Has anyone seen this Glock malfunction?

[Shadow Heart]

i have heard of the early models failing with that part, and have had my models front sight disappear, (old pin in style), had a replacement sent out free of charge only to have it happen again a few days later, switched to trijicon sight with the screw in front and never has a problem since.

[ar15jules]

Have never witnessed either. I have never heard of a slide lockactually breaking. As far as the front sight goes, hmm...shit happens.
Jules

[Chip W]

that was my first post on Glock Talk (trying to troubleshoot it), i got called troll and every other name in the book

One of my first posts on GT related to items I perceived as issues on a Gen 4 G17 (polymer chipping off inside of rails), I got pretty much the same response. Far too many fanboys on there for sure,
Fanboy Rule 1; Do not besmirch Mother Glock.

[Brick]

Well gee, old adage goes something like. "if it can go wrong it will and usually at the worst time".

Any small part is subject to breakage. Inspect frequently and carefully!

[Shawn.L]

Ive seen all kinds of sight failures. From drifing rears, to Triium tubes dying, breaking, falling out, FO rods getting kicked out, whole sights disapeer during a COF, or even once had one I had loctite in fall out while holstered.

The self-disasembly though... thats a new one on me. I do know I had heard of (iirc) some 4th gen guns have the takedown activate with a WML, I think there was a youtube video out with a guy demoing it.

[synergy]

Saw it once on the range to a buddy. The spring which holds that lever in place broke, the lever slid out, then the gun doubled on him...twice. The slide went too far forward, and that somehow allowed the striker to move past the trigger bar or something.

We found the lever on the floor, installed a new spring for him, and the gun was back to normal again.

Never saw the lever break though. Seen plenty of sights fall off though (seen it on most manufacturers guns - particularly S&W sigmas, Sig's in recent years, and the Remington R1's).

[BrowningBoy]

I had my front sight fall off my G17. Replaced it with the screw in metal version with a little loctite and never had a problem again. ALL GUNS MALFUNCTION. Anyone that tells you different is a fool.

[Chazman321]

ALL GUNS MALFUNCTION. Anyone that tells you different is a fool.

Or lucky... So far, I've been lucky...

However, once I did spend an hour helping look for a TINY black Glock part in the grass that went flying off the gun... Many a laughs and a few beers topped off that night... lol


-Chaz

[Lycanthrope]

Have never witnessed either. I have never heard of a slide lockactually breaking. As far as the front sight goes, hmm...shit happens.
Jules

It wasn't the slidelock. It was the takedown lever.

Lycanweirdthrope

[shooker8]

I have around 10k + with my father through my g17 and never had that problem. The only problem I had was when I put my sights on I never put loctite on and it came loose after a few thousand shots. Never had any spring problems or slide problems though.