I've been tring to cause an A.D. with my Glock

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notbubba

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USING A SNAP CAP!!

I've read alot of stories about accidental or negligent discharges of Glocks.
I've heard people say that Glocks are an accident waiting to happen.

I wanted to see how easy it is to cause an AD or ND (which ever you want to call it) with a Glock.

I loaded my G26 with a snap cap and I've been doing the regular stuff and the stupid stuff that caused AD's in the stories.
I've been holstering and unholstering,shoving it into a pocket,twirling,and smacking my hand with a finger on the trigger(not all at the same time).

NO AD.

This makes me feel better about using it for CCW
 
For a Glock AD to take place, you have to squeeze the trigger while pointing it at either a television or an innocent person. :rolleyes:
 
Just a guess, but I think a lot of ADs come about because the guy's finger is on the trigger. You can put quite a bit of pressure on a Glock trigger before it goes off, but if you aren't paying attention the last little bit comes as a surprise.:D
 
dont get to compfortable with your experiment.ad can and will happen when your head is up your ass.it can happen.
 
Keep practising for a mistake and the mistake will happen when your not practising.

Murphy's law ( a smart man was old Murphy );)

Oink
 
Easy to make a Glock AD!

1- send it to the Dallas police, they seem to have a talent for it
2-"accidently" pull the trigger....with your finger
BT
 
Hmmm.. Try a 3.5 pound connector and spinning the gun with your finger in the trigger guard (ala. Sisco Kid). You might get it to go off.

Better thought is to ditch the snap cap for this experiment and load up a double charged 180 grain bullet that has been pounded into the case with a sledgehammer. Then you can come back and tell everyone how Glocks have AD's AND blowup, (well you MIGHT be able to come back and tell everybody how Glocks AD and blowup).
 
If the trigger gets pulled on a Glock it is gonna go boom if there is a round in the tube, just as sure as God made little green apples. Keeping the finder on the trigger of a Glock while reholstering is an excellent way to make it go boom and shoot yourself in the leg in the process. If you carry any Glock with a loaded chamber make sure that you ALWAYS carry it in a holster that completely covers the trigger guard. Keep that finger off of that finger until you sights are on the target. Never left your muzzle point at anything that you DO NOT want to destroy. If you follow this last one, you may end up embarassed as hell ,but you will never kill anyone, or shoot up your TV set. Be safe out there...

7th
 
You forgot to put on a police uniform!
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I teach my students to place their thumb over the rear of the slide as they holster the weapon, not before, but as they place the weapon in the holster, it stops the slide being forced "out of battery" by a tight holster but also unbalance's the firearm forcing the user to take their finger of the trigger as they holster.

I don't claim that this a new idea, but I think that it works on new students as they are learning.

If you haven't tried it, do so, it does work.

Stops N/D or A/D or whatever you call them over there. And stops the "short leg" and "limp" problem.

Not trying to teach you fella's how to suck egg's, just a helpful comment..........I hope.

Oink.:)
 
Can someone please explain to me the rationale behind putting a safety on the trigger? Barring malfunction, the only way a gun is going to go off is if you pull the trigger. So you put a safety on the gun to prevent the trigger being inadvertently pulled.

But Glock puts the safety on the trigger itself, so if you accidentally pull the trigger, you simultaneously accidentally disengage the safety. It's happened before (in fact, someone at a local range got shot with a Glock that way). So could someone please explain to me the reasoning behind this configuration?
 
Not Glock lover, but not a Glock hater either. The reason I believe they put the safety on the trigger was because it was designed as a military firearm. One that needs to be ready for action immediately, and with as little thinking as possible. Will everyone forget to take the safety off their 1911 in a dangerous situation? No. Will some? Yes. Will everyone forget to protect the trigger on a Glock? no. Will someone? yes.

It makes shooting the gun a brainless process, which for an army with a wide range of intelligence levels, is probably a good idea.

Not the word of the Glock manufacturers, but my own thoughts.

-Morgan
 
That makes sense. In essence, what you're saying is that they're trying to at get the simplicity of a no-safety DA/SA (which I am fond of and carry, personally) with the fairly light trigger pull of a "sort-of" SA (the Glock's trigger pull kind of defies description).

I'm still not entirely sure that it really acomplishes all that much. I mean maybe if you get into a strange situation where you accidentally hook just the trigger but not the safety, it can prevent an AD. But as I mentioned before, it seems to me that any typical mistake that would normally cause an AD will also by its very nature disengage the Glock safety.
 
I'm pretty sure if I holster any of my Sigs with my finger on the trigger they will go bang as well . Don't think I would blame the gun though, if I was dumb enough to do such a thing.
Dave
 
I will not claim Glocks are "the ultimate handgun" because there are different flavors of "ultimate". :D

"Safeties" exist to prevent accidental weapon discharges. By definition, if you pull the trigger, it's not an accident.
 
Clean it. That always seems to cause AD's according to the police in the papers!

Actually, that isn't called cleaning, It is called dicking around and that causes most AD's. The second cause is stress. Sense you are writing here, I hope you don't do much dicking around with what you believe to be an unloaded gun. Your test is how most AD's arre caused. Gun Owner believes gun is unloaded, dicks around, finds out it was loaded, then buys a new TV, if following the other safety rules.

Stress AD's can be trained out IMHO.
 
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