RIP Gaston Glock

[Elkins45]

Gaston Glock is dead at 94. His Glock 17 design radically transformed the handgun market worldwide, and almost single-handedly made polymer and striker fired guns popular. He’s the main reason cops don’t carry revolvers anymore.

People will be shooting themselves in the leg for years to come because of his novel trigger and takedown design. Joking…mostly

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

I'll have to put a box of ammo through my G17 this weekend in his honor.

 

[wpod]

I'll have to put a box of ammo through my G17 this weekend in his honor.

I had the exact same thought .

 

[dnewton3]

RIP
Brilliant design of rugged simplicity meets reliable functionality.

 

[wavinwayne]

Keep 'em in the eternal 10 ring. Not a Glock quote but anyway. RIP

 

[supton]

So does that mean we're no closer to getting our Glock 7?

RIP.

 

[Bighorn2500]

The man revolutionized the pistol market. He didn’t create a beauty queen but he made a very reliable & affordable handgun.

 

[mr_boring]

I am not a Glock fan. They feel like crap in my hand. The compacts are worse than the big ones ergonomically speaking. They are great guns nonetheless. Glock's design may possibly be more influential than JMB's 1911.

 

[Recon 1]

RIP! Great pistol!

 

[wpod]

I am not a Glock fan. They feel like crap in my hand. The compacts are worse than the big ones ergonomically speaking. They are great guns nonetheless. Glock's design may possibly be more influential than JMB's 1911.

Blasphemy !!!

 

[Elkins45]

I understand that instead of a traditional funeral he will be sealed in a black Tupperware box.

 

[Nmr1981]

My buddy interviewed with Glock down in GA many years ago. The HR guy was pleasant and asked, I believe, Gaston if he could take my buddy out for lunch and show him around, and the response was a prompt “NO he will stay here” in a authoritarian Austrian accent. I’ll try to get more details on the story. He had the job but he chose otherwise.

 

[billt460]

The man revolutionized the pistol market. He didn’t create a beauty queen but he made a very reliable & affordable handgun.

He also had a fleet of jet aircraft and helicopters.

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[wings&wheels]

Talented man, and a visionary in more than a few ways.

Funny, I never liked shooting Glocks' trigger, feel, etc., but I seem to always shoot them well...says something about the design.

 

[wpod]

Talented man, and a visionary in more than a few ways.

Funny, I never liked shooting Glocks' trigger, feel, etc., but I seem to always shoot them well...says something about the design.

They work!

 

[wpod]

Every gun aficionado needs at least one high end as possible 1911 and a Glock 17 or 19. Every thing else is extra fluff..