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WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 3

By Ottilie Kestenholz · 4 parts · 15 h 35 min · English

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Deutsch-Wagram, Austria, 1980. A fifty-one-year-old manufacturer of curtain rods, field knives and entrenching tools hears that the Austrian army wants a new service pistol, and enters a competition he has no business entering: he has never designed a firearm and does not shoot. Two years later his pistol beats Heckler & Koch, SIG, Beretta and Steyr in the army trial, and within a decade it is the standard sidearm of American police. This is an account of how an outsider with a plastics press and seventeen patents built the most widely copied handgun of the century, what the object was specified to do, and what it was then used for by people who never appeared in the specification. Covers Gaston Glock and Glock.

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  1. Part 01

    3:32:23

  2. Part 02

    4:16:31

  3. Part 03

    3:53:23

  4. Part 04

    3:52:55

Books in this series

  1. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 1

    4 parts · 15 h 22 min

  2. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 47 min

  3. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 35 min

  4. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 27 min

  5. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 9 min

  6. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 6

    4 parts · 17 h 45 min