A star for Glock

[Checkman]

It's qualification time at my department. Just two hours ago one of the detectives was firing his Glock 23 on the range and had a misfire. He did immediate action drill (tap and rack) and fired again. Guess what? The misfire was a squib and he had a round halfway up his barrel. I guess the angels were with him because the second round pushed the stuck round out. The barrel bulged and he had to replace it at the local gunshop, but other than that everything is okay. I just finished lookingat it and I'm impressed. If nothing else Glock makes a strong gun and this is coming from a guy who carries Sigs on duty. By the way the ammo was 40 caliber 155 grain CCI Blazer.

 

[10-Ring]

Good to read that the detective wasn't injured & it didn't cost him anything more than a new barrel.

 

[Checkman]

Some further details. The squib was the last round in his mag. He put in a new one, but the slide wouldn't go forward. The detective then went into immediate action and got the slide to go forward. The head firearms instructor lectured him about making things fit. Anyway it's still pretty amazing.

 

[J.Bourne]

Is it a 3rd generation? If so, I've heard they have beefed things up so to speak.

May explain why this didn't thankfully turn into a kb.

Glad everything worked out safely.

 

[TheeBadOne]

Hey, we all know this is a lie, Glocks go ka-boom with more regularity than PLO bombers! Right?

 

[Checkman]

J. Bourne.

I have to do some work, but the detective purchased his 23 new a little over a year ago. Does that make it 3rd generation? I'm not a Glockphile.

 

[SigP220ST_Guy]

Don't you know this is a part of the testing the FBI conducts before adopting a new pistol. Yes they fire a pistol with a round stuck in the barrel(squib). And yes the Glock 22 and 23 are FBI approved.

 

[Checkman]

Actually I didn't know that the FBI does this to guns that they are testing for their agents to carry.

 

[J.Bourne]

If he bought it new about a year ago it has to be a 3rd generation.

FWIW - There is an article somewhere on the net that states a Glock 22 went 50,000 rounds with no parts breakages during FBI evaluation at their Quantico firearms facility. I don't know whether true, but if so, that's pretty impressive for tupperware.

 

[Nero Steptoe]

Yeah, but not nearly as imprssive as the 1M rounds fired by Glock through one in their "shop", or the 200k+ fired through a G17 by Chuck Taylor.