Now this *really* chaps my butt.
Recently my department transitioned from the Sig P220 to the Glock 21. This change was made due to that fact that Glock made us an offer of trading our Sigs for Glocks at no cost to us.
We've come to realize that the G21 should have a new title "jammamatic". When we made the transition we encountered numerous (read that as a lot) jams during training. We attributed this to shooter unfamiliarity and "new gun" syndrome. However, as the months wore on the faliures continued to mount, not decrease.
We finally narrowed it down to the magazine being the source of the trouble. We then contacted Glock and guess what the response was? " Yes we know, there's a design defect in the G21 magazine." Oh really !
Can you see why I'm chapped? Glock knowingly supplied us with guns that they knew were defective and never said a damned thing about it. In fact, they didn't say anything until we threw it in their face. As a consequence we now have hundreds of people out on the road carrying sidearms that they can't depend on. Glock obviously doesn't care. They've now sent us new prototype mags for evaluation which are supposed to work (we'll see). Of course they never mentioned the new mags until we found the problem. Then it was "uh, yeah".
Now all of you Glock fans don't take this as a condemnation of the Glock pistol in its entirety. I believe that the basic design is a sound one and the problem seems indicative of the G21.
Be that as it may, I doubt if my agency will ever give Glock another contract. I for one will never spend my money on anything associated with Glock. They've put my peoples lives at risk and they can burn in hell for it.
Recently my department transitioned from the Sig P220 to the Glock 21. This change was made due to that fact that Glock made us an offer of trading our Sigs for Glocks at no cost to us.
We've come to realize that the G21 should have a new title "jammamatic". When we made the transition we encountered numerous (read that as a lot) jams during training. We attributed this to shooter unfamiliarity and "new gun" syndrome. However, as the months wore on the faliures continued to mount, not decrease.
We finally narrowed it down to the magazine being the source of the trouble. We then contacted Glock and guess what the response was? " Yes we know, there's a design defect in the G21 magazine." Oh really !
Can you see why I'm chapped? Glock knowingly supplied us with guns that they knew were defective and never said a damned thing about it. In fact, they didn't say anything until we threw it in their face. As a consequence we now have hundreds of people out on the road carrying sidearms that they can't depend on. Glock obviously doesn't care. They've now sent us new prototype mags for evaluation which are supposed to work (we'll see). Of course they never mentioned the new mags until we found the problem. Then it was "uh, yeah".
Now all of you Glock fans don't take this as a condemnation of the Glock pistol in its entirety. I believe that the basic design is a sound one and the problem seems indicative of the G21.
Be that as it may, I doubt if my agency will ever give Glock another contract. I for one will never spend my money on anything associated with Glock. They've put my peoples lives at risk and they can burn in hell for it.