Hey Morgan,

Today at the range, I was showing one of my buddies how to shoot my glock (G23). He initially was limp-wristing the gun and it ended-up jamming on him a couple of times. Since this hasn’t happened with me, I had never thought about it, but can a gun jam damage your gun in anyway? I’ve never heard of such a hing, but was just curious.
Thanks,

Ethan

Ethan,

 
You’ve asked a very important question.  Fortunately, letting a friend shoot your Glock is not like teaching your teenage son to drive your standard-transmission car. 
 
When your Glock has a failure due to limp-wristing, worn-out Recoil Spring, dragging the thumb on the Slide, under-powered round or the like, the only parts that are inappropriately contacting are going to be the extremely tough steel and the very soft brass or lead of the ammo.  When your gun has a failure due to improper assembly such as Slide Stop Lever Spring misplacement, rail misalignment, or forgetting to put the Guide-Rod Recoil Spring Assembly in, your Glock will let you know right away, that something is wrong.  If you start replacing stock components with third-party products, get crazy polishing Trigger Bars and Feed Ramps or attack your Glock with a soldering iron your probability of damaging your Glock goes up, but is still very low and almost always easily reversible.  Maybe not the soldering iron part.  Glocks are simple and tough.  Stock parts are cheap and plentiful.
 
So, to answer your question, No, exposing your Glock to your friend’s poor shooting technique will not damage your pistol.  Unless that technique includes running it over with a Hummer…. and even then, you’re probably just fine.
 
Hope this helps,
Morgan

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