The Trump campaign claimed that he bought a Glock handgun from a South Carolina gun store.
In a video posted on X, a Trump spokesman wrote: “President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!”
But his campaign later backtracked and said that the former president didn’t make the purchase.
Can glocks backfire on a user and hurt them? Just wondering as a non-gun user.
They’re extremely reliable. They don’t have a safety other than a little tab on the trigger, so he has to be negligent with his trigger finger…
They actually have three internal safeties: There’s the one on the trigger which prevents the trigger from moving backward unless something is inside the trigger guard, is physically on the trigger shoe, and pulling it backward. There’s a sort of little shelf on the trigger sear which part of the cruciform slots into which prevents downward movement of the cruciform and keeps it from slipping off the striker and allowing the gun to fire if dropped. Then there’s the firing pin safety plunger, which prevents the firing pin/striker from moving forward until the plunger is depressed by a protrusion on the trigger bar when the trigger is in the pulled position. Which means you have to do something monumentally stupid and reckless to shoot yourself in the foot.
If someone is going to do something monumentally stupid it will be Trump
Like pulling the trigger while the gun is pointed at your foot? So there is still a chance.
Don’t worry his hands are too little and limp to squeeze the trigger.
They used to, enough that “glocksplode” was a meme in certain gun forums