That's amazing, it never once occurred to me that Glock was still alive.
It would be like learning Beretta was still alive (but much less likely - founded in 1526 :)
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I had a similar one a few years ago when I'd discovered that Henry Heimlich of manoeuvre fame was still alive. (I checked it again now and he'd died in 2016.)
Didn’t he also need to be given the Heimlich maneuver to save his own life, super ironically?
Is that ironic? Or just coincidence. Let's ask Alanis.
I was reading about this a few months ago. It blew my mind that the Heimlich maneuver didn't exist until the mid 70s. So, what, you just died before that? I guess the only "tool" we had was the ol "reach down their throat with your fingers and try to pull it out manually" technique.
Crazy.
Glock also makes a device to assist with horse insemination.
The more you know 🎵
A new meaning to pop a glock
The glocks are all cocked and ready
Noooooo ooooonnnneee...
Fucks like Gaston
Designs guns like Gaston;
Designs horse jizz injectors for fun like Gaston!
He was exceptionally good at inSEMMMMinating!
He's dead and gone...
GASTOOOOONNNN.
:(
Edit: @Stamets
The Matrix Reloaded? Our of all the options?
That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. Doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines, here, and it costs more than you make in a month.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Its rise was cemented by American pop culture and appearances in Hollywood blockbusters including science-fiction action film The Matrix Reloaded.
In the latter incident, the hired attacker, a professional wrestler, beat him seven times on the head with a rubber mallet but Glock, then 70, fought back and managed to knock out his assailant.
Paul Barrett, the author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, wrote that the weapon had become "the Google of modern civilian handguns: the pioneer brand that defines its product category".
Over the years, gun-control advocates have criticised Glock for popularising a weapon which was easy to conceal, all while holding more ammunition than similar guns.
In 2018, a US Marine Corps veteran with suspected mental health issues killed 12 people in a busy bar in California, including a policeman.
Meanwhile, a US gun company faced backlash for producing a customised Glock pistol that looked like a children's toy made of Lego.
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