Hi guys. Just bought a Glock 19 a couple weeks ago and it is my first gun! So I'm pretty excited about it 
Anyway, I got it for a number of reasons: home defense, personal protection, range use and shooting practice, plus I just think guns are cool and enjoy looking at it.
I have the gun lock included with the Glock obviously, the one that's kind of like a chain coated in red plastic. The directions tell me to run the lock through the magazine well and out the top of my slide with the slide locked, as I'm sure everyone that owns a Glock knows. This requires me to remove the magazine from my gun.
I like to keep my gun locked when I have it at home because I live with kids, but I REALLY do not like the added action of inserting a magazine after removing the lock. If an emergency situation happened at home and I needed to react quickly, that's just one extra action to take.
Lately, I've been running it through the barrel and out the slide. This allows me to keep a magazine fully loaded with GoldDot hollow points. Is that bad for the inside of the barrel? Will the gun lock hurt the rifling in any way? I know I'm only supposed to run the cleaning tool in one direction and that's plastic bristles, so I worry about the metal end of the gun lock.
If that isn't recommended... is there a better more "action ready" gun lock anyone can recommend? Hell, recommend it anyway even if what I'm doing is perfectly okay.
Thanks!
-DT
Anyway, I got it for a number of reasons: home defense, personal protection, range use and shooting practice, plus I just think guns are cool and enjoy looking at it.
I have the gun lock included with the Glock obviously, the one that's kind of like a chain coated in red plastic. The directions tell me to run the lock through the magazine well and out the top of my slide with the slide locked, as I'm sure everyone that owns a Glock knows. This requires me to remove the magazine from my gun.
I like to keep my gun locked when I have it at home because I live with kids, but I REALLY do not like the added action of inserting a magazine after removing the lock. If an emergency situation happened at home and I needed to react quickly, that's just one extra action to take.
Lately, I've been running it through the barrel and out the slide. This allows me to keep a magazine fully loaded with GoldDot hollow points. Is that bad for the inside of the barrel? Will the gun lock hurt the rifling in any way? I know I'm only supposed to run the cleaning tool in one direction and that's plastic bristles, so I worry about the metal end of the gun lock.
If that isn't recommended... is there a better more "action ready" gun lock anyone can recommend? Hell, recommend it anyway even if what I'm doing is perfectly okay.
Thanks!
-DT