Glock was designed by a man who had never designed a gun.
Gaston Glock was an Austrian curtain-rod maker who had not handled a gun since his teens. In 1980, Austria’s army wanted a new pistol. He gave his a polymer frame where every rival’s was steel, and in 1982 it beat Europe’s established gunmakers for the army’s order. The pistol made him a billionaire.
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