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I had a Gen 3 Glock 22 with night sights and a 3.5lb trigger etc. that I had for most of the time I was on active duty... got scared when my two little boys (now 6 & 10) started playing Air Soft "Call of Duty" with the neighbor kids.

Those things look a LOT like my G22 with the exception of the red/orange tip. Long story short, I got rid of it for the same reasons GW discussed earlier... I had the weapon in one spot with a trigger lock, the clips in another and the ammo locked up in a safe elsewhere... "hold on Mr. Intruder, I know you just kicked in my front door but I need a few minutes!" LOL

Didn't make a lot of sense, so I got a Mossberg 500 18" Tactical for my wife (aka Black Betty) and a 590 20" for me... but regretted selling the .40 ever since.

So for Christmas this year, my wife surprised me with a new Gen4 G22! Glock has "blue label" pricing for retired military and police than can't be beat! And Glock got it right with the new Gen4 as it comes with most of the mods everyone was doing to old Gen3s... beavertail backstrap, dual springs for less recoil, etc. I'll just add the Trigicon night sights and the 3.5# or "dot" connector again.

Now our HD is set imo with the G22 in a nightstand drawer safe, loaded up with 3 clips of Critical Defense hollow points and two Mossberg's with Critical Defense 00 @ 1600fps. When my wife hears a noise in the middle of the night, I grab the Glock and she grabs "Black Betty"!

My FIL is a custom home builder btw... in case dry wall repairs are needed after we call 911.