, maybe jam a stick in the trigger guard. It's almost impossible unless you get a trigger job for it. Just sayin'.
You do have a point. But if you carry in condition 3 (I think that's what it is when you have safety one, no round in chamber and not cocked) then it should be Gucci. Don't be dumb with firearms and you'll be fine.
Sorry but if you negligently discharge your Glock and then use the excuse that it doesn't have a manual safety you're ******* retarded and probably shouldn't own a gun.
It's incredibly hard to discharge a Glock negligently or accidentally with all the manual safeties it has, especially with its trigger safety.
What I'm saying is that accidental discharges that could have been prevented with a safety will happen in a Glock because it doesn't have one.
And don't give me the "You're ******* retarded and shouldn't own a gun" ******** , accidents can happen, and I'm not exactly confident on a gun whose only "safety" is a trigger pull of half a ton.
5. Glocks from factory tend to have somewhere between a 5.0lb - 6.5lb trigger pull excluding installed 3.5lb connectors and NY connectors. An average of 5.0lb-6.5lb is a safe enough trigger pull weight - and realistically at that point the only time your firearm should be going off is when you are ready to fire.
If you some how negligently discharge a round with the Safe Action trigger release safety plus a 5.5 average pull weight well: repeat after me - "you're ******* retarded and shouldn't own a gun."
And you're right, negligent discharges can happen - because people are negligent. That is not a reason to throw away a platform that has proven to be safe and successful for decades now. Practice, be safe and vigilant of what you are doing and train, train, train, and train - oh and did I mention train?
I've never understood the appeal of plastic guns besides the functionality of the lighter weight. Surely, if you own and use a gun recreationally, you wouldn't care that much about weight and practicality.
Even light guns get heavy after being held up for long periods of time. I own both plastic and wood guns, and honestly I prefer wood (for aesthetics) but carrying a 9 - 10 pound gun for a couple hours gets tiring as **** fairly quickly. (My old collection pic, added to Savages to the collection in .30-06 and .556 / .223 and have a WASR-2 on the way)
Man the poor thing is beat to **** . It's probably 3-4 years old with heavy abuse. It looked pretty bad when I got it but that thing his been chugging along perfectly. (It was only $125)