Posted: 2/21/2009 7:50:11 PM EDT
| Do you think that one day your kids, kids, will inherit your glock but the plastic will have become too brittle to shoot it? I love Glocks, and have owned several, but I am familiar with plastics and know that eventually they get brittle and break easily. I know I will be long gone, but I hope to leave my collection of firearms to my children, and then their children, so I just wonder what will become of the polymer guns. Please weigh in on your opinion. |
| I work with plastics, too, but I'm not a chemist nor a materials guy. However, my guess would be that the fillers they use (glass, etc.) will give the plastic long-term retention of physical properties. Generally, plastics won't spontaneously degrade - it usually needs some type of exposure to an external element to cause a breakdown - UV, ozone, chemicals, etc. |