re don t knock the glock was re my gun is like my am ex card in article u uicvm uic edu jason kratz u uicvm uic edu writes all very true i m going on what i have read and heard from friends basically the glock is great but i have heard read that it is a lot harder to learn proper handling because of the type of safety that it has i was looking at a glock s w and the s w a couple of weeks ago and the safties on the guns were very different the saftey on the seemed a lot more safe for lack of a better word than the one on the glock of course this could also be a bad thing if you were to pull the gun on somebody you would spend more time fiddling around turning the safety off personally i like the glocks because they are very light and i think they look really cool guess that s why they use them in so many movies but i wouldn t get one as my first semi auto because of the safety i would prefer more training with a traditional semi auto ala colt but of course that s just my opinion jason at the risk of starting the my gun is better than yours flame war i must disagree there is no secret in handling a glock in fact it is often chosen besides its other merits because it shoots like a revolver does basically it can limit the training time read budget due to the fact there are no external safties other than the trigger hence less training time required smith wesson among other types are chosen due to the fact taht they do have the external safties hammer drop as well as mag drop which if properly used have saved many lives when mr bad snatched the gun from the officer and tried to shoot said officer the gun was on safe and would not fire this point had been made in many articles in various gun magazines if fact one author can t remember who staged a little test where he had a revolver and a s w on safe laying on a table and asked people with little firearms experience to on his signal grab the gun and shoot a target he timed the people using each gun the revolver times were pretty close but some of the times with the s w were in minutes or the person just gave up because they could not figure out the saftey you don t often see colt autos issued due to the light trigger which can be accidentally fired in a stress situation opening the issuing city county etc to lawsuits bad press etc of course any problem can be overcome with enough training but such training is not always available to budget crunched departments i know if i were a cop i would want something like a s w just for the off chance of the gun getting taken away the safety doesn t guarantee that mr bad won t figure it out and shoot me but it could buy enough time to draw a second gun and shoot mr bad before it s too late don t think i am too biassed here just because i have had glocks in my possession at one time because i have had a as well in fact it was my first handgun remember the ultimate safety is you the operator and no safety is going to stop an negligent discharge note i don t say accidental if you break the rules of gun handling as per the part of being light weight and looking cool i agree i wouldn t rule it out as a first purchase just my tax steve syck syck miller cs uwm edu
