"If there are issues with specific factory ammunition, then Glock needs to at least make an effort to identify for their customers what NOT to use."
Well, the ONLY way to do that would be to issue the following statement.
"In light that ammunition production errors can happen at any time, at any company, to ammunition being loaded on any production line, for any brand, type, bullet weight, etc., and not affect other types of ammunition of the same caliber being made at the same time in that plant, or by other manufacturers, and that these production errors can, in certain circumstances, cause damage to the gun and/or injury to the shooter, it is recommended that no firearm be fired at any time by anyone."
The problems with weak case heads were sorted out, to the best of my knowledge, around 1994 with a redesign of the case being made by one manufacturer.
That solved case-related failures.
What can NOT be solved 100%, though, is the possibility of transient production errors resulting in faulty ammunition.
A single loading machine can suffer a mechanical failure, it can be set wrong, components can be incorrectly combined, etc.
There's no way for Glock, or for SIG, Beretta, S&W, Colt, etc., to have any way of ferreting out those sorts of situations, and it's unrealistic for shooters to expect the firearms maker to police the products of the ammunition manufacturer.
If it were a pervasive, on-going problem with regular occurrences, that possibly would be a different situation.
But, be honest here folks.
Has the rate of reported KBs with Glock 40s gone up, or gone down?
I haven't seen a VERIFIED Glock KB in nearly 6 years.
Before that, I saw them REGULARLY.
The situation with the firearms has been, to the best of my knowledge, rectified, and as a result the number of verifiable Glock KBs has trailed off sharply.
It took a number of years for the Beretta slide failure fiasco to die down, but for some reason it's taking a LOT longer for this issue to die down.
You know, within a 25 mile radius of me there are, as best I can determine, several hundred police officers who carry Glock .40s as their regular side arms, or did until recently.
I've been making a few calls to people whom I know on these police forces, and I've YET to come across any reported KBs over the past 5 or so years with these police forces.
I think it's very telling, though, that people are reading the above message and IMMEDIATELY fixating on the determination that it simply MUST have been the Glock that was at fault. It simply can't be any other mechanism at work. It was the gun, ONLY the gun, NOTHING but the gun.
That's unbelievably short sighted.