A Glock kabooom in West Virginia

[L.E. Keeney]

Looks like its in a G21SF


http://www.wtov9.com/news/21866969/detail.html

[garand4life]

Maybe Glock's aren't perfect after all. I wonder what he was feeding that beast. A brand new G21 dead, that is a sad story.

[TAB]

a glock 21 is 45 acp right?   45 acp is low presure round, so either the gun was really messed up or there was a reloading mistake.

[twyacht]

There have been "kaboom" postings before regarding the Glock which gets the most press....

As a G21 owner, I have seen these pistols tortured, yes literally tortured. and still function. The links are here in the archives. Buried, placed in buckets of sand, dirt mud, thrown from airplanes, dragged behind trucks over pavement, and still work.   I was late to the "dark side" of Glock ownership, but do not believe it is a Glock issue.

History, on some posts, has shown a failure of ammo to perform. LEO's get specific ammo from specific ammo manufacturers. If there is more to this story after the follow up investigation, I'd love to read about it.

There is simply too few parts to the G21 for it to kaboom. If the round is in battery, and there is no obstruction in the barrel, it goes downrange.

It can't double feed, or cycle after a misfire, UNLESS it is done manually. Look at where the damage is. It's at the breech. Not anywhere down the barrel.

It was an ignition issue at the source, ie firing pin strikes bad round.

Just my humble .02 cents, and I still love my M+P

[ericire12]

The chief believes bad ammunition caused this bizarre accident, but he's looking into it further.

Most of these incidents are.... usually hot hand loads

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[ratcatcher55]

I had a coworker ruin a G21 after he fired numerous "hot" handloads through it.  He was shooting a qualifier with factory Golden Sabre round when it went Kabom. Magazine was eject down and he had numerous cuts to his strong hand.

He took the blame and ribbing for it.  Never tried +P+++ rounds again.

[m25operator]

Classic overload scenario, or slightly out of battery when fired, the pressure went down on the least supported side of the case, the feed ramp. I bet the case has a nice large hole at 6 o'clock. I have seen double charges in the Glock 21, you could hear the different report, but it did not blow the trigger out, or split the frame, it did enlarge the chamber area enough, you could not beat the slide away enough to eject the case. I would like to see pictures of the disassembled pistol and empty case.

[garand4life]

I'm going to have to call a buddy in the Marshall Co Sheriffs office and see if he can take a few for me. Its a 15 minute drive. Or even better a 2 sec phone call.

[blackwolfe]

The news report said it was a new gun and had never been used before.  I wonder if the bore was checked before they used it.  If the bore was clear, than I wonder if there was a defect in the metal itself.

[CDR]

Perhaps its the new Generation 4.