Gaston Glock is an Austria

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, and founder of the firearms company Glock. The Glock "safe-action" pistol

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 is well regarded and has often been copied by other companies. The process of producing the Glock pistol includes the application of Tenifer, a patented metal treatment that hardens the slide and barrel.

Glock has three children out of his former marriage with Helga Glock. He divorced and married 31-year old Kathrin Tschikof, manager of the Glock Horse Performance Center, in 2011.
In July 1999 Charles Ewert, a business associate of Glock, hired a French ex-mercenary to murder Glock (who was 70 years old at that time) with a mallet in a garage in Luxembourg

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in an apparent attempt to cover up embezzlement of millions from the Glock company.

Although Glock's injuries included seven head wounds and the loss of about a litre of blood, Glock was able to fend off the attack by striking the hitman twice.