Glock's "Safe-Action" being scrutinized.

[Danny]

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_38/b4147038111680.htm

 

[Roarak]

Interesting article. Business Week is usually fairly unbiased.

 

[Jholmes]

Sounds like poor primary safety management to me!

None of my Glocks have ever gone bang without my squeezing the trigger.
I have holstered and drawn my G17 thousands of times and it has never discharged a round that wasn't expected.


If they would just keep their Booger hook off of the bang switch, they wouldn't have an AD.

 

[nofearfactor]

I just went to the coffee table and made sure my 17 was pointed away from me...(O ya,its the XD I dont leave out on the table)...whatever.

 

[aeropb]

Double action revolvers have no "external safety'. And they were the standard for how long? 1899-1980's?

 

[Rob72]

Sounds like someone is testing the waters for a new gun-grab/class-action suit.

 

[DanB]

I had a long talk with my Glock after reading this article. I told it that it would be wrong for it to discharge without me pulling the trigger. I told it of the consequences that we both would face should something like this occur.

It agreed to wait to discharge until I had depressed the trigger.

I'm glad we got that conversation out of the way.

 

[Street Rat]

I don't know what to do, we just bought my wife a glock (I haven't told my XD or M&P yet). Should we take it back?

 

[mmchambers06]

I don't know what to do, we just bought my wife a glock (I haven't told my XD or M&P yet). Should we take it back?

Far too dangerous to just take back. Give it to me instead. I will make sure that no one is ever accidentally harmed by it.

 

[Glocktogo]

I'm just glad the tort lawyers didn't get to screw up a perfectly good operating system. The G-22 jamming issues are a separate story, but the Safe Action system is perfectly fine as is.