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Here is a part by part movie showing how a Glock works...too many things can wear out or get dirty and stop functioning as engineers designed them to work...too complicated, the more parts involved the higher the risk of something going wrong.
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Smith & Wesson M&Ps have 46 parts.
A 1911 has around 58/59/60 parts to function depending on who made it.
Beretta 92s have 65 parts, and a CZ75 has 67.
When the US military went to replace the 1911, the Sig and Berettas could fire twice as many rounds between failures as 1911s.
When the M9 was replaced, the Glock was more durable and reliable than any pistol the US military had ever tested. Contract went to Sig for the P320, which wasn’t as reliable; which has 52 parts for the standard model and 56 parts for the manual safety model.Last edited by graynote; 01-22-2025, 04:56 PM.Comment
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I'm no expert on 1911s but if my memory serves the series 70 has no firing pin block but the series 80 does. I may be misremembering. I no longer own any 1911s.Comment
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My 1911 fell out of its holster hard enough to chip the tile in my kitchen and didn't go off. Want your gun to be "drop safe"? Don't drop it and it'll be safe!
Of course, that didn't work on a friend of my dad's whose .45 Colt Peacemaker fell out the holster in a pickup truck and went off (it was an old model with 6 in the cylinder). Bullet went in his ass cheek and came out his shoulder then bounced around in the cab. He showed me the scars.Comment
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The S80 came along when there was a push away from revolvers to semi-automatics for LE in the 1980s during which time, liability was at the forefront. It seems that most went the way of DA/SA pistols.Last edited by graynote; 01-24-2025, 03:56 PM.Comment
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My 1911 fell out of its holster hard enough to chip the tile in my kitchen and didn't go off. Want your gun to be "drop safe"? Don't drop it and it'll be safe!
Of course, that didn't work on a friend of my dad's whose .45 Colt Peacemaker fell out the holster in a pickup truck and went off (it was an old model with 6 in the cylinder). Bullet went in his ass cheek and came out his shoulder then bounced around in the cab. He showed me the scars.Last edited by graynote; 01-24-2025, 03:57 PM.Comment
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