Gaston Glock: The Engineer Who Remade the Handgun Industry

Gaston Glock: The Engineer Who Remade the Handgun Industry

Gaston Glock (19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman who founded Glock GmbH in 1963 and spent the first two decades of his career making curtain rods, military knives, and polymer components — not guns. When he fina