Weapon of Choice (2018) - full transcript

Iraq. October 2014.

The first rainstorm

since ISIS fighters captured
large areas of Syria and Iraq.

There's fighting 30 km from my hotel.

The Americans are bombing again.

An Austrian invention has brought me here.

The object is prized worldwide,

even revered as a cult object.

Here in Iraq, too.

In Austria, however,
little is known about it.

The death trade takes place
behind closed doors.



Yeah, for those who never used Glocks,
it's just a pistol.

For me, it's something very unique.
It's special.

Those who use Glocks,
they know what Glock means.

One of the favorites.
They never stop, they never get rusty.

They never stop, they never...
you know, fail you down.

Yeah, on a daily basis,
you deal with this piece,

you become a friend
that you cannot give up.

Like me and you now.
We just met today. Maybe if we,

you know, meet again, like,
a few more times, we become friends.

This is what it is
with me and this Glock here.

Yeah. It's been about an hour
since we met today.

It's the same thing with this.

The longer you use it,
the longer you stay with it,

the more attracted
you will be with this piece.



The weapon of choice was

that favorite gun of drug traffickers
and others bent on mass violence...

...he's a gangster. 

In my true honest words,
karma is a bitch.

It will cost you your life, eventually.

It's like the mafia. You can join,
but it's a capital offense to leave.

I felt compelled to call you
all together here now.

Number one,
our right of speech and religion,

then, number two, our right to bear arms.

A nine-millimeter Glock
semi-automatic pistol.

Whatever you do when trying
to establish a gun connection,

never be too direct.

Stop violence!

Stop violence!

Increase peace!

Stop violence!

There's power in the name of Jesus.

It swept the military
and law enforcement worlds in 1984,

after it was first introduced
by an Austrian firm

previously known for cutlery.

The factory and the gun
are both called Glock.

Then, when we'll reassemble it,

we'll put the barrel back in,

make sure it's flat in there.

You gotta take the spring, you're gonna
push the spring in a little bit,

make sure it's parallel with the slide.

Then, you're gonna take the slide
and put it on the lower frame,

starting at the front,
all the way to the back,

pull straight back.

And that is your reassembly
of the Glock firearm.

We're a small store in...
located in Pennsylvania.

And Glock happens to be
one of our major sellers.

Why is that so?

'Cause of their ease of disassembly
and how reliable they are.

They're one of the most reliable,
easiest to use, firearms in the world.

Next to the AK-47.
They're one of the best.

We have the subcompact, the compact,

the full-size,
and then the competition models.

And also, the .45 models.

We... We have…

-Show him the single-stack.
-We offer…

different sizes

of each in the .45s, which are…

even a different... frame size.

That's a single stack,
which is a narrower frame.

That's a Glock 36.

It's a .45 caliber.

And what makes the Glock so popular
in the United States?

Law enforcement use Glock. They carry…
Most law enforcement departments...

Our Pennsylvania State Police
carry the Glock.

That is their duty weapon.

It's a dependable weapon. When you pull
the trigger, gun is gonna go off.

And you two...

-went to Austria?
-Yes.

We were one of three people
that were invited.

Us being a dealer.

One being a wholesaler
that would sell us the weapons.

And also a customer
that we would sell weapons to.

We are from all different parts
of the country.

And we were each allowed to take
one person with us to Austria

to go visit the Glock factory.

It was amazing how fast

that they could make
the barrel and the slide, and...

The machine,
they put them in, and the machine

made 'em and then it just took 'em out
and it cooled them…

Everything was all mechanical,
but there was a lot of workers there.

Glock employed a lot of people
in their factory.

And everybody that we talked to there
seemed to like working there.

Which was really nice.

And I love the mountains up there.
The mountains were really neat.

Ferlach, Kärnten.

Home to Austrian largest weapon factory.

This is Glock's second plant,

beside the first one in Deutsch-Wagram.

A call for tenders
by the Austrian armed forces

prompted the engineer Gaston Glock,
in the early 1980s,

to develop the perfect pistol.

Despite little experience
in manufacturing firearms,

Glock ended up
revolutionizing gun technology.

His pistol turned a small family business
into a global player in the arms industry,

and its inventor
into one of Austria's richest men.

But the company would have never become
a global brand without the USA

and its gun culture.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls!

