Glock 26 with Cominolli Thumb Safety

[graycrait]

I showed a couple of fellas today how to install these. Why? Why not?

[Guest Bronker]

Craig, have you put these safeties through any rigorous reliability paces?

[graycrait]

I have not ran them hard yet. I personally don't plan on installing any of the safeties on my other Glocks. I figured one on my range gun and one on one of two my shorties. From what I gathered online is that they work that is why I tried them out. Kind of a steeply priced experiment, but seeing as I have done just about every other mod, both externally and internally, that you can do to a Glock I figured I should see what the deal is on these. Now I have to handfit a Ghost Rocket connector on my 17L - that will be about the last of the gadgets I haven't tried that have been on the market for some time which gets pretty good reviews.

[eapking]

When is this friggin topic (product) gonna die? Get a dadgum 1911 and get on with it.

[graycrait]

1911s, Chuck Taylors by Converse and Model Ts' - those were the days.

[redstategunnut]

I do not understand the fascination with taking a gun that works and putting in aftermarket parts that are not even part of the original design. Do people open up watches and stick in extra gears and springs? I want a flipper on a glock like I want a wart on my cock.

[daddyo]

Dude, it's your property. Do with it what you wish. I personally wouldn't cut into the frame of any of my handguns, but I understand the need to experiment. My only hope is that you aren't out trying to convince Glock owners that their weapons are unsafe if they don't add this.

I bought a M&P9c with an external safety from Bud's a couple of years ago (at a killer price) and had a gunsmith remove the safety and install frame plugs. I just don't believe the safeties are needed on DAO carry weapons.

Edited May 13, 2011 by DaddyO

[Troutburger]

Looks good, cant wait for some range reports.

[graycrait]

The naysayer or doomsayer comments are pretty interesting. It ain't like I don't have other Glocks, 1911 or other JMB designs. Just checking out aftermarket parts. No one got excited when I took out the GI grip safety on my Norinco 1911 and replaced it with a beavertail.

I'll give range reports on how these things hold up over time. If they fail or don't work I'll simply take them out and live with a small slot in the frame - it ain't like I haven't already compromised the "genius" frames of more than several dozen Glocks doing grip reductions.

[Guest TnValleyBulletman]

it isn't anything I want but it is your business what you do to your own guns. I am a bit curious about what would be involved in taking one off and filling in the hole. Just thinking ahead in case someone wants to trade me one.

[mikegideon]

The naysayer or doomsayer comments are pretty interesting. It ain't like I don't have other Glocks, 1911 or other JMB designs. Just checking out aftermarket parts. No one got excited when I took out the GI grip safety on my Norinco 1911 and replaced it with a beavertail.

I'll give range reports on how these things hold up over time. If they fail or don't work I'll simply take them out and live with a small slot in the frame - it ain't like I haven't already compromised the "genius" frames of more than several dozen Glocks doing grip reductions.

I know you're a Glock guy. I don't get the need for a safety either, but as long as you did it, what's your opinion of the mod? Good parts, nice feel?

[graycrait]

Now that I have installed Cominolli Thumb safeties on 2 of my 6 Glocks I won't put another on one of mine. It works, has positive engagement either way - so far, but the additional pieces inside my Glocks don't instill me with the same feeling as with the standard small number and make up of stock Glock innards. The parts are a little "fiddley", sort of like the sear/disconnector/hammer & pins lashup or the link/pin and slide stop in a 1911 - just a little "fiddley." Probably last my lifetime, but stock Glock gives me reliability confidence by experience.

I don't mind the device on my red range Glock, as I intend to take the trigger as low as practical. On one of my 2 G26's it is OK, as I carry a BUG and if someone snatches it in public the safety may bamboozle them for a second or two. I have a number of other "cocked" and locked pistols that I carry at times and don't find the addition of a thumb safety in the "right" place moving in the "right" direction disconcerting.

My verdict - save your money. Just another aftermarket gizmo that I have tried on any number of hand or long guns that works - but not so much for me. What I really want is a big TFO front sight in red.

[Guest GLOCKGUY]

Here's a picture of my safety for my Glocks. I just keep this off the trigger until I'm ready to pull it.

[graycrait]

I do know of a case where some bunched up material in a soft IWB holster helped cause a Glock to fire a round through 22" of a fella's leg - lesson learned for him and me - use a "hard" holster with a Glock. That was a catalyst for me to try out the safety seeing as I could find no other sensible first hand comments on the use of those safeties.