Nice Weapon

Ugh, I own a Glopp 19 and never shoot it.

Snappy recoil and goes off like a Howitzer.

Prefer my Series 70 Gubbmint Model.

"Shoot what you like, and like what you shoot."

Looks like a cap gun I had as a kid. X

I had a 19 for awhile then got rid of it, not real reliable in my opinion despite al the magazines stating otherwise. Most people that I know that own them love them though so to each their own. but for my money if youre going 9mm I'd go with a Browning High Power or a Barreta 92FS I love mine.

The Browning Hi-Power is an outstanding gun, but twice the price.

The Beretta I carried for years (as an MP) and I've, literally, shot thousands of rounds through that gun.

I am finding the Glock to my liking.

I dig my Steyr M40.........very "glock-like", but with some extra cool ****.

Re: 26.

there is a video on floating around that shows how unsafe the fobus is pertaining to weapon retention. After i saw this video in updates, I quickly traded my fobus for a blackhawk!!

#64 "I had a 19 for awhile then got rid of it, not real reliable in my opinion"

care to enlighten us on your experiences?

"most gun accidents have been caused by Glocks"

Just to be clear, gun accidents are caused by people. The fact that more people accidentally discharge Glocks than other brands or types of firearms has to do with a lack of training and familiarity with the weapon. IMHO, if you haven't put at least 2500 rounds through a particular weapon, you should not carry it in a situation in which you might be called upon to due deadly force. I'm not talking about folks to do target practice for recreation, I'm talking about cops or those who carry a firearm for defense of their own life or the lives of others.

Believe me, you will ALWAYS respond as you've trained, if you have not trained, you will not respond, or will respond improperly. In the old days, we used to find dead cops with 6 rounds of empty brass in their pockets, because we used to train them to dump their brass (from their revolver) into their hands and put it in their pockets - to keep the range clean. Guess what? In the middle of a firefight when they had to reload, they emptied their brass into their hand, and put it into their pockets. No kidding.

I would NOT recommend that a person switch between a Glock and other weapons, particularly for CCW carry. Pick one type of weapon, train with it, become proficient with it, and stick with it. You should be able to field strip it in the dark (or inside a pillow case, which a good way to practice this skill). You should be able to dry fire with a round balanced on top of the weapon's slide and not make that round fall off after you've completed the trigger pull.

As for the trigger pull issue - I was part of a committee that selected and approved duty and off-duty weapons for my department. We weight tested the initial trigger pull on a variety of Glocks and found them to be as light as 2.5 pounds, right out of the box. That made them unacceptable for our purposes. Initial trigger pull had to be double action, and have at least 12 pounds of pull. That was a number of years ago, so I can't speak to this generation of Glocks. They may have changed since those tests were conducted, which was in the late '80's. -B

"gun accidents are caused by people"

right........people with guns.

Mine's a 20.