Firearm Justification
You are on justified in discharging your firearm if there is immediate threat to your life or the life of someone else, or there is immediate risk of serious injury to you, or to someone else, and there is no other way of preventing the risk
Stoppage
A stoppage is anything that prevents the pistol from firing when the user intends that it should fire
Safe direction
A safe direction is a direction by which any unintentionally fired shot would be safely stopped and contained with no human injury, and at most, minimal property damage
Glock Definition
A mechanically locked, recoil operated, self-loading pistol with inbuilt, trigger, firing pin, and drop safety mechanisms
4 general Safety Principles
- Treat all firearms as if they are loaded 2. Be conscious of where the muzzle of your firearm is pointed at all times. ( never allow your muzzle of your firearm to cover another human being unless it is required by your duties as a police officer 3. Keep your finger off the trigger and on the receiver, until you have your sights on the target and you have decided to fire 4. Be sure of your target. (know what it is, what is in line with it, what is behind it. Never fire at anything you have not positively identified)
Degrees of weapon readiness
Unloaded 1. Magazine not fitted 2. No round in the chamber 3. Pistol cannot be fired Loaded 1. There is a magazine containing rounds fitted 2. Rounds in the chamber 3. Pistol can be fired
5 major parts of the Glock
- Slide 2. Receiver 3. Recoil spring assembly 4. Barrel 5. Magazine
Functioning Sequence of the Glock 17
- Firing 2. Unlocking 3. Extracting 4. Ejecting 5. Feeding 6. Locking into battery 7. Locking open
Three function checks after Glock reassembly
- Trigger 2. Trigger reset 3. Slide lock
Trigger Characteristics
- 12.5mm before the sears break and the pistol can fire 2. 4.0mm is sufficient to reset the sears
