Getting my first gun tomorrow. Glock 22, Gen 2, .40 LE surplus and I'm wondering what the overall consensus is. I'm going to primarily use it for home defense. May carry it when I care to but for day to day use, it'll probably sit, get shot once a month and shit.
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James Evans
Angel Ortiz
I would suggest getting something other than .40
Zachary Clark
>it'll probably sit, get shot once a month and shit
If it shits, I'd return it.
Zachary Morales
Blatant shitposting
Adam Anderson
Switch it out to 9mm?
>return it
aint no shitpost pussy
Christopher Allen
I would prefer 9mm over .40 but .40 is fine. As long as you are getting a good price for it go nuts user
Lucas Kelly
ignore this faggot
He can't handle someone asking a real question without trolling.
.40 is fine but I hear bad things about durability of glocks in .40, so I would suggest a 9mm.
Xavier Fisher
Which gen of .40 Glocks blew up?
Liam Sanchez
If you want to shoot your first gun a much then get a 9mm. 40 is going to be more costly and you end up getting a 9mm anyway to save on ammo cost.
John Young
>.40
I have some bad news user
Luke Williams
if he's shooting once a month ammo costs aren't going to be that great.
Ryder Garcia
make a Roni with it or a Micro Roni!
Benjamin Nelson
Some of us aren’t poor so the cost difference doesn’t really matter much.
Sebastian Nguyen
Nolan Wilson
A 40cal Glock with a 9mm conversion isn't as reliable. Glocks are great guns in 9mm...'eh' in anything more powerful
The chamber is unsupported so you can't shoot any hot loads
Nicholas Campbell
Op hops in the gun world and immediately steps in shit
Julian Thomas
.40 is fine but not in a Glock
Carson Anderson
Caleb Jackson
Yucky Frankenstein caliber imo
Adam Ward
Congrats OP, you picked the very model responsible for the glocknade meme.
Mason Gutierrez
Wtf is a Frankenstein calibre? Anything designed in the last 100 years?
Robert Walker
someone who isn't poor wouldnt be getting a surplus handmedown gen 2, bitchboy
Michael Walker
I thought that was the Gen 1
Jack Gutierrez
I'll just leave this here: youtube.com
9mm and .40 are both fine.
Andrew Peterson
I don't get why Jow Forums shits on .40 so much. First .40 was a meme, but now you mention .40 and a hundred retards think it's their turn to make a joke about it, so .40 being a meme has become a meme.
Nathaniel Scott
The history shows it’s a fucking meme caliber.
Keep it. More 9mm for me.
Jackson Young
Y’all convincing this poor op to buy a gun he won’t shoot/like. Most don’t like it here because most don’t shoot it in favor of .45 and 9mm filling the void.
Luke White
DON'T GET .40!
Cops and feds are selling their 40s faster than anyone can buy them.
.40 is slowly but surely dying.
And the only reason it exists in the first place is because the government wanted it.
Except they didn't. It's a compromise round because women couldn't meet the requirements with 10mm.
So when the government that is propping up .40 doesn't want it anymore, what do you think will happen to it?
And .40s beat guns to death and require FAR more maintenance.
Levi Reed
Only Gen 1.
Alexander Jackson
-t. 9mm
Alexander Nelson
I own handguns in 9mm, .25acp, .380 auto and .357 magnum/.38 special.
William Miller
>So when the government that is propping up .40 doesn't want it anymore, what do you think will happen to it?
Approximately the same thing that happened to 30.06 when the government decided to stop using it.
Jordan Jenkins
>.25ACP
>.380
Good god why
Robert Richardson
>And .40s beat guns to death and require FAR more maintenance.
Oh, please. But 10mm and +P+ won't? Anything bigger than 9mm with more energy will take a more robust design to handle the recoil
But a H&K USP is good for 20,000 rounds of .40S&W, Sig and S&W also have appropriately designed .40's
GLOCK rushed the G22 to beat everyone else to the market. But, it shows. It's a 9mm with a bigger barrel. So yes, in a GLOCK you have to worry about excessive recoil, and excessive parts wear. You also cannot shoot high pressure loads due to an unsupported chamber
.40 bridges the gap between 9mm and 10mm in a gun designed for it, in a Glock, you're stuck a lot closer to the 9mm end of the gap. But when a gun like a USP, you can push out 600 ft pounds and not worry about small parts or an unsupported chamber glocknading
Ethan Jones
They were given to my grandparents as wedding presents and then to me.
So...dying slowly, only being used by fudds, and being replaced by a slightly smaller round that has nearly identical ballistic capabilities as it sky rockets in price.
Brody Johnson
No, he wants the capacity of a .45 with the stopping power of a 9mm.
Makes perfect sense
Jack Myers
bought from sweaty ben, for certain.