I'm having issues with my Glock 27.

[Airman193SOS]

I've recently been having trouble with my Glock. I fully intend to take it to a gunsmith to get it looked at, but I'd still like to hear your opinions on the matter.

Problem One: The magazine. The magazine has a well-known flaw: an inability to load it to capacity with the stock baseplate. That's not the problem. The problem is that the slide locks back semi-regularly with one round in the magazine and it won't feed properly. It seems to me that it would be an easy fix to simply get a new magazine or perhaps to change the spring and follower. This, while a small issue, has pretty much shattered my confidence in the weapon because it is my usual carry piece. I'd like to get this taken care of.

OK, that's the small issue here. Here's the big one.

The extractor is frozen open. I have done everything that I know, which is admittedly not much, to solve that problem. To make things worse, I cannot pull the trigger. When I do the slide creeps back in tandem with the trigger about an eighth of an inch and will not pull through the full length of travel or discharge the firing pin. As a result I also cannot remove the slide from the weapon.

It seems to be a pretty serious malfunction with at least one of the safeties. However, while I am quite familiar with the operating characteristics of the weapon I am not a gunsmith, and before I do anything stupid and cause severe damage to either the weapon or myself I was curious as to why this might be happening.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[CountGlockula]

Welcome to the site friend!

First of all, is it a used gun? If so, there needs to be some major maintenance.

Second, buy a new magazine and use the magazine loader to load it full. Keep it full with ammo and leave them in there for a week to "break in".

Third, the extractor can be easily removed by safely field stripping the weapon and detail strip the slide to analyze the extractor to see any defects.

Hope this helps.

 

[glockman19]

Welcome to THR,

Send it back to glock. I just sent a Glock 26 back due to ejector issues. They replaced the ejector and springs. If you send it directly to them via FedEx or UPS overnight they will send it directly back to you. NO FFL necessary. It's 100% lifetime guaranteed. I've never known anyone with a Glock either first, second, or third owner denied free repair.

 

[Airman193SOS]

Thanks for the welcome.

It is a "used" gun inasmuch as I bought it new 5 years ago and have fired it pretty regularly. But it has been mine from the beginning.

With regard to field stripping the weapon, I can't do that. Something is hung up and as a result I cannot pull the trigger to facilitate field stripping.

 

[Joe the Redneck]

OK, ignore me. I give bad advice.

Get a can or carb cleaner, take the slide outside, and give it the hosing down of a lifetime. See if rivers of carbon gunk flow out.

I don't really think it will help, it sound like something is out of spec. Give Glock a call.

Joe

 

[whatbrick]

Can you lock the slide back? If so, then you can still strip the slide, which should then allow you to take the slide off the frame. With the slide locked back, you can reach the firing pin spacer sleave...press the sleave down, remove the cover plate, etc. After removing the innards from the slide you shouldn't need the trigger in the rear position in order to take the slide off.

Try the above if you do not want/intend to send it to Glock.

 

[Airman193SOS]

OK, I managed to get it open and apart. What it was was the firing pin safety. For some reason it was frozen in place and it would not be depressed by the trigger bar, the trigger bar would merely deflect off of it. So I took a screwdriver and pushed it through the magazine well, and when I depressed the safety it moved with an audible click. So for some reason that is freezing in place.

I'm taking it to a gunsmith friend of mine, and he's going to disassemble, clean and reassemble with the required replacement parts. That should hopefully restore my confidence in the weapon, although it will take a few boxes to confirm that for sure. Yes, it's a tough job going to the range, but somebody has to do it. It might as well be me.