Are Glock connectors still useable with the cominolli custom thumb safety?
Any drawbacks to this safety?
Looking for personal experience and other useful feedback.
Please refrain from saying something like, “My finger is my safety” or “If you want an external safety, buy another gun/M&P/HK/etc…” Or “Putting a safety on a glock is pointless.”
I’m extremely happy with my G19 in terms of size, trigger, function, one thing that I would definitely want however, is a 1911 style safety.
I think I see how it works. It raises a bar to block the trigger bar from traveling backwards. My eyes tell me you should be able to use whatever spring/connector you want.
I have a couple of glocks, and I shoot them better than the M&P (shoot the 1911s better than any of them:) If Illinois every went CC, I’d still carry the M&P over the glocks d/t to the lack of an affirmative safety on the glocks. Glad to hear there is a viable safety option for the glocks.
I have two G19s and two G34s, all with the Cominolli safety. I installed three myself and had one installed professionally. I used Cominolli’s installation fixture; I recommend using it if you’re installing the safety yourself.
The safeties seem to work fine with the various connector/trigger spring combinations I’ve tried, but i haven’t tried all the available combinations.
The four guns have fired about 5k rds collectively with the safeties installed, with one stovepipe on one G19.
I am an old 1911 shooter with lots of muscle memory to facilitate operating the safety. If I did not have that muscle memory, I would not view the manual safety so positively.
The Cominolli appealed to me because I wanted to reduce the probability of NDs when reholstering and when retrieving the gun from the nightstand drawer in the middle of the night.
The Cominolli is somewhat “mushier” than a properly adjusted 1911 safety, IMO. Fortunately its stiffness can be adjusted to a degree. Initially i had some inadvertent movement of a couple of the safeties; they have been adjusted to be stiffer now, and don’t move unless I move them.
The safety does affect the fit of Kydex holsters; can’t speak for leather. I was easily able to mod my Ravens and Comp-tac to acommodate the safety.
I bought these Glocks and installed the safeties in 2008, before it became clear to me that the M&P would be prove itself to be a reliable durable handgun, and before I even knew of the H&K P30. If I had it to do all over now, I might just go with the M&P, or the H&K P30.
All other things being equal, I prefer not to put non-OEM parts on a defense gun.
I’m of the opinion that if you want a gun with an external thumb safety then you should buy one that comes with that feature from the factory.
and if you really want a glock then you need to become comfortable with it’s lack of an external thumb safety by studying it and becoming intimately familiar with the gun and how it functions. then you won’t shoot yourself in the leg in front of a classroom full of schoolkids and wind up on youtube.
glocks are known for their reliability and are perfectly safe the way they are. best not to go mucking around inside with aftermarket parts that affect the function.
Does anyone else have first person experience with the Cominolli safety, and would like to share their experience with it? The ergonomics of the thumb ledge looks poor.
Since, Glock will add an OEM thumb safety for some agencies, and installation of the Cominolli safety doesn’t void the warranty. Glock apparently doesn’t think there is a reliability issue with it.
I handled a G19 in the shop that had one of these things installed. It wasn’t very refined and it was pretty hard and uncomfortable to engage the safety. The good thing is that it looked easy to remove.
Anyone have any pics of Glocks with these safties installed? The link is not working for me. I don’t want one, I am just curious. I’m perfectly happy with my Glocks from the factory.
Tazmanian Police Glock w/ OEM thumb safety. It could definitely be more refined. A thumb safety would be useful for AWIB or other situations. Having options in never a bad thing.
