"Gaston Glock arrived in Luxenberg in July 1999 for an urgent talk with the shell company artist Charles eart eward picked up Glock personally at the airport before proceeding to their meeting he sugge..."

"to you about today which is Glock the rise of America's gun and is written by Paul Barrett I was not expecting to do this book this week this book wasn't even on my radar until like a week or two ago ..."

"doors and windows he also made a bunch of sh curtain rods over time the side business slowly expands and this is one of the most important um ideas in the book and that is to always do the best with t..."

"was something far beyond his experience he asked the colonels to describe the Army's requirements for a new handgun and I just love his mindset here he's like well this shouldn't be too difficult to m..."

"available at the time and I tried to involve into conversation the best experts I knew so he contacts a bunch of experts in the firearm industry he invites them he has a meeting with them there's two ..."

"also told Glock that the pistol should be able to withstand extended contact with snow ice and mud it should fire 10 it should be able to fire 10,000 rounds with no more than one failure per thousand ..."

"the sake of it and retention of total control to this day the Glock family owns the company Glock is obsessed with control just like d James Dyson was if you don't know what I'm talking about uh liste..."

"designed a a wheelbarrow with instead of a wheel had a ball and he got so much more attention than other people trying to build wheel bears that all look the same that he applied that idea about 10 or..."

"the early days Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication that of course is Leonardo Da Vinci because of the unfussy way the simple way Gaston Glock fabricated his slide his pistol required fewer steps..."

"high powerered rifles and so you have military and law enforcement officials all over the country and all over the world trying to get better guns that could hold more rounds and were more reliable an..."

"familiarity with America become in the space of a few years an American icon the answer to that question is distribution and a lot of this is going to be media driven and media begets more media so fi..."

"could convert US police departments from revolvers to pistols and there's all these news stories about the cop in in in the 1980s being outgunned by other people not you know having six shots their th..."

"Market why a gun that looked so strange deserved a chance and so he brings with him this guy that runs this magazine this really influential magazine at the time called Soldier of Fortune and so he sa..."

"along to the US Department of Defense those two organizations are both going to be future customers of Glock so then what happens next American defense procurement officials invite Glock to compete in..."

"company that's going to essentially he just created a money printing machine and and this paragraph is really the benefit of a product with fewer moving parts and a company with fewer moving Parts uh ..."

"looks so differently somebody writes they're mistaken they thought they somebody wrote an article I think it was like the Washington Post or something like oh my God this this gun is all plastic like ..."

"agencies poured in in 1986 alone so you're not selling one or two uh guns right this is another part of um his distribution strategy is you could sell to Consumers but they might buy one or two or wha..."

"Walter began putting some of the country's most admired shooting instructors on contract that's the influencer marking part part of it to spread the word about the Austrian pistol this melding of trai..."