Question: How are Glock 17's carried?

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armedleo

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Not familiar with Glocks. Working on an officer involved shooting. The officer carried a 9mm Glock 17. One casing was found on-scene. No projectile was ever found. When surrendering his Glock 17 it had 16 live rounds. My understanding is that the Glock 17 magazine capacity is 17.

Is the magazine typically carried at full capacity? Am I not missing another round fired?
 
I don't understand the problem.
17 round magazine capacity
16 rounds in gun
1 empty case

Not everybody "tops up" to 17 in the magazine plus one in the chamber.
I don't.
 
The mag holds 17 rounds. Some officers carry 17+1, some just load the mag and chamber a round. Honestly it is done both ways.
 
It depends on whether he chambered around, and then removed the magazine and topped it off with another round.

He may have just loaded 17 and chambered a round that would leave 16 in the magazine.
 
First off, this is a disclaimer: I'm not responsible for what you do with what I write, and I'm not an expert.

Glock 17 magazines are 17 round capacity. It is common for some to first load their magazine to full capacity, insert magazine, chamber a round, then holster firearm. 16 + 1 = 17. If one wanted full capacity they would have to remove the magazine, top it off, then re-insert. 17 + 1. Not everyone does this.

You could contact the officer's department and see what he was taught to do. In court I would take that over internet advice any day.
 
Not familiar with Glocks. Working on an officer involved shooting.
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What?
What kind of work are you doing,investigating a shooting if you are not familiar with glocks?????:confused:
Certainly not internal investigation because you would have been trained.

Are you a lawyer?
 
Could be a lawyer, could be a reporter, could be an insurance man...doesn't matter, just asked a simple question.
 
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Not familiar with Glocks. Working on an officer involved shooting.
What?
What kind of work are you doing,investigating a shooting if you are not familiar with glocks?????
Certainly not internal investigation because you would have been trained.

Are you a lawyer?
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My thoughts exactly. You obviously dont have access to the officer or the training SOP's for the agency.

Im wondering what your interest in this is
 
If he's not a lawyer.
If he's not a cop.
If he's not a reporter.

Did he spend the night at a Holiday Inn Express. :D
 
You guys just aren't lazy enough.

I also find it perfectly plausible that a person might load 15 or fewer into a mag and just not feel like breaking his thumbs trying to squeeze the last couple rounds in.
 
"Israeli carry". If the whole IDF is taught to carry a full magazine with an empty chamber, how can the practice be so unheard of? That's how I carry with all of my Glocks. Additionally, I always leave them cocked, just to see if I ever would have an accidental discharge. Not yet, in about a year of doing it this way. I don't know how long it will take before I finally decide that it's "safe" to carry with one chambered.
There have been times when I've fully loaded a mag, then fed a round into the chamber and closed the action before inserting the mag. The extractor rides over the groove just fine.
 
I have all my Glock carry mags downloaded by 1 round.

This permits the mag to be seated with the slide forward easier then if fully loaded. The amount of downward movement of the top round (called "Wink") is minimal or sometimes nonexistent when fully loaded.

I have seen ammo actually squished out of round (oval shaped) by the constant pressure of being in a fully loaded mag and that mag forced into the gun and carried that way for months.

The loss of 1 round is not tactically significant when compaired to the risk of a fresh mag not locking into the pistol during a slide forward reload.
 
i personally just load my magazine to capacity(my mag being 12) and chamber a round. asking the deptartment or even the officer himself could likely clear things up for you, i have a pistol a 15rnd capacity and seldom load it more than 14, ater chambering, would only be 13 in the mag. there is really no way to know how that officer loaded his mag without just taking his word.....unless there is evidence to suggest otherwise.

with a username "armedleo", i figured you would understand magazines:rolleyes:, sorry to be rude, just sayin
 
Not familiar with Glocks. Working on an officer involved shooting. The officer carried a 9mm Glock 17. One casing was found on-scene. No projectile was ever found. When surrendering his Glock 17 it had 16 live rounds. My understanding is that the Glock 17 magazine capacity is 17.

Is the magazine typically carried at full capacity? Am I not missing another round fired?
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Ah--a 17 +/- 1 dilemma, double tap or not? Imaginations can run with this one.
 
Interview of officer is somewhere in the future. I am trying to get the possibilities of logical (likely) explanations from the Glock experts that I figure I'd find in no better place than right here. I am not a Glock guy and know nothing about them. BTW, the department SOP and such is useless. They can carry pretty much whatever they want. The other officers around him held fire but were carrying .40 S&W, .45 ACP Springfield Armory and I think FN.
 
So 4 other officers have no idea whether or not one or two shots were fired? The plot thickens! I don't see any relevance to Glocks all the striker pistols present are the same functionally other than maybe variances in safeties. I'm starting to smell that fishy smell myself--this is sounding like a preposterous scenario.
 
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