Um....Personality???
"Personality"....is that another word for "unreliable"? I mean, you take the tool out of the box, and it performs flawlessly, reliably, accurately and does everything that you need it to do, then it is so "robotic" that it "has no personality"?
If it came out of the box with some flaws, and needed some new parts and some work to get it running, then you could call it "customized" and then it would have "personality"?
I dunno, you asked what we see in Glocks, and I guess it is its lack of "personality". There are no doodads, gizmos, gadgets, levers, and no surprises. It just does what it is supposed to do, every time. In my lifesaving tools, I prefer that unexciting lack of personality.
My Glock is like a Pit Bull...all a$$holes and elbows. I don't carry it because it has personality, I carry it to stand between me and death. For that job, it is the best.
My wife has personality; my gun is just a tool.
My Glock hits where I point it with utter accuracy, it is %100 reliable, and it is an outstanding carry gun. All business. I compare my Glock's personality to a Jeep, or a good daily "heavy user" knife, or a pair of Danner combat boots. It is just a tool that gets used hard, and
the personality is in the performance.
It does the job, just right, all the time.
To those that like guns with more pretty colors on them and a "history" behind them and such so that it gives them warm fuzzies when they hold it, I respect that and it is their business. But, I don't carry a gun as a toy, or as something to gawk at, I carry it purely to defend my life, and my Glock has done so on numerous occasions.
(Although, I do dry fire my Glock a lot, so I guess that is kind of like fondling
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[Edited by jdthaddeus on 01-04-2001 at 03:42 AM]