The meme about Glock reliability is fake safety.

Glocks are not actually the most reliable guns on the planet. My Glock 17 will fail to extract about 2-3% of the time, with any commercial ammo.<br><br>Or put another way, one out of every fifty shots with my Glock 17, I get a failure to extract. One out of every fifty shots I point a gun at my face.<br><br>Which is not a safe safety record. <br><br>The reason I tolerate this is that it is so easy to clear the jam with a tap rack, that frankly I have never been in a self-defense situation where I couldn't just tap-rack my way out of trouble. This is also the reason why a lot of people tolerate the Glock, because clearing these failures is so much easier than it is on other guns.<br><br>Meanwhile, I have a Walther CCP M2. This gun never has failures. It runs without failures at 50,000 rounds, and it shoots commercial and practice ammo. It shoots whatever you stuff in it.<br><br>But if you ever do get a failure to extract with the CCP M2, you're going to be there to clear it for a long time. This is because the CCP M2 has a breech face that is buried inside of a fixed barrel shroud, and the only way to clear the failure is to get an empty case out from under the extractor. You need to use a screwdriver to pry the breech face open on the CCP M2. It's a reliable gun, but when it fails and it will fail, clearing the failure is an ordeal. If safety is your absolute primary concern, you should just buy a revolver. With modern self defense rounds, it is much safer than a semi-auto.<br><br> safety!