Today, at the end of the year, the news of Gaston Glock's passing hit us suddenly. He was the founder of the Glock GmbH company, which started with the production of simple metal and plastic products.

Gaston Glock, the company's founder and pistol designer, was born on July 19, 1929. He was an Austrian engineer and entrepreneur. The company was established in the 1960s and started with the production of curtain rods and knives. Mr. Glock first started designing firearms at the age of 52.

The company and its owner became famous all over the world when a gun of his design, the world's first one with a polymer frame, won a competition for a new gun for the Austrian army in the early 1980s. It was the famous, iconic Glock 17.

Glock 17 first generation - the gun that made the company and its designer famous

Since then, five generation of this gun have been made along with dozens of variations differing in caliber, size and accessories.

Gaston Glock died at the age of 94.