This is the world-famous
Hood Life & Hip Hop Tour

that takes you down through
South Central, Compton, Watts,

all the wonderful areas
that you might have seen in videos,

seen in movies such as Menace II Society,
Boyz n the Hood,

Training Day, Baby Boy. 

We take you there,
because some of these places are known

for being extremely dangerous
and extremely volatile.

And if all the good people
from around the world,

if they make it down there,
they might not fucking make it out.

Glock, Glock, Glock
All get shot

Glock, Glock, Glock
All get shot

Man, I'm fucking starving. Goddamn.

I don't think anything has had
as big an impact

on the brand name awareness of Glock

in popular culture
like hip hop. Like rap music.

The brands change...

a lot in hip hop.
It's a very brand-conscious culture.

Clothing brands change over time.

Car companies stay the same.

So, Mercedes has always been popular
in hip hop.

Glock's always been popular in hip hop.

Over the last 25 years,

the references to the product,
to the name Glock,

are in the thousands.

And there are songs
named directly after the Glock.

There're dozens of those songs and...

Every day... I'm a hip hop fan.

I listen to new rap music, new hip hop.

And every day, there is a song

that comes out
where the Glock gets profiled.

And that's a reflection of the fact
that the artists live

a certain type of life style coming up,

where...

it's necessary,
or they believe it's necessary

to arm themselves, to pack.

So, they end up packing Glock.

Never leave home
Without it

Good thing
We brought the Glock

Cuz I put away a shotgun
Borrow me a Glock

It's a form of art,

which... is based on rhyming.

So, Glock rhymes with a lot of cool words:

"lock," "pop," "drop," "cock"...

You know, all that stuff

works in ta... in combination
with the name Glock.

And there's just something powerful
about that name.

There's certainly one functional reason
why Glocks are very, very popular.

Because I've been in shootouts.
I've had the unfortunate incident

where I had a weapon that jammed.

It is known by every gang member,

every bank robber...

anybody that's hustlin' down here
in the hood that your Glock

will never fuckin' jam on you.
And that may save your life.

Keep my shit cocked
Cause the cops got a Glock, too

What the fuck would you do?
Drop them or let them drop you?

I chose droppin' the cop

I got me a Glock
And a Glock for the niggas on my block

The Glock is a gun of choice
in my community.

Like I said,
it's like lookin' at a diamond.

You got all these other stones, of course
you're gonna pick that pretty diamond.

And it just out...
It outviews the rest of the guns.

You can put a Glock and you put the rest
of the guns, I guarantee...

And...

people give up a Desert Eagle
and that's a big old, long, steel gun.

But they gonna pick that Glock.

I had an extended clip to mine,
so my Glock shot...

I think 30 plus times.

Like, here the clip.

This was a regular 9 mm with a clip
this long. And...

Man, I'm tellin' you, I was crazy.

There's people all across this country
and in other countries

that listen to this music,
that love this music,

that are influenced by this music
in a very real way.

Gun manufacturers
are getting this all for free.

And the reason they can't acknowledge
this free marketing

is because they know

that it's being marketed
in the context of violence.

Ain't no Glock
Like the one I got

Glock didn't want their name
mentioned in rap music,

because the references were so common

that people were starting to think
that Glock was just another name for gun.

And that is their worst nightmare.

They want to ensure that people know

that that name and the look of the gun
are protected.

They're distinct.
'Cause Glock is something special.

It's all black, it's solid,

stripped down
to a purely utilitarian tool.

Cool, rugged.
You see what I got. You know what it does.

I ain't afraid to use it.

Don't test me when I got my Glock.

Back and forward. let's go.

Jab.

There you go.

Look at me. Put it back.

Jab.

Put it back.

Jab.

There we go! That's what I'm talkin'!
Do it again!

To be a gang banger...

and to not have a gun
is just like a barber without clippers.

So...

gang, gun, grows hand in hand.

You can't be in a gang without a gun,
because this gun is...

If you can't fight...

But if you can fight...

this gun is bigger than life.

This gun is what puts you on top
and puts you above everybody else.

Especially if you know what to do with it.

Go. One, two, three.

I always wanted to be a drug dealer.

‘Cause my life was so poor

and the drug dealers, the pimps,
the hustlers would ride down the street

-with their pretty cars.
-Good job, AJ.

Yes. sir.

