The Inside Story Of The 'Glock'

'Glock': The Story Of A Weapon -- Newsday

In 1982, an obscure Austrian engineer named Gaston Glock, who worked in a radiator plant and had a side business with his wife making curtain rods, knives and belt buckles, invented a type of pistol that changed the world of firearms and powerfully influenced politics and popular culture. Glock is now 82, and his surname has become synonymous in some circles with "handgun." Just how a pistol developed by an unknown engineer with little firearms experience became the iconic law enforcement handgun in the United States is the subject of Paul M. Barrett's "Glock."

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My Comment: I test fired a Glock a few years back .... it's true what they say about it. Incredible easy to handle and to use.