Easy to clean, but dangerous if you get complacent: https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/cleaning-your-glock-10-easy-steps/
From the blog article: Note: When cleaning your Glock, this first step is super crucial because the pistol must be dry fired in order to initiate disassembly. Even after you have visually and physically checked clear, you still want to hold the weapon pointed in a safe direction.
Step Two: Dry fire the pistol.
1) Pointing the gun away from any person or objects of value (i.e., a safe direction), rack the slide to return the slide into battery and close the action. Check that the chamber is clear one more time.
2) With the slide in battery, point the pistol in a safe direction and then press the trigger rearward. Youāll hear and feel the click of the firing pin moving forward. The trigger must be in its rearward position to remove the slide.
Note. Apply your total attention to complete steps one and two above. Do not allow yourself to get distracted! Most unintentional discharges with the Glock occur at this point when the operator gets distracted.
Unfortunately, Iāve heard from a few people who got a little to comfortable and ended up needing emergency medical assistance and surgeries.
I guess Iāve Been doing it (mostly) right. I use the Q-tip in a couple more areas where there is exposed metal or signs of wear. But 6 drops of oil is about right. Unless you run it through the dishwasher!
Andā¦ the problem here is not the gun, itās the forgetting what matters and starting to believe your own legend (āhey its cool, I know what Iām doingā¦ I can take shortcutsā¦ā). ANY gun can be used in unsafe ways. Unless itās a mechanical failure, the errorās on the operator. Itās a pretty common defect in human beingsā¦ weāre prone to get complacent, and we can be lazy. Sometimes a little OCD is called for.
Always separate ammo from the cleaning table. Always clear the weapon. Always put my finger in the chamber and physically look, even use a flashlight if I have to. No deviation from this step. For 40 years I have followed these rules when cleaning or preparing to clean a weapon. Never get complacent in safety because that is the day it happens.
Iāve got an area marked off on my cleaning table that I never put a loaded gun on. The ammo stays on one side of the room while the cleaning area is on the other. I also try to not stop in the middle of cleaning a gun that way nothing is left sitting out in an unknown condition.
My father in law gives me a friendly hard time about the OCD side. But your right those habits can help prevent incidents
Hey Dennis28, if you want to say the Glock is like the Cadillac of guns, you go right ahead, I love my Glock too. My opinion, the Glock isnāt the best looking gun but itās simple and practical, like Honda products. I think Colts are more like Cadillacās of guns.
Glock literally bought the market by paying to get them used in movies and TV with āproduct placement advertisingā and by virtually giving millions of them away to LE departments by selling to them at far under cost.
Once agencies/people got them in their hands and discovered that the cheap plastic guns performed every time they owned it and quickly overtook the 1911 as the most popular LE and SD handgun in the US.
@Dawn To me, it comes down to marketing (reinforced by law enforcement choosing it as their issued service pistol) and reliability because itās not about affordability. There are firearms on the market that cheaper than Glock and theyāre just as good or even better than Glock.
the Sigās are more like Mercedes of guns 