No. Hey.

So, as a youth,  it's something like...
it was a life, like...

It was more than I ever had, so...

that's exactly what I wanted to do.
That's what I wanted to be.

One, two.

One, two.

Some people say,

"Guns don't kill people.
People kill people."

I talked to a guy who recently had
a very interesting argument.

He said, "There is a demon
living in this pistol."

My thing with the gun. When I shot...

I don't know about this demon,
but I get high.

I mean, your adrenaline comes up...

so high, it's like floatin'.

When you're shootin' behind that gun...

You can't even...  You really
don't even realize what you're doin'.

It's almost if you smoked some... leaf.

Smoked some PCP or somethin'.

Just for that split second,
or whatever how long you get,

you get high.

And the more you get high,
it becomes an addiction.

And that's one of the worst addictions
I could've probably ever picked up.

Was the addiction of shootin' a gun.

Threat!

Scan and assess. Holster!

Turn to the left! Turn ot the left!

On "threat," we're gonna step forward
with our left foot.

Shooter ready?

Threat!

Scan and assess. Holster!

Every day, I carry a Glock 19.
And that gun is actually…

feels to me like an extension of my body.

I carry it...

regularly. Without it on,
I feel naked. It's...

so comfortable to me to have it on,
and know that it's there.

And I've carried for so long, that…

without it it just feels uncomfortable.

Sometimes, even when I would sit down
on the couch next to my husband,

he would wrap his arm around me and say,
"You still have your gun on."

And I'm like, "I forget that it's there,
because it's always there."

It's there 24 hours a day.

Now over top with your hand
just like I showed you.

You don't wanna put your pinkies near
this ejection port cause it'll pinch you.

-So, I'm back here?
-Yup. And push and pull. And let it go.

-Push what?
-Push the...

-Push this?
-the receiver. the lower part of the gun.

And pull the slide.

Let it go.

Perfect.

-Okay.
-All right. Now it's loaded.

-Okay.
-It's a round chambered.

All right.
Get that hand high on the back strap.

Now, don't try to look for those sights
with your head. You're doing that.

-Okay.
-Extend your arms out.

Bend at the waist. Lock your arms.

Bring 'em in. All right.
Now, bring the gun to your eyes.

I believe that the hand gun
levels the playing field

between a five-foot two woman,

who weighs 115 pounds,

against a man that's 300 pounds
and on drugs of some sort,

and his intention is to rape, or kill,
or maim her.

That levels the playing field.
It gives her that...

empowerment to know
that she can stop him from doing that.

Whenever you're ready.
Just put pressure, pressure, pressure--

Focus only on the green dot and put
pressure on the trigger until it breaks.

Finger off the trigger.

Relax your gun and bring it
into your body. And look at your target.

-Okay. That's not so good, is it?
-What?

-Yes, it is. You're in the red dot.
-Okay.

I had an 82-year-old lady
who was a student of mine, and…

and, when her husband passed away,

she'd always had her dog to alert her
if someone came to the door.

And when her dog passed away...

she decided that…

she didn't wanna get another dog, 'cause
she wanted to go travel a little bit.

So, instead of getting another dog,
she wanted to learn how to shoot a gun.

And I asked her if she would like
to just try to shoot my Glock.

And she said ,"If you think that I can
do it, then I'll give it a try."

And she immediately went
and bought a Glock and…

she keeps it by her bedstand and…

carries it in her glove box
in her center console when she travels.

She's...

She feels safe again.
And that's a great feeling for me to know

that here this lady, as frail and elderly,

didn't feel like she could protect
herself. And now she can.

Six, zero, six, just got...
for unit number Boy, One...

He's a gangster.

Yeah, I think Glock would begin to look
at the American market in the 1980s...

about the mid 1980s.
And then by the early 1990s,

had established itself
as quite successful.

Glock targeted law enforcement
in the United States.

And they targeted
the law enforcement successfully.

They were able to persuade
law enforcement agencies...

increasingly, that they should have

high-capacity semi-automatic pistols
which were a better firearm 

for the law enforcement purposes
than the old-fashioned revolver.

But once you sold a gun
to a law enforcement agency,

the gun itself can last
20, 30, 40, 50 years.

But that's not what a manufacturer wants
to do. They wanna sell more guns.

