I've just received word that Gaston Glock died this morning. He was 86. I don't know why yet, but he's had several strokes in the past so it doesn't come as a surprise. It's 6am here in Austria so expect the official news in a few hours.
Rest in piece friend. In remembrance, post your Glock pistols.
>>30195134
Oh god no.
Pls noooooo
Post a source or gtfo
Source?
>>30195134
Source you fucking faggot
I love his guns, but I heard he was kind of a prick to work for. I briefly was looking into an IT position at glock and I was reading reviews and a lot of them said he ran that company with an iron fist, even micromanaging low level web devs and shit.
Anyways, RIP. Just picked up a G19 Friday.
>>30195173
>>30195175
>>30195178
I cannot give a source now. Like I said, you have to wait a few hours for official reports. I am just an acquaintance of his family.
>>30195134
RIP in peace.
>>30195200
Well if it's true it's a sad day. But I'm gonna have to wait for official news.
>>30195216
>>30195178
>>30195175
>>30195173
You guys really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies like that with the hopes of riling people up?
>>30195200
So.... You're lying. It's nothing.
>This just in. OP literally cannot stop sucking cocks!
>>30195226
>trolling on 4chan
Yea that never happens, r-right guys???
You'd better be b8ing!
>>30195134
Imaginary & homosexual.
>>30195226
Glock himself isn't a particularly well-liked man... He's been known to be a dick and very slow to change. If anything you'd think most of /k/ would be excited for the potentially new direction the company would take. I wouldn't think anybody would cry about Gaston's death.
>>30195200
This could be legendary lads.
You must have resisted the urge to make glocknade memes in front of them for so long.
Welp, you can beat the shit out of ex south african spec ops assassins, but you can't beat the shit out of time.
>>30195253
Now, if only he was actually dead.
In related news, If only OP wasn't a cum guzzling cock gobbler.
>>30195233
I mean, it is a pretty odd/random thing to just make up.
Outside of gun circles (hell, maybe even in gun a lot of gun circles) this guy is a total unknown. I'll wait for source of course, but the dude is old as shit and it wouldn't surprise me.
>>30195255
OP is a Poofter McFag-Nasty. He won't resist anything.
>>30195274
No. See>>30195226
>>30195274
>I mean, it is a pretty odd/random thing to just make up
not for /k/.
>>30195274
Pic related.
OP here, I understand you guys don't believe me. I wouldn't believe something like this from /k/ either. I'm just giving you a heads up. Feel free to keep calling me an ejaculate-enthusiast if it makes you feel better.
>>30195324
Cock connoisseur
>>30195324
OP you should have timestamp somehow in the original post.
Then if you were right you would be legendary.
inb4 glawkfags pander pre-death glocks at a hueg 30% markup because the company will somehow "turn to shit" like pre/post german sigs
>>30195371
>30% markup
>post sandy hook
>huge
That's like a normal price for all gun retailers now.
>>30195205
the 43 is a POS, 26 is better.
>>30195404
>the 43 is a POS
but muh Glock Classic "5.5lb"® 8lb trigger
>>30195324
Timestamp with corpse.
>>30195391
I'm talking about fuckbois who will list beat to shit gen3 g19 for $700 because "m-muh pre-death" like pic related I found on my local gun forum
I guess autism has no bounds these days
>>30195404
How does a 26 feel in large hands? I've never shot one.
I have a 43 and it's a good gun but that is the most uncomfortable gun I've ever shot and my groupings with it look like I was tweaking out on meth or something while shooting.
>>30195274
>forgetting your on 4chan
>>30195505
I have large hands and it feels good mane.
>>30195537
Forgetting his what?
>>30195505
The 26 feels like shooting a normal size block because it's slightly thicker, but just as concealable and 4 more rounds.
>>30195468
Kek, you mean to tell me here are faggots out there who think the gun's value goes up after the death of the founder/invented like art?
>>30195584
>he won't buy a pre-death Glock at 350% markup
Look at this anti-gunner!
>>30195584
I just got back from the pawn ship, I bought up all the glocks they had which were 5 of them.
You might be laughing now, but give it a few months and I'll be lmaoing
"Where is my porcelain Glock 7, shithead?"
>>30195134
It's about time that shitty fascist died.
Fuck Glocks.
>>30195134
This wasn't supposed to happen: he was supposed to live long enough for us to master consciousness transfer so he could design the 86 plasma pistol!
>>30195324
Timestamp corpse or provide reputable sauce or forever be deemed the mark of a faggot like every other OP had been marked before
RIP in peace, baby doc
Assuming this is true, I don't get the fervor desu. Glocks are cool and all but he was basically coasting along on the same design since the 80s, with only small variances. Compared to Stoner or Browning, who made all sorts of designs throughout their lives, or Kalashnikov who applied his AR design to LMGs and shotguns and even played around with recoil mitigation in his later years, Glock just isn't that impressive.
