glock

Back in 1981 Glock was producing plastic grenade shells for the Austrian army, in addition to plastic curtain-rod rings. One day he overheard two colonels complain that no gun existed that could meet their specifications. When Glock offered to make one, they laughed at him.

"You do not laugh at Mr. Glock," says Christopher Edwards, the burly former deputy sheriff of Jefferson County, Kentucky, who now runs Glock's training program in Smyrna, Georgia. "He takes that personally."

Glock never doubted he could make a superior gun. "That I knew nothing was my advantage," he says.

-------gaston glock
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