Glock Owners Are The New 1911 Crowd

By Kyle Lamb

Take a minute and reflect back to the days when we all had the same guns. We ran what we had because there hadn’t been a lot of innovation in many years. All of a sudden, out of the gate jumped the next generation of pistols. The old-school boys weren’t happy; they were content with what they had.

“How dare someone change the future?”

“Who would want to carry a pistol made from different materials and with different controls (or the lack of)?”

“Something different? There will never be a pistol better than what I have.”

“This is what Dad carried; he was a cop for many years and it worked for him.”

“I want to carry what the top military units carry. Why should I want something different?”

“No, I’m not scared of innovation. This new gun is just a flash in the pan. It won’t last.”

Those statements could have been made in 1986, but they weren’t. These are recent statements from the band of modern day pistoleros: Meet the Glock Crowd. It seems nothing creates more hate and dissension on the gun interweb than taking sides against a Glock for any reason.

A year ago, I made a video called “Glock vs. M&P.” It went …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo