Gaston Glock, the reclusive engineer and tycoon who developed one of the world's best-selling handguns, died on Wednesday aged 94, Austrian news agency APA ...
Austrian gun engineer and entrepreneur Gaston Glock has died at the age of 94. His company announced the news on Wednesday 27 December 2023.
A reclusive Austrian billionaire, he created the handgun worn by two-thirds of America's police officers and the security forces of at least 48 countries.
A picture from September 4, 2003 shows Austrian engineer Gaston Glock at an event in Velden, Carinthia, Austria. Glock, whose eponymous Glock pistol ...
Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, died on Wednesday.
The Glock has been the weapon of choice for armed forces, gun owners and criminals around the world.
His gun, wielded by police and outlaws alike, certainly made its mark worldwide, matched by few other weapons.
Gaston Glock, the reclusive engineer and tycoon who developed one of the world's best-selling handguns, died on Wednesday aged 94.
The billionaire survived an attempted assassination in 1999, when one of his closest financial advisors hired a hitman to attack him with a rubber mallet in ...
The Glock Company originally produced military knives and consumer goods, before Gaston Glock engineered the Glock-17 pistol.
Gaston Glock, the Austrian engineer who invented the boxy Glock handgun, which has become a weapon of choice for national security forces, law enforcement ...