So, in order to that,

Glock then began to sell

semi-automatic pistols in higher calibers.

It was a cycle of lethality.

In other words, the police would have
them, the criminals would have them,

then the police would say,
"We need a bigger caliber

to deal with the criminals."
So it's an endless spiral.

I don't think
Glock ever really thought that...

selling to law enforcement is
the endgame of their marketing.

The endgame of their marketing is
the much larger civilian population.

OK, give us a little tour of the guns
in your house?

Okay.

-The places how you store them?
-I will show you one… first safe.

It's a little unorganized at the moment.

But we have everything locked up.

There's probably…

forty to fifty guns in this safe.

There's another one.

This safe is also a little unorganized
but it has a lot of...

my father's hunting weapons in it.

This is one of the safes
that I keep my handguns in.

There's probably...

fifty to sixty guns in this safe also.

I'll just show you-- I like
when different manufacturers do

designs on...

on different stuff. Like this one's
labeled "thunder and lightning."

And I also like

25th anniversary.
I like collecting different models that...

nobody else has.

So, how many Glocks do you own?

That's a good question.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

About 18 Glocks.

Eighteen different models.

-She did that easy!
-Finger straight.

Some people do it different.

-Ready?
-Whenever you are.

Put your green dot right in the middle
of your front sight and focus on...

Right in the middle of the target.
And focus on your front sight.

Slow and…

Perfect.

So, can you explain to me what it means?

Well, it's a picture of a Glock
in front of our...

our Constitution.

And...

the significance, of course,
is our Second Amendment.

The purpose the Second Amendment
was created for

was to protect us from the government.
And that's why...

our Constitution starts
with "We, the people."

Not with...

"The subjects" or…"We, the government."
It's with "We, the people," and part of…

Before they would ratify the Constitution,
they created the Bill of Rights…

giving us...

number one, our freedom
of speech and religion and…

then number two, our right to bear arms.

And it was to protect us from…

tyranny.

And so,

the picture of the Glock
in front of the Bill of Rights

that's is... is... its total significance.

Do you think it's necessary to have
something to protect yourself with?

Yeah. I believe it's everybody's right

to have something
to protect themselves with.

I mean...

if you don't have something
to protect yourself with…

why, what's the point, you know,

if somebody going in and threatening you,
what's the point

of continuing on with your life?
You'd always be afraid of

"OK, this person said
they're gonna hurt me, so...

I'm not gonna go to this place anymore,
I'm not gonna go that place anymore."

Whereas if you have a means
to defend yourself,

if, you know, the situation arises,
it's best to...

be able to defend yourself.
Everybody has a right to defend themself.

I'd rather have the gun and not need it.

You know, it gives you…
not necessary a sense of…

Sort of like, like a sense of less fear.

Like, I know in situations, like,
when I go on vacation to other states,

there's always that paranoia
of, "I know I don't have a gun."

So, I am extremely cautious
about the area.

Like, I won't go to certain areas

that I know there was crime or anything
like that. I'll definitely avoid them.

Almost, like, avoiding a plague, you know.

I choose to avoid those situations.

Jab, jab.

Good job. Do it again.

Do it again.

One, two.

Fall.

Fall.

You know what happen
when you goin' so fast?

This is you startin' to do.

Your hands goin' like this.
I want you do to do it one,

turn. Two, turn. Three, turn. Four, turn.

-One, two.
-Back.

-One, two.
-Back.

-One, two.
-Forward.

-One, two.
-Forward.

-One, two.
-Forward.

-One, two.
-Back.

-One, two.
-Back.

-One, two.
-Back.

-One, two.
-Back.

When you have a poverty-stricken
community, comes desperation.

-One, two.
-Forward.

-One, two.
-Forward.

One, two.

Desperation for survival.

Same thing. Right here.

Some people call this "Chiraq"

because of the capacity of the violence
is compared to Iraq.

So, Chicago is basically known as "Chiraq"
because of it's a warzone.

You can see me?

People prey on each other.
That's what the drug selling's all about.

Preying off your own people.

Killin' people off. But,

like I said, if you don't know better,

how can you do better?

Well, I lost my friend to gun violence.

It was...

1996.

This was my best friend.

You know, me and him from...
He moved here when I was in third grade.

And we been like this...

With those same vice lord laws
that we followed.

That was us, you know.
Men's fought for the same cause.

