Tell me about your Glock(s).....

[Adam Helmer]

Mr. 16 gauge,

I have limited Glock experience, and that is why my Personally Owned Weapon (POW) stays in the vault since I retired. In 1989, the agency went from revolvers to Glocks Model 17 or 19, the agent's choice and I picked the 19. We got a letter of authorization and bought our Glocks directly from Glock at government cost. Hence: we carried POWs.

I was the Firearms Coordinator (Instructor) then and shot my M19 a lot. Twice, between 1989 and 1996, my M19 STOPPED cold! I returned the 19 to Smyrna, GA and the 19 was refit. Both times the stoppages occcured on the range, fortunately. The trigger spring broke. After I retired in 1996, the 19 STOPPED, again, on my club range, and was refit. My M19 was Generation 1. When I got it back in 1996, after refit, it had a different (captured) recoil spring and I do not know what, if any, upgrades occured inside my 19.

I believe Three Strikes and a gun is OUT! I went back to my M1911 built from an AMT stainles frame with a blued slide-it has never STOPPED for me and it gets shot almost daily.

Adam