re gun lovers was re my gun is like my american express card hell a glock is the last thing that should be switched to the only thing that i know about a glock is the lack of a real safety on it sure there is that little thing in the trigger but that isn t too great of a safety you re getting warmer the little thing in the trigger has to be depressed before the trigger can move what this means is the damned thing won t go off until the trigger is pulled this makes it just about there have been some problems but we re assuming the gun is functioning correctly as safe as a revolver the gun when working correctly is totally drop safe now in police work this is a consideration there is not a single documented case i m aware of where a police officer was killed because he failed to operate the safety on his firearm there are quite a few documented cases where criminals got hold of the cops gun and couldn t figure out how to get the safety off in time to use the gun thus the proprietary nature of the safety to the criminal at least very likely prevented the office from getting shot the purpose of a safety is to make the gun safe from unintentional fire this does not mean it should be so complicated as to slow down intentional use thus the glock safety is perfectly adequate from a safety standpoint but not necessarily the most desirable from the standpoint of open carry where it is easily grabbed by somebody else by this criteria it does make a lot of sense as a concealed carry piece from the standpoint of police use it is no better or worse than a revolver as far as being proprietary to the officer in the method of firing it the ideal solution may someday be biometric sensing of the user so that the firearm can t be used by anybody but it s owner but for now the wide variety of safety systems helps unless the criminal happens to be familiar with that particular type of firearm rick
