Buying brand name guns is usually the way to go, but you never know when you might get a dud. I like how light it is, and how many accessories are made for it. Though being my first purchase of this brand it did not sit well with me when I started having problems with it. A new gun should not act up unless abused, by not cleaning it, storing it well or by using bad ammo. Though this gun had none of those issues, so it was very strange it would not be reliable.
Bought brand new gun a few years back, and start having issues with it immediately. It would jam randomly, sometimes after a single shot, other times after many. I never took it apart so was not sure what was wrong with. I actually got a completely different carry pistol since this one was so unreliable. When I would tell people my brand new Glock jams they were all taken a back, I guess this is not common. We thought maybe I was using bad ammo, or something else was going on with it.
His good pistol on the left, mine on the right.
A good friend of mine needed some work, so I paid him to clean all my guns. @lost.ryulincoln will be making posts about my guns he cleaned soon enough. I am helping him get started on Hive. While he was taking apart my 9mm Glock Gen 4 he noticed something a miss. He has one too though it shoots a larger round than mine. But the design is mostly the same, so he removed his slide and compared it to mine and we saw a big difference right away. Seems there is a rod on the pistol that is bent. Mine is on the right and his is on the left.
We are unsure of what this part does, but it could explain its jamming issues.
Looks like I will be taking a trip to the Glock factory in Smyrna, or possibly just mailing it in. Hoping I can get it all fixed so it will be a good carry pistol. Though my .357 King Cobra will do great until then.
If you are into gun cleaning videos, hunting and other outdoor related content follow @lost.ryulincoln as he will be releasing more content very soon. He cleaned all my pistols and rifles, recorded himself while cleaning and talks about them. Should make for some great videos when he gets around to editing them all.
EDIT: thank you to everyone that pointed out what that part is called. I googled bent ejector and sure enough it's part of the design. I greatly appreciate the replies and for @papacrusher pointing out that it could be normal to have that bend in the ejector.