Everything we did.
It was like a part of me.

As he was standin' out there,
while they were sellin' drugs.

And he all... He had gun... He had
a gun on him at the time.

And somebody came from behind
and shot him in the head.

Shot him in the neck, his heart.

Just multiple times,
just shot his body up.

He never made to see 20.

That's what made me realize that...

life wasn't a game.

Human life wants to be valued.

At the same time,

we were also part of the violence,
because...

Walter was hard crook, criminal.

And I was, too.

I know, crying tears.
Walter can never come back.

There's somethin' was just tellin' me

to kill every person
that you can possibly think of.

But then I'm sayin',
"That's a lot of people."

We have many enemies.

And right before I was about to get up,
I just heard a voice.

It was telling me, "No, put the gun down."

And I'm... I was…

I was like, "Am I trippin'?"

It was like, "Put the gun down."

I just started cryin'
even while I said, "I can't, I can't."

It was like, "You can."

"I can't." "You can."
"I can't." "You can."

And it's like I felt something touch
my shoulders as I was crying'.

And it said,
"Everything is gonna be all right."

Thank you.

Chicago.

4th of July, 2015.

Independence Day.

Year after year,
the annual day of celebration

is one
of the bloodiest on Chicago streets.

Tonight's tally for gun violence:

in eight hours, ten dead, 55 wounded.

Both sides of the law reach
for the same weapon.

This is a .40 caliber Glock.

You know, model 23, 4...
generation 4, .40 caliber.

With a 12-round magazine.

There is a 19. Nine millimeter.

Glock.

This is also popular police gun?

Oh, yes, yes.
This is real popular. Almost…

I'd say 60% of the Chicago Police
Department have it,

and all new people coming
at the Police Department have this gun.

You know, and it's a selling point
for the manufacturer.

Hey, police, army members use it.

So, when a shooter says,
"Hey, well, police, army use it.

Well, I wanna be, you know
what I mean, the police and army, too."

So, normally, at this point,
I'd make a joke,

that this must be good news,

because there's a lot of people
standing up here.

But that couldn't be the furthest thing
from the truth.

We come here today...

outraged and saddened...

by the amount of gun violence
that has plagued our city. Particularly,

over the last 24 hours.

And again, taken a life
of another innocent child.

While we normally wait
until the conclusion of a weekend

to release
official enforcement statistics,

I felt compelled
to call you all together here,

now, to explain to you

what the Chicago Police Department,
in our community, is up against

and how aggressively
we are fighting this problem.

Every one of these firearms is
an odd confrontation with a criminal.

Every one of these firerarms puts
our officers and the community in danger.

Maybe we'll take another 10,000 guns
off the street

and another 10,000 will fill up
that illegal market the next day.

-Yes?
-So, what's the problem you think?

What is the problem?
Come on, you know the answer.

You know all the answers to that.

You know the answers to that.
This is about the gun lobby.

My baby was seven,
was seven years old. Seven.

He hadn't lived.

He wanted to be somebody.

It was violence that took that
away from me.

I don't know where to go

There is power

in the name of Jesus

There is power

in the name of Jesus

To break every chain,
break every chain

break every chain

Hear the chains

I hear the chains falling

I hear the chains falling

Let me go, let me go!

I hear the chains falling

This was my boy! My boy! No!

I hear the chains falling

I love you.

-Stop the violence!
-Increase the peace!

-Stop the violence!
-Increase the peace!

-Stop the violence!
-Increase the peace!

-Stop the violence!
-Increase the peace!

-Stop the violence!
-Increase the peace!

Walk with us to stop the violence!

No guns! Stop the violence!

-Walk with us to stop the violence!
-No guns! Stop the violence!

Walk with us to stop the violence!

No guns! Stop the violence!

Walk with us to stop the violence!

No guns! Stop the violence!

-I will live...
-I will live...

-and go to college...
-and go to college...

-if we stop...
-if we stop...

-stop the violence!
-stop the violence!

NOT EVEN A NO COMMENT

The Glock pistol,
named after its inventor,

is a semi-automatic,
18-round, nine-millimeter pistol.

Firing tests show that the new army pistol
is faster and more accurate

than any other handgun.

Designed to meet
the highest safety standards,

it is manufactured by a small company
in Deutsch-Wagram.