I mean, RIP and all, but meh.
Didn't some guy try to murder him with a hammer and the old boy beat the fuck out of him with his bear hands?
>>30195134
>death from glock 80
dis mah probbem sova
>>30197678
Like someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, hopefully this means a new direction for glock. A rifle would be interesting! Hell, they could start up a poly furniture division to compete with magpul.
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>>30195639
>cheaperTHENdirt
kek
It's 4:47pm in Austria now, shouldn't we have heard something?
I wish he would have designed some more guns.
Every glock is essentially the same firearm.
>>30198289
No.
>died of spontaneous human explosion
He will be missed.
>>30195134
>Gaston Glock dead
High Time it would have been. Mabye Glock will finally do interesting stuff once he's dead. Shame OP is a lying faggot.
>>30195134
Good, Glocks are fucking poorfag trash anyway
Gaston Glock's Life-Threatening Illness Threatens Gun Empire
The ailing mogul is battling his wife and children in court, and control of the Glock gun empire is at stake
February 17, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-17/gaston-glock-s-life-threatening-illness-threatens-gun-empire
As he battles his ex-wife in court over hundreds of millions of dollars and control of the world's most influential handgun manufacturer, 85-year-old firearm mogul Gaston Glock is also struggling with life-threatening ailments.
That's the take-away from a recent federal court filing in Atlanta in Glock's legal shootout with his former wife, Helga. The Feb. 13 filing by Helga Glock's lawyers alludes to the postponement of an Oct. 24, 2014, court hearing in Gaston Glock's native Austria due to the industrialist'shospitalization for an "acute infection with decompensation of the cardiovascular system and the renal system." The U.S. filing also refers to a Jan. 15, 2015, deposition of Glock in Austria that had to be halted after two hours "because of his worsening health condition."
The Glocks are tussling in courts in Austria and the U.S. as part of the fallout from their rancorous 2011 divorce. In a civil suitfiled in October in Atlanta, Helga Glock accused her ex-husband—whose eponymous companysupplies firearms to two-thirds of U.S. police departments and millions of individual American consumers—of money laundering and racketeering. The suit invokes the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and seeks $500 million, plus unspecified punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.
cont.
>>30198798
Gaston Glock denies wrongdoing and has accused his ex-wife and three adult children of trying to make off with wealth he has accumulated legitimately since he introduced the large-capacity black-plastic semiautomatic Glock pistol in the early 1980s.
Helga Glock's lawyers cited Gaston Glock's faltering health as a reason that he should be compelled to sit for a sworn deposition in the RICO case before he becomes physically unable to do so. Gaston Glock's "illness or death during the pendancy of this litigation would prejudice Ms. Glock though the loss of critical evidence," her lawyers said in the Feb. 13 filing. Attorneys for Helga Glock, 78, said in the filing that because of her own ill health, she, too, ought to be deposed so that all relevant testimony would be preserved.
The prospect that both Glocks might not be long for this world raises the question of who would control the family-owned (albeit hotly disputed) pistol-manufacturing empire. For years, gun industry executives have speculated that the Glock brand would be a prized acquisition for a more diversified arms company. As long as Gaston Glock is alive, however, it has been assumed that his company isn't for sale.
cont.
>>30198811
The Glock courtroom feud features allegations of fraud and concealment of gun profits. Helga Glock claims her ex-husband stole her share of a company they built together over the decades. The litigation also raises broader public policy issues, not least whether closely held Glock GmbH and its U.S. subsidiary, Glock Inc., represent the sort of companies to which U.S. municipalities, federal law enforcement agencies, and military units ought to direct millions of dollars a year in taxpayer funds.
Lawyers representing Glock Inc. and its affiliates have asserted that the firearm empire follows all relevant tax laws and operates ethically worldwide. Gaston Glock revolutionized the handgun market when his reliable, reasonably priced, and simply designed pistol caught on in the U.S., beginning in the late 1980s.My 2012book,GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun, told the story in full. Last September,Bloomberg Businessweekpublished anarticlebased on my interviews in Vienna with Helga Glock and her children, in which they provided what amounted to a preview of the RICO suit.
Gaston Glock divorced his wife of nearly 50 years in 2011 and has since married a woman a half-century his junior. The divorce followed a stroke Glock suffered in 2008. He has since been in fragile health.
FIN
>>30197768
When Glock was 70 a business partner hired a 67 year old French ex-merc to kill him. The merchandise attacked Glock with a mallet and got a few good hits in but Glock beat the shit out of him with his bare hands.
>>30198289
OP is a faggot , Glock isn't dead
