Gaston Glock, the Austrian engineer who invented the Glock handgun, has died aged 94.
The Glock company said in a statement that its founder’s life’s work would “continue in his spirit”.
The weapon has been used by armed forces, security personnel, gun owners and criminals around the world.
Its rise was cemented by American pop culture and appearances in Hollywood blockbusters including science-fiction action film The Matrix Reloaded.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Its rise was cemented by American pop culture and appearances in Hollywood blockbusters including science-fiction action film The Matrix Reloaded.
In the latter incident, the hired attacker, a professional wrestler, beat him seven times on the head with a rubber mallet but Glock, then 70, fought back and managed to knock out his assailant.
Paul Barrett, the author of Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, wrote that the weapon had become “the Google of modern civilian handguns: the pioneer brand that defines its product category”.
Over the years, gun-control advocates have criticised Glock for popularising a weapon which was easy to conceal, all while holding more ammunition than similar guns.
In 2018, a US Marine Corps veteran with suspected mental health issues killed 12 people in a busy bar in California, including a policeman.
Meanwhile, a US gun company faced backlash for producing a customised Glock pistol that looked like a children’s toy made of Lego.
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That’s amazing, it never once occurred to me that Glock was still alive.
It would be like learning Beretta was still alive (but much less likely - founded in 1526 :)
I had a similar one a few years ago when I’d discovered that Henry Heimlich of manoeuvre fame was still alive. (I checked it again now and he’d died in 2016.)
Didn’t he also need to be given the Heimlich maneuver to save his own life, super ironically?
I was reading about this a few months ago. It blew my mind that the Heimlich maneuver didn’t exist until the mid 70s. So, what, you just died before that? I guess the only “tool” we had was the ol “reach down their throat with your fingers and try to pull it out manually” technique.
Crazy.
Glock also makes a device to assist with horse insemination.
The more you know 🎵
The Matrix Reloaded? Our of all the options?
Noooooo ooooonnnneee…
Fucks like Gaston
Designs guns like Gaston;
Designs horse jizz injectors for fun like Gaston!
He was exceptionally good at inSEMMMMinating!
He’s dead and gone…
GASTOOOOONNNN.
:(
Edit: @Stamets
