The pistol that Haines Borough police officer Brayton Long unintentionally shot himself with in January is a model that’s been involved in a high number of accidental shootings involving police since its embrace by departments 25 years ago.
Critics of the Glock semi-automatic say its lack of an external safety, a light-pressure trigger, lack of a magazine safety and a design that requires pulling the trigger to disassemble it for cleaning make the gun inherently…