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Glocks are designed the way they are to meet the purchase specifications of the Austrian Army a few years ago. Then the US Police management found them to be the perfect answer to minimumizing the amount of hours of training required for their officers to transition from revolvers to auto-loaders. Glocks will fire (drop the firing pin) a little further out of battery than any other manufacturer's auto-loader. This is only a problem if the chamber is dirty and something is preventing the cartridge from being fully chambered. A common cause of this is the residue from shooting un-jacketed lead bullets. Any cartridge that is fired while not fully chambered will burst out the rear of the brass. All steel handguns handle this occurance best, aluminum framed handguns next best and polymer framed handguns the least best.
Glocks are reliable, safe and fairly accurate if kept clean, handled within the Four Basic Rules of Safe Gunhandling and fed only cartridges loaded with jacketed bullets. There are many aftemarket parts available for your personal customization of yours.
There are many people shooting lead bullets thru their Glocks with total reliability, but they know how to clean the barrels and do it frequently. All firearms are just tools and need to be maintained properly. I have been present when a Glock had a "kB", a S&W auto split its barrel, a Colt Govt. Model 1911 spit half of its barrel out the muzzle and a Sig 220 broke an extractor. Shoot any of them enough and something will happen or break.
I am a master armorer for Glocks, S & W revolvers & autos, Colt 1911s and Sig Sauers. I carry a S & W Model 4006 on duty because that is what my agency dictates. I would carry my Sig Model 220 if allowed. I don't feel in any danger from carrying the S & W and wouldn't either if we were told to carry Glocks.
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