After reading all you Glock Fans touting the Quality of the Glock, I just read on my Facebook page of a friend who just received his new Glock . Minus the ejector! Maybe I'm not as stupid as I seem to be when I buy a Taurus or a S&W SD. At least all the parts are in them. No issues with them, and I just got a new M&P Shield that so far has fired one magazine without a hitch. I'll know more about this thing when I get more S&W40's. I guess the moral of the story, is out of the millions of handguns sold each year there is bound to be a lemon here and there. My only problem is two of the last three I have bought had to be shipped back. Bad average.

I hear you. Quality control is not what it should be for lots of companies. QC inspectors are expensive and don't produce anything. Some companies think it is cheaper/better for them to quickly get goods out to meet demand and fix stuff later that wasn't up to snuff. What they should be more concerned with is the damage to their reputation. If they get too many returns, it will cost them, but they are very aware of their return rate.

I don't believe have the chit posted on Facebook, but i'm sure this could happen

Stuff happens.

What should happen is the OEM happily fixes it or works with you to rectify the thing. Bonus would be their tripping over themselves while profusely apologizing and offering you company swag.

If that doesn't happen, then there's a problem.

I have had a brand stinkin' new Glock with an "overly bent" slide lock spring so that the gun would kinda disassemble itself randomly. I can see how it would've passed QC checks because it was random. That's the stinker with QC and repairs in general - the things that are only kinda broken or are only broken sometimes, intermittent failures.

Luckily, the fix was just my bending that leaf spring back the other way.

I've had to return a Glock to the factory right after buying it new. The good news is that Glocks are so simple, they can almost always be made right by an armorer quickly figuring out which part needs replacing, and then just replacing it.

So tell us how they shipped a Glock to him? Does he have an FFL? Did he "receive" it from the gun store and not notice the hole where it was supposed to be?

I don't believe 90% of what is posted anywhere

Rondrews: I have had a LOT to do with Glocks for a LOT of years including 1,120 of my co-workers using them!
Additionally I have purchased several Glocks for my own and my professional useages - in all of those years I have never heard of a comparable incident to which you allude to!
Facebook anonymous innuendo is NOT going to replace my firsthand experience with Glocks.
Glocks ARE first-rate firearms - dependability, readiness and reliable accuracy are built into them.
Re-assess your insinuation.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I thought the same thing, but I re-read the post and realized he says the ejector, not the extractor. That could go unnoticed a lot easier than a missing extractor I suppose.

Should have bought an SCCY, laffin

I know a lot of people that carry and use Glock's a lot and never heard a complaint other then they are boringly reliable and accurate. That said for some reason I plan on buying 1911's for a while. I don't know what it is about them.

and that includes what is posted here. In fact Jimmy, I don't believe you don't believe that particular percentage you quoted.

I do. They were designed when firearms were the products of human craftsmanship, and it comes across in the way they look, feel, and shoot. That, and their history runs deep in American veins. There is definitely a great deal appealing about them.

It's the same for a pre-64 Winchester 70 or 94, or an old Winchester 92 in .44-40, or a nice old S&W double action revolver, or a Colt SAA, or well-made replicas of any of the above. And the list goes on.

I've seen Smith & Wesson revolvers come from the factory with glaring defects such as; no rear sight milled, unrifled barrel, no cylinder notch bevel, etc.

Everyone knows that 87.44% of all statistics quoted are made up on the spot.

Source??

My mouse is made of plastic.

That is all the plastic I need in my hand.

He just happened to get one of the California Legal Glocks

Negative!

The CA compliant version would have the ejector but would be absent the firing pin

And no channel for one, either.

Anything made or used by a human being can fail. Except for my stuff when used by me.


mike r

Sam you are right.

I was thinking that the OP reminded me of someone that used to post here a lot, mostly in the rifles section, but could not quite put my finger on it. Then it dawned on me. The OP is the Swampman700 of the Handguns section!

Maybe a new Taurus 24/7 would be just the ticket.

They are so cool, that even with the safety on, all you have to do is shake them and they will shoot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fn6GFSwTEw


That is too Cool!

Holy crap! I don't guess that would pass a drop test.

Taurus appears to be on the ragged edge of innovation. Well hell, now I've got some Glock to get rid of.


Get that Taurus into the right shaky hands make that socker run full auto until it jams.

They are coming out with a full auto version, promoted by Michael J Fox.

That's mean......I laughed...... that's mean.........I'm still laughing.............

Now that is funny, shaken, not stirred.


mike r

I like Glocks, I have had 8 over the years. I still have 5.

I like to check GT distributors site once in a while. They have early model (2.5?) model 23's for 279$. Slap a 9mm conversion barrel in it and poof, a Gen 2 19.

I can't verify the guy on Facebook is telling the truth. It was on the SCCY CPX1& CPX2 Blog. He didn't expound, we were discussing Quality and he just posted that The Glock he got did not have an Ejector in it, thereby trying to state that no Manufacturer today sells 100% perfect guns. I have no issue with Glock. They appear to be nice guns, but I don't have one so I can't judge. and I can't reasess my insinuation, because it's the same as saying that anybody on this forum should be suspect of what they post. You seem to have a lot of first hand info on the Glock's and I believe you. I believe the guy got a gun without an ejector also., Would you believe me if I told you I bought a new S&W Bodyguard from DFW Shooting Sports and the Thumb Safety was inoperable? Sent it back to S&W, it was fixed and now it is on the way back again, because now the trigger wont fire. That was three weeks ago. Now I'm waiting to get it back and see what else is going to be wrong.

So I guess nobody's perfect..... And despite the stuff I read on the 'net all I know is that I bought a brand new Gen 3 Glock 19 in Feb. of 2012 and it was all there and has functioned superbly ever since and is now approaching the 2000 rounds mark. But stuff still happens occasionally even though you can't always believe everything you read.

Glocks that are assembled according to specs are excellent, durable, and reliable weapons. It's rare indeed for one not to be built right from the factory, but it's ordinarily a simple matter of replacing the part to fix it.

Now, there were some problems with the early Gen Fours and the early 42s, but they were worked out.

Glock isn't really perfection. Pretty damn close to it, though.