The opening chapters of Peter Alan Kasler’s Glock: The New Wave in Combat Handguns offer a company-authorized account of Glock’s early years. Walter Rauch, “Glock: Gun of the Future,” Glock Autopistols (2002), pp. 76–79, provides another concise history as the company would have it told. Peter G. Kokalis’s article “Plastic Perfection,” Soldier of Fortune, October 1984, helped introduce Glock to American gun buyers. These reference books also have useful background, although some of it is technical: Patrick Sweeney, The Gun Digest Book of the Glock and The Complete Glock Reference Guide (Ptooma Productions, 3d edition, 2006). I have drawn on a helpful (and rare) interview of Gaston Glock published by Forbes on March 31, 2003, entitled “Top Gun,” by Dyan Machan.