The problem with that is that when you’re getting shot at and your body is dumping adrenaline to try to stay alive, you stop thinking and start functioning on instinct. The vast majority of the military does not have the requisite training to make the four rules of firearm safety instinctual.

US military arms contracts is largely a good ol boys club and Glock isn’t one of the boys. That and the fact that Glock’s entry into the XM17 contest is regular 17s and 22s. Also, from the research that I’ve done it seems like Glock doesn’t offer the safety anymore.

In South Park whenever Kenny dies, Stan shouts something along the lines of “You killed Kenny!” And then Kyle shouts “You bastards!”

South Park themed cars. Danica’s car would have a Kenny theme so that when she wrecks out we can all exclaim that she killed Kenny and that she’s a bastard.

The only way to stop a threat is to put rounds into that threat. The threat is going to stop in one of three ways. It will voluntarily stop being a threat, it’ll stop being a threat due to a lack of blood pressure, or it will stop being a threat due to a CNS hit. There’s no magic number of rounds it takes for a threat…

Murder is absolutely not the right word. The officer was defending himself in a life threatening situation. The guy with that bat getting killed is completely understandable. You have to stop the threat. A lot of the time, stopping the threat means killing the threat. The lady getting killed is a tragedy, yes, but a…

You do realize that you sound ridiculous, right? Being in a car puts you more at risk of death than being in the presence of a police officer ever will. If you’re seriously that afraid of police officers then you need psychiatric help.

People who think that baseball bats don’t pose a lethal threat are morons. Let me go ahead and crack you upside the head with a baseball bat and we’ll see how not life threatening your injuries are. A good bat swing is around 430 lb-ft of energy. Or, about 2-3x the peak output of the average car engine. That’s more…

“I wasn’t worried about the cost of the ring I was more concerned with what it meant and what it symbolized.”

Am I the only one who thinks being banned for 1.5 years for cocaine use is pretty ridiculous?

I’m just saying there’s approximately a 0% chance of glock winning the XM17 contact. The military is not going to move to Glock.

Yeah absolutely. 50% of the population is of below average intelligence, and (no offense) I’d bet money that that number goes over 50% in the military. Combine low intelligence with bad or insufficient training, and you’re going to get NDs. Safeties help mitigate that at least a little.

Stopping power is a myth. The only real stopping power is a CNS hit.

Modern 9mm has ballistic characteristics so similar to .40 and .45 that it doesn’t matter, and you can fit more rounds in the same gun with 9mm. There’s a reason the feds and LEO are switching to it.

Except the M9 is inferior in basically every way to the G19.

A safety is just another thing to mess up when you’re life is on the line. Your index finger and your brain is the most important safety you have, and people should train with that mentality.

I’m not aware of any Glock model with a normal external safety. No external safety is one of Glock’s main features.

Yeah the problem with that is when you have people who’s job doesn’t revolve around their gun, those lessons don’t stick in. The vast majority of law enforcement and military will never use their guns for anything more than qualifying every year. To most the gun is just something they strap on every morning.

The mainstream military will never issue Glocks as long as they don’t have a real safety. They’re afraid of guns without safeties. Even though guns without safeties are objectively better.

You can’t use your bare hands to pick up meat?