Any one had this happen at an LGS?

No but I always laugh in my head when people ask me "is that a Glock?" when I'm in line at the gas station or Target or something.

Guess the steel frame, screw on grip panels and hammer go unnoticed. Lol

I just smile and say "nope, CZ75."

You offended the Holy Church of Glock by acknowledging the existence of other handguns.

Luckily for us who don't follow Gaston Glocks teachings, life as a handgun heretic can be pretty fun while it lasts...

Yes, I tell them to mind their own business and to go away. If they're large I ask them not to block my sunlight. I need my vitamin D.

I usually blow people's minds when I'm at a match with my M&P. If they suggest a Glock I let them know that there's one sitting in my range bag over there and I'm shooting a non-Glock by choice .

I have several Glocks. But they were subcontracted to Ruger, Walther, Springfield etc.

I guess just saying "thank you" is nicer than saying, "no, I didn't realize there was an option to pay extra for something I didn't want in the first place."

It's worse when the clerk does that to you, though.

Could be that those other folks were just being friendly and thought you might be interested in knowing that Glocks were on sale.

I recently seriously considered buying a CZ 720 shotgun, but I couldn't get one person on the CZ shotgun forum to offer an opinion about the 720's trigger pull. One of the reviews said it was one of the worst triggers, pulling at around 9.5#, that he'd ever tried on a shotgun.

Just bought a Dan Wesson Pointman,and nobody said that!The salesmen were even loving the gun!

Nothing against Glocks. They are fine guns and as reliable as anything ever made. There is probably no line of guns that are more dependable than Glock.

With that said...I despise Glock fanboys(and girls). You would think I had insulted their religion when I happen to mention that I want something else. I always like to compare them to Hi Point which really gets the fanboys up in arms. Big, ugly and dependable. Hi Point.

I recently seriously considered buying a CZ 720 shotgun, but I couldn't get one person on the CZ shotgun forum to offer an opinion about the 720's trigger pull. One of the reviews said it was one of the worst triggers, pulling at around 9.5#, that he'd ever tried on a shotgun.

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No opinion on the 720, but I did own the 712 once - absolutely terrible gun. Had a tun of cycling issues with mine. That said, these guns aren't actually made by CZ - they're made by Hulgu and rebranded. The CZ pistols I've owned and shot have all worked fine.

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Being an older guy I've noticed more and more young guys at the LGS or gun shows who feel like they should offer their "expert" advice to an old fudd. A while back I was looking at a Colt LE6920 AR and a kid said "Get a Bushmaster, they're just as good..." I said no thanks, I build my own.

And a few years ago I was buying a Hi-Power when a guy said get an M&P instead. I said no thanks, I already have a Glock!

Many years ago, I was working at a pretty nice cutlery store while attending school. I loved it when a customer came in and knew what they wanted. If they didn't know what they wanted, had a list of questions to run through to determine what to recommend. Price was usually the biggest factor. I've seen sales folks at LGS's push certain brands over others, but, most usually follow some form of questioning like I did thirty years ago.

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I LOVE Penny Arcade . That has got to be some of their older work though. Gabe/Mike is a lot better artist than that these days.

There is no doubt that Glock makes great guns... There is also no doubt that their PR and advertising are even better. I have met folks who chose Glock as their first gun simply because, "That's what my local PD uses so it must be good!"


I would trust my life to a Glock but no more so than my Rugers, Smiths, Berettas, or Springfields. I always have to bite my tongue in the "Glocks are the only guns to buy" conversations since, while they are reliable, they just don't do it for me so I have never acquired one.

Once, at a brand new LGS, I asked if they had mags for my XD.

The salesman said, "You should get a Glock."

"Oh?" I replied, "Will that fit in my XD?"

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I always like to compare them to Hi Point which really gets the fanboys up in arms. Big, ugly and dependable. Hi Point.

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I am so going to do this next time.

My wife recently bought me a Colt and she said one of the guys at the counter asked her if I ever considered a Glock. She said "Yes, he has 4 of them, that is why I'm buying a Colt.'' Guess she answered that question. I'm just glad he didn't ask how many 1911s I have.

I'm confused. After they showed you the Glocks, why did you buy the CZ?

Kidding, kidding. I showed my realtor my XDm and said "this is my springfield xdm" and he goes "is that a Glock?"

At my LGS they actually try to discourage buying Glocks... just a little. They sell a lot of S&W M&P's and have found them to be reliable handguns, so why not sell the American made one? Also, IIRC, Glock had a contract to sell handguns to Iran. One of the employees there has an issue with that.

They are selling just about every Glock 42 they can get though.

GLOCK: Butt-ugly plastic shooting appliance with the ergonomics of a caulking gun. Five-pound trigger with no external safety makes it ill suited for its target market (cops who shoot a hundred rounds a year for qualification). Favored by gang-bangers because the product name is short and rhymes with other short, rap-friendly words.

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I just don't think it's sporting anymore to poke fun at all the Glock fans, seemingly everywhere, who persist in telling us that we all need a Glock ... ever since Tommy Lee Jones told Robert Downey Jr to get rid of his nickel-plated sissy pistol (actually, a stainless steel Taurus pistol) and "get a Glock" everyone's jumped onboard with this stuff.

Let's quit obsessing about the Glock fanboys. How 'bout we go after those 1911 dinosaurs for a while? Or, better yet: anyone who likes manual safeties or actual steel frames on their handguns ...

And no, I've never had that happen at my local gun store ... except this one time, guy asked me why I wanted to spend over a grand on a handgun, when those cool little Bersa .380s were on sale for $299 ...

A lot of glock people are like the every smartphone is an Iphone people. To them everything else is for the uneducated, and it's their job to point out how stupid you must be by not choosing the "it shoots itself" glock option.

I had a LGS guy tell me once "If you're not going to buy the glock this S&W sigma will do you just fine." I went 80 minutes down the road and bought an M&P.

I ran into a "1911? Why would you want that?" guy this week at my hospital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZUL4ITG254

I was once told "If it ain't a Glock it's a block" by a young guy at an LGS. I rarely go to that store anymore.

I have been asked many times "is that a Glock?" by people with no knowledge of firearms because they hear that name all the time. As I said earlier, I have no problem AT ALL with Glocks.

I like the comparison to Iphone users. I have had Iphone and Android phones and, while the Apple is fine, I just don't see it as being any better than my Droid. It does some things quite well and others not quite so well. I guess I'm anti-establishment.

Never have had anyone one offer me advice as to buying a Glock but I think if they did I would answer them with: "Glock? Never heard of it before. Are they any good?".

I wonder how long into their Glockenspiel it would be before they figured out I was just kidding with them?