Genius Behind Famous Glock Handgun Dead at 94: He ‘Revolutionized the World of Small Arms’

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An Austrian engineer has left behind a legacy of empowering Americans in the exercise of their constitutional right to self-defense.

The Associated Press reported that Gaston Glock, developer of the Glock handgun and founder of the company that manufactures it, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94.

According to the company website, its late founder “revolutionized the world of small arms.”

Glock founded his company near Vienna in 1963.

In response to the Austrian Defense Ministry’s call for a lighter, safer and more efficient personal defense handgun, Glock developed a semi-automatic pistol and delivered more than 25,000 to the Austrian military in the early 1980s, according to the AP.

Glock’s major innovation consisted in keeping everything simple.

“Mr. Glock understood that reliability resides in simplicity, and therefore, he designed his pistol with as few parts as possible, minimizing its complexity,” the Glock website explains.

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