Yes but -- should people who don't know this basic fact about a Glock be allowed to buy one? After all, it is a lethal weapon.I give credit to people who suspect they may not be smart enough to keep a gun without a real safety around-
As to guns coming and going, this has also been my pattern. Some favorites I've had for many years. But hundreds have come and gone. I did a little spread sheet (my version: lined legal yellow pad) that only covers the past 15 years or so, I came out ahead a bit. But there were losers and gainers in there.Over the years I've bought a lot of guns I don't have anymore. Same thing with cars and motorcycles. With out a doubt with every purchase I knew what I was getting. Somewhere along the line they lost their luster and on down the road they went. It might have been financial, or I got boored with it or whatever. I might have broke even on some deals and lost money on others. Money's not that important to me. It's just a way to get stuff. I like stuff. More money, more stuff, less money less stuff. As far as Glocks lack of a safety, why isn't not carrying a round in the chamber and slingshoting the slide when ready to shoot a thing? When I was in the Navy doing roving patrols on board that's how we'd carry our 1911's. It worked well for me being left handed. Now days I have a few semi auto magics and carry them all that way. I don't have to hunt for a button, switch or lever. It's as simple as round in the chamber gun ready to shoot, round out of the chamber gun is safe.
In the pistols I've kept, I've got a Glock, a couple of 1911's, a Walter P.38, Smith & Wesson Mod. 59, etc. I never think about the lack of safety on the Glock. Because like oremike, I don't keep a round chambered. Simplest way in the world to keep a gun from going off when you don't want it to, and that's pretty near all the time your finger isn't on or poised near the trigger. I figure if I don't have time to rack the slide, they've got me anyway. Like from behind or whatever. And I don't worry about the round jamming when I rack the slide because I won't have guns (or bullet designs) that are unreliable in that way.
Thinking about newbies and loaded chambers, it might just be that they are afraid they won't think to rack the slide if and when the need arises. Simply because of their lack of familiarization with such firearms. Whereas those of us who have had firearms in their lives for many years, it just comes as second nature. We do it without giving it any thought.
As to my opinion of the Glock "safety trigger." I'm not sure it's quite as fool-proof as Gaston would have us believe. Yes, it takes engagement of two separate triggering devices. But I'd think that if someone got a long, narrow object stuck inside the trigger guard where it wasn't supposed to be, it would be possible for it to accidentally discharge. This scenario isn't likely if the proper kind of holster is in use, like the police use. In the hands of newbies, not so much.