2023/12/28 09:16
Clark pistols are popular around the world and are loved by military and police forces in various countries. Gaston Clark, the founder of the Clark company, passed away on the 27th at the age of 94. (Associated Press)
Huang Qihao/Verification Editor
[Real-time News/Comprehensive Report]The Clark series of pistols produced by the Austrian military supplies company “Clark” are internationally famous and purchased by countries around the world. They are one of the best-selling pistols in the world. However, news of the death of Gaston Glock, the founder of the “Clark” company, was reported on the 27th. He died at the age of 94.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Clark founded “Clark Company” in 1963 to produce various metal products, and began manufacturing various military supplies in the 1970s. In 1980, the Austrian military was looking for a new type of firearm. Clark convened a team of experts to design the “Clark 17” pistol. Since the “Clark 17” mainly used plastic polymers as the gun body material, the innovative design made the “Clark 17” better than other manufacturers at the time. The pistol is lighter, cheaper and more reliable.
According to Clark Company statistics, between 1982 and 1984 alone, it delivered more than 25,000 pistols to the Austrian military. Later, it became popular around the world and was loved by military and police forces in various countries. The Clark Company wrote on its official website that Gaston Clark not only changed the small arms market in the 1980s, but also successfully built “Clark” into the global leader in handgun products.
Clark pistols have sold well all over the world and have been featured in many movies and even been mentioned in rap songs. During the 2003 Iraq War, U.S. soldiers discovered the fleeing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in a tunnel. Hussein had a Clark pistol hidden on her body. Later, the pistol was intended to be transferred to then U.S. President George Bush. W. Bush).
Despite his great success in the arms market, Clark himself rarely gives interviews, avoids public debates, and rarely responds to criticism from anti-gun activists; in 2000, he refused to sign a voluntary gun control agreement with the United States.
Clark survived a murder in 1999, when Charles Ewert, the investment manager who managed his assets, hired a wrestler to try to murder Clark with a rubber mallet. Clark was hit on the head seven times and still survived. Both Ewart and the murderer were imprisoned after the incident. The Austrian News Agency reported that Clark passed away on the 27th of this month at the age of 94.
Despite his huge success in the arms market, Clark rarely gives interviews, avoids public debate and rarely responds to criticism from anti-gun activists. (AFP)
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