It’s not a criticism. Gaston deserves full credit for his achievements. The Glock pistol yes but his greatest talent was his business acumen. Very different from the inventiveness of John M. Browning.

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Exactly. And Browning didn't have modern polymers, computers, and someone else's (his) operating system to tweak. How many of us have asked, where is the Glock PCC or EBR? Browning did all that and more with cartridge designs, shotguns, machine guns, rifles, etc. And this without the engineers Glock used to help him win the Austrian contract.


Glock built a better mousetrap with modern technology but he "perfected" a design Browning pioneered with a slide ruler and a pencil. You have to wonder what JMB could do today if he were still alive?

John M Browning was a genius, but he didn't make or finish everything himself. He was an inventor and sold his inventions and manufacturing to Winchester, Colt, Frankfort-Arsenal and FN-Herstal where engineers developed the guns to production readiness.
Gaston Glock was just another engineer who took the basic concept a step further. Similar groundbreaking developments before him were made at intervals by Dieudonné Saive, Charles Petter and Walter Ludwig. Gaston Glock was not only an engineer but a businessman as well, with the right marketing people to make him famous and successful. As such, he didn't actually find much. The concept of the Glock pistol has many fathers such as Roth, Ludwig, Petter, Webley and Browning. His contribution to its success was the combination of their elements and, as his invention, the connection between barrel and slide.

The only "moustrap" he invented and sold under his name was the Model 1878 sporting rifle.