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GASTON GLOCK, businessman and engineer, and the man behind the same-named pistol, died on December 27, 2023, at 94 yea rs of age. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht in the final days leading to the end of World War II. He then studied engineering before founding Glock Ges.m.b.H. with Helga, his first wife, in 1963. It began as a side-business operated in the garage next to his suburban house. They made window hardware, door hinges, and curtain rods in the 1960s. Then they turn ed to making military knives for the Austrian army u in the ’70s, which provided him an und erstanding of cost-saving, computer-aided polymer manufacturing. After overhearing Austrian army colonel s discussing a prospective military contract fo r a…
