Boys I have seen a pile of Glock 22's & 23's used by different agencies over the years, along with a number of personally owned ones that were shot a lot. I've never seen one break. I've been a Glock armorer for six years and it's like being the Maytag repairman.

Now I'll grant you that the cartridge generates more recoil impulse than most nines, but rounds like the 9BPLE can't be far behind it. Frankly I think this "40 is hard on guns" mantra was just more smoke & mirrors used by the FBI to rationalize a service cartridge change, they had already decided to make.

It ain't like they've never done this before, LOL.

Last edited by SargeMO; 08/29/15.
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