If you pull the trigger with a loaded chamber, the pistol will discharge the round. If anything enters the trigger guard and you push the gun in a manner that causes the trigger to be depressed, it will cause the pistol to discharge..
Due diligence must be taken when carrying a Glock
That exactly what a gun is supposed to do. You pull the trigger, it goes bang.
When you put your finger in the trigger of a Glock and start pulling it you disengage the trigger safety. As you continue to pull the trigger it internally disengages the internal firing pin safety and the drop safety.
See the picture posted above.
I don’t want a gun that doesn’t fire when you pull the trigger with a round in the chamber.
You are missing the point brushcreek (by about 3 decades) of a striker fired Glock pistol. The reason so many police departments switched to Glocks from revolvers was that there was no manual safety to disengage just like the revolvers that they carried for a century prior to the Glock.
The Glock was a game changer, but the true genius in Glock pistols was how they marketed their pistols to law enforcement & agreed to buy their old inventories of revolvers
I’ve competed with Glocks for probably 20 years or more and seen thousands of others competing with them over the last few decades. I’ve shot enough ammo thru them to supply a small third world nation and never seen an AD with a Glock.
Want to know what I’ve seen a LOT of AD’s with?? 1911 pattern guns. No telling how many AD’s I’ve seen and as a Chief Range Officer I’ve DQ’d more than my fair share of 1911 shooters.
If you need an external safety to feel safe with a gun so be it.
Keep your booger hook off the bang switch till you are ready to fire and a Glock or any other gun will be just fine, mechanical external safety or not.
I carry Glocks and a striker fired Walther PPS M2. I won’t carry any striker fired pistol in the appendix position. It’s the re-holstering that castrates you.
Personally, I prefer a pistol with an external safety, and I also prefer a external hammer. I had a glock, but preferred an hk p30sk over it. I am so used to an external safety I would even swipe the glock. Due to what I do i have to (had, see note) unholster a couple of times per day. Booger picker is off the trigger, thumb is on the hammer. Different strokes for different folks. Whatever makes you happy.
I know of 3 appendix carry self shootings in West arkansas this year.
Sometimes when I’m driving I carry on my off side at about the 9-10 o’clock position. It gets the gun out of the seatbelt snap cluster. Other times it’s sitting in the center console. In a holster of course.
LOOK the pistol in as you re-holster it or if you are carrying with an inside the waste band holster that has a clip, pull the holster out, re-holster the pistol and then put it back inside your waist band. Carrying a pistol will always be a hassle and tedious. When is not, bad things happen.
Im not a fan of trigger safeties only either for reasons above. Yah its giving up some speed but milliseconds that I most likely will never need vs risk of AD is the way I see it. Who is to say that milliseconds is going to matter anyway. I know a cowboy action shooter that can outdraw any glock carriers I ever seen. He shoots SA wheel guns but guarantee you he will beat you cocked and locked or just cocked. Point is a lot of people worry about millisecond differences in their performance due to a safety or hammer when in reality draw speed is probably more important and the situation with the bad guy. If in you bedroom and hear a bump in the night you probably have time to even rack the slide if needed. If in a walmarts and you hear shots across the room you have time. If its a drawing contest depends on how fast the other guy is. Whatever it is you carry imo just be good with it. I would say some folks can draw rack and fire faster than some can draw and fire. Just my 2 cents..... how many carry but dont have situational awareness or speed to make a quick draw and fire regardless of weapon type? I see some that I think barney fife could get the drop on with his bullet in his pocket.
Plus, a lot is based on what is inside you. Are you going to do what needs to be done, and do it in a way that gets results.
When a unit gets in its first firefight, how many are spraying and praying, and how many are eyes open, situational awareness, and putting effective rounds down range. Training and muscle memory come into play more than one thinks.
Use what you are comfortable with. If it's a glock, go for it. 1911, same. Double/single, great. What is right for me may not be right for you. I used to carry a 1911, but have drifted to a double/single with a safety. It is what works for me.
Lord knows, I hope I do not have to pull it and use it, but if I pull it I am using it. Well, once I pulled and did not use, but not going into that.
Thanks for all the feedback. I already knew about the three internal safety mechanisms, and they were the point of my question. So what I was wanting was simply real opinions from people who own Glocks on how effective these safeties are.
I’ve had Glocks for about 25 years. I’m very comfortable carrying any of mine. No worries what’s so ever. I’m not constantly drawing it and holstering it either. I’ve taught a lot of women to shoot with a Glock, no ADs (with a Glock). Unfortunately, had a couple AD ground shots with revolvers.
Glock safeties work well. I love Glocks! HOWEVER, not having an external sfety does bring a certain level of risk. PPl that swear by things like "keep your booger hook off the bang switch" are the ones I run from. They believe their experience with guns is enough to not make a mistake. That is highly inaccurate. All humans make mistakes or miscalculations and safeties are there to help in that situation. For example, the Police Chief that safely holstered his Glock and then adjusted his jacket. The draw string had found its way into the trigger housing and fired the gun when he adjusted his jacket. An external safety would have prevented that. Numerous accidental discharges have occured in Police forces all over the country. In fact I read an interesting article about this very subject. When Agencies switch to Glocks they almost always see a significant rise in negligent/accidental discharges.
So Yes their safety systems work for mechanical failures but dont for human failures which are far more likely.
And I am about to buy my 5th Glock.
Tons of people (including some of the most experienced and knowledgeable shooters in the world) carry Glocks and other striker-fired pistols AIWB every day. Use a proper holster and know how to re-holster safely and there’s zero issues.
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