?Glock Question?

tatercats

Are Glocks double action or single action?

tsavo303

They are called "safe action" which i think the ATF has classifed as a striker fired double action or sometihing. really to me it is like a single action b/c
trigger does not priviot when fired
trigger pull does not change after 1st shot
multiple dry fires are not possible.
I know this is not techni. correct.

beantownshootah

This is sort of a semantic issue.

The way I look at it, Glocks are neither truly single action nor double action but somewhere in between.

They are not "single action" because even internally cocked, the gun can't be fired without adding energy to the firing pin via the trigger. You still have to partially cock the gun by pulling the trigger to get it to fire.

They are not truly double action for the same reason. Part of the energy necessary to fire the gun comes from racking the slide. . .you can't get a true "double strike" just by pulling the trigger, say the same way you could with a Beretta or a CZ75 or a revolver.

bondai

quote:Originally posted by tatercats
Are Glocks double action or single action?


Everytime you pull the trigger they fire. The trigger pull is the same everytime. The trigger returns to the same position after every round...

v35

Neither, it's a hibred. Since they originated it, it deserves to be called Glock Action.

mballai

For all "practical" purposes it's a DA gun. It's in the same general DA category as the Para LDA, Kahr, SIG DAK, S&W's new M&P, and possibly some others. The technicalities aside, it's how a gun shoots. You can argue about it, but one of the reasons Glock has most of the LE market is because the trigger behaves like a DA.

Wehrmacht_45

If a gun cant be cocked as well as fired by only pulling a trigger then its always going to be single action in my book....so a glock is to me nothing more than a slightly manualy boosted single action.

leeblackman

Its definately not a double action gun. It functions more like a single action without a hammer.

The reason I say this is because a double action semi-auto will continually operate the hammer causing a firing pin strike every time you squeeze the trigger, even when unloaded. But a single action will only strike once without manually cocking the gun when unloaded. The glock characterizes like a single action.

For instance if you were say to get a poor primer strike in a glock and the cartridge did not discharge, you have to completely cycle the action to cock the gun so you can fire it. Where as an actual double action pistol, such as a beretta, all you would do is pull the trigger again to cause a second primer hit.

brerhunter

bondai got it right, everytime you pull the trigger it goes bang and returns to the same position then lets you do it again. EVERYTIME

tatercats

thanks guys