New to guns, but why am I hearing about lots of gun owners returning glocks?

I did see a video from a large gun store where they talked about the most returned gun of the year. Glock was the most returned 2 years in a row with the AR15 overtaking that title last.

They said almost all the Glock returns were people stating it was their first gun and they purchased without having any training. They couldn’t get comfortable with the safety system as they didn’t know anything about handling a gun.

In the AR15s, they said people bought them and then realized they didn’t have somewhere to shoot - urban or suburban with limited opportunities to shoot a rifle.


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It took me awhile to get comfortable with carrying a chambered round in a holster, but handling a gun (loaded or unloaded) without using a manual safety was never an issue. Probably from my early years with rifles where I would just open the bolt if I needed to make it safe. An engaged manual safety only meant missing the shot I guess by the time I owned a pistol, I knew I could keep objects (fingers or foreign) out of the trigger guard.

Glock was my first pistol (almost 30 years ago). I shot Glocks for a number of years before i ever started carrying a gun.

At the last Advanced Armorer's class I took, I was the only person there who was not a member of an SF unit, they declined to identify what they were other than they were Army. They had taken the basic armorer's course the day before and were going straight through the Advanced course prior to deployment with Glocks.

On a side note, I didn't start out as the only civilian in the class, the instructor actually sent two guys home after a couple of hours - he didn't feel they were prepared for the course.

Glocken#1 said:

Flocks of Glocks :



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Sorry, your joke will lose some impact now that I just made the 2nd set of "flocks" fly back to Cypress by way of Washington DC, Africa, and Pakistan