Posted on 10/11/2014 7:57:39 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
King Lear, strippers, and show horses: Inside the $500 million lawsuit that could bring down Gaston Glock’s gun empire.
Guns, money, sex, and betrayal: Rarely do the news gods smile down on us with such charity. But Helga Glock, ex-wife to Gaston Glock Sr., the gun industry’s most successful and secretive tycoon, has given us all that and then some with a new lawsuit filed in an Atlanta federal court earlier this week.
In the complaint—filed in Georgia, where the Austrian company’s U.S. headquarters is based and most of its business conducted—Mrs. Glock’s attorney accuses the 85-year-old gun manufacturer of a racketeering scheme that spanned decades and the globe, all in an elaborate plan to steal the business that Mrs. Glock and the rest of their family had helped to build from a mom-and-pop machine shop into a company with $400 million in sales each year. An enterprise so successful—it supplies U.S. police with two-thirds of their firearms and dominates the civilian market—that Mr. Glock’s criminal dealings have cheated her out of around $500 million, the suit claims, making the case one of the largest civil suits ever under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.
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I own several and am an essential part of the guns safety.
He told her he had an 8-inch Glock.
So if I tell the girls I have a MAC10.....
Sounds like the stroke caused him to completely lose his mind. A complete ass for cutting out his wife....who had been with him since the early ‘60’s. Cutting out your children and grandchildren? Insane. Even Trump didn’t do that.
“So if I tell the girls I have a MAC10..... “
It helps if, when pulling something out of your pocket, you “accidentally” drop a Magnum Condom.
Perhaps I'm misreading your post but it sounds like you're saying that you carry a 1911 with a round chambered and hammer down:"..I must pull the hammer back to make it fire. This is not safe.
The 1911 should be carried in condition 1: Hammer cocked safety on if a round is in the chamber.
Forgive me If I misinterpreted what you were trying to say but for the benefit of others here's a link to the proper way to carry a 1911.
I believe the newer Brownings HP have a firing block so hammer resting on a live round shouldn't be a problem.
Most excellent! Well done!
I have a Glock 20 with an aftermarket barrel, (EFK barrel), reliable, not quite as accurate as upper end 1911’s I own, but more accurate than most “out of the box” 1911’s. I owned a public shooting range for a number of years, have had the opportunity to fire and own most readily available guns. The Glock is very good choice for the money. There is nothing wrong with having the safety lever located in the trigger. Less to go wrong when under stress, IMHO, folks just have to learn to “keep the booger hook off the bang switch” until ready to shoot.
The very first pistol I ever fired was a Colt 1911 that I was issued at Military Police School, Fort Gordon Georgia in the Spring of 1969.
This weapon was older than I was. It barely had any visible rifling left in the barrel. The slide was loose to the point that it could be moved manually from side to side. The serial number had almost been cleaned off the gun.
(OK - I exaggerated a wee bit about the serial number.)
Nonetheless, it fired when asked and hit what I pointed it at. Together that pistol and I shot “Sharpshooter” (One little point off of “Expert.”) in a company that only saw a handful even qualify.
Today the family is standardized on Walther. We had four of them before the boating accident. But I have never found a weapon as simple to shoot and easy to understand and maintain as that old Colt 1911.
I once toyed with the idea of getting a Glock. So I did some reading and then studied diagrams of its proprietary “safety” system. What came to mind immediately were the words of Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus - “Too many notes.”
Our home is and will remain a “Glock Free Zone.”
For something smaller, the Makarov is a nice pistol.
An important post. Thank you. At some point if you care to I would like to know why you say you are “not a fan” of the Glock. For me, I am turning to revolvers. I have no interest in my Beretta automatic and my next CC weapon I think will be one of the new Titanium .357 revolvers. I am simply turning away from safety issues and “condition” questions that are not applicable to a piece that lives in a drawer or on my belt. So do please ping me when you speak out.
Virtually *all* the accidental discharge stories that I have followed withMy experience running training is quite similar to yours with the slight edit made above. Violations of Rule-3 are equal-opportunity offenders regardless of the gun make/model.Glocksfirearms are because someone had a finger on the trigger, or some other object was inside the trigger guard and activated the trigger.
I know a lot of folks love em.
My “not a fan of Glock” feeling can be summed up in a word: Ergonomics. They are just not made for my hands. I am a little guy with small hands. I grew up with a 1911 issued from the Ship’s Armory hanging on my hip and adapted well to them. I do like the S&W M&P’s and have one in .45acp. I also live for an N-Frame Smith in my hand.
Other than ergo issues, I don’t like snotty-ass Euros and Gaston Glock was definitely one. That in itself is enough for me the provincial flag-waving American, fly-over simpleton that I am.
Revolvers are often overlooked by those who would benefit from them the most: Those who carry occasionally and/or shoot even less. A good revolver is rugged, intuitive, easy to operate and dependable. What’s not to love? Capacity? I often carry a stripper with extra food in a front pocket. Solved. Practice a little and fast reloads are achievable.
If I dropped a Magnum Condom, my wife would say, “What’s that? A raincoat for one of your rifles?”
Love it. Thanks for the smiles.
2 “And shouldst thou muck with it, and hang all manner of foul implements upon it, and profane its internal parts, thou shalt surely have malfunctions, and in the midst of battle thou shalt surely come to harm.”
The first “mucking about with” the design, as I recall, was whne the Army insisted on a having a grip safety on the 1911...
Who’s going to be happy about this?
I really like active safeties and successfully fought of the urge to get a Glock until about four years ago. Then I borrowed a Glock for a month. I now have a Glock. It is an ugly pistol (beautiful and Glock cannot be used in the same sentence unless the word "not" is inserted somewhere), but it is probably the most reliable pistol ever made and it is almost indestructible. There are Glocks that have well over 100,000 rounds through them and are still going strong without any repair or parts replacement.
I agree on the Mak.
Sometimes it’s just too hard to conceal a full size pistol.
I picked up a relatively cheap FEG PA63 in Mak caliber and it fits in a pants pocket easily and unobtrusively. CZ makes a really good Mak knockoff as well, Model 82. If you can find one.
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