Fellow Shooters,
The P320 recall prompted me to do some research into other brands/models of pistols recalled for safety reasons, and I discovered details that show why we should be just as disgusted with Glock as we are with Sig (it would be intellectually disingenuous to comment without reading the entire page- especially the first five of the last six paragraphs- at the link provided below)...
To summarize, it appears Gaston Glock designed a pistol that wasn't initially drop safe, as established by the case of the Suffolk County PD officer whose unmodified Glock 19 consistently discharged when a mag was loaded and the
slide was racked, with the department armorer's final test resulting in a three round burst, and by the failed DEA frisbee tests...
But Gaston refused to initiate a "safety recall" because the costs were too high, and instead enacted a "voluntary upgrade" to replace six fire control parts to fix the issue.
Regarding safety- why hasn't the Glock been improved so it doesn't require a trigger pull for disassembly, a feature the institutional markets are interested in?
The existing Glock design will likely always result in a higher RATE of UDs for Glocks than for P320s (because more people will probably press the trigger on a loaded Glock chamber than will drop a P320 at the -30 angle), and the human error in Glock disassembly doesn't really matter, only the actual real world number and RATE of UDs matter because of potential for injury or death.
I hope Sig fires Ron Cohen, but Gaston Glock is just as unethical, and for us to promote Glock while disparaging Sig is both hypocritical and petty.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080604...grade-faq.html