From CEO to cleaning lady,
only 20 people work here.

The plant previously made
machine-gun belts,

spades, made of plastic, like the pistol,

and combat knives
for both army and private use.

The frame, grip,

trigger and other important
parts of the Glock are made of plastic.

Only its barrel and breech

are of tempered steel.
It can be disassembled in a minute.

Its innovative design sparked
international

and local media interest.

The Glock is hailed as a super-pistol

and an Austrian technological sensation.

The Austrian army,

which is still equipped
with pistols from WWII,

the German P38 and the American Colt,

is really interested in the new weapon.

The army is inviting bids
for an initial order of 25,000 guns,

final decision to be made in October.

Civilian collectors and marksmen
will have to wait patiently.

The Glock pistol will be commercially
available only in the spring of 1983.

Are people concerned 

that an international arms manufacturer
is based here?

From what I can see, no. No.

Even those who know that Glock is here

aren't concerned
that it's an international arms maker.

It's not an issue.

US gun lovers worship the plant here
in Deutsch-Wagram like a shrine.

It's the first time I hear that.

It's where the pistol was invented
in 1981. So that's not an issue?

It's not an issue. Definitely not.

Is the company an important employer here?

Yes, yes.

That may be a reason why people

don't think or talk about it much.

Jobs are desperately needed.

Unemployment is rising,
especially in our region.

People are happy to have a job.

And I can imagine that...

I was never inside the factory...

you don't make an entire Glock,
the whole gun, but just one part of it.

Right? Assembly stages are separate,

or so I imagine.

You don't think about it. What matters
is that you get your monthly check.

And that's it.

The gate is in the back,
it's usually open.

I don't know if this is an access road.

The section to the highway

was only recently repaired
and even paved, in fact.

Whether parts...

are delivered here for production,

or whether they're shipped from here,
I don't know. But...

that is...

the entrance to the Glock plant.

And here, this is the Jewish cemetery.

It's existed in Deutsch-Wagram
for many years.

The Jewish cemetery is now surrounded
by the concrete walls

of Glock, which purchased the entire site.

Apparently there's an agreement

whereby the Glock company looks
after the Jewish cemetery.

That may just be a rumor, I don't know.

The fact is, the cemetery

hasn't been cared for,

which is a black mark on the municipality.

Besides, this is the history.
History of the weapons,

the Jewish cemetery.

Nobody knows anything or talks about it.
They all try to forget.

In Austria, our research
meets with obstacles.

Gaston Glock turns down
our interview request.

The firm refuses to talk to us.

Its employees sign
confidentiality clauses.

No one who has dealings with the company

is willing to appear on camera.

I find Gaston Glock's name
at the Schönbrunn Zoo,

as godfather
of the "death's head" monkeys.

Paul, you were a corporate lawyer
at Glock?

Yes.

What would you have done to people like us

going around,
asking tricky questions about the company?

You wouldn't have gotten
anywhere near the company.

It's as simple as that.
You wouldn't have gotten near the company

and you wouldn't have gotten on the floor
of the shot show.

-Not even a "no comment"?
-No. I mean...

Chances are, you wouldn't have gotten
a lot of information.

What was the policy of Glock
towards journalists in Austria?

Well, I know they never spoke to 'em.

But if...

somebody did have the audacity
to report the news,

you know, their policy was quite simple.

If his name appeared in print,
they got sued.

Paul Januzzo began his career in 1991
as a corporate lawyer

and later rose to become CEO of Glock USA.

Bloomberg Businessweek called him
the embodiment of the US firearm industry.

Under him, Glock USA developed
from being a small, Austrian importer

to the market leader
of handguns in the USA.

You know, I helped to shape Glock's image,
without a doubt.

You know, you don't have
to be Einstein to figure out

that, to the anti-gunners,

being a law enforcement equipment company

is more palatable to their sensibilities

than being a firearms company.

Same thing, but if you can cast yourself
as a law enforcement equipment company,

then you're on the side of,
you know, righteousness and good,

as opposed to being
a big, bad, evil gun company.

In central Texas, scenes from a massacre.

The deadliest mass-shooting
in American history.

This is the CBS evening news.
Dan Rather reporting.

Good evening. A man went on a bloody
rampage in central Texas today.

He drove a truck into a cafeteria,

opened fire on the crowd inside,

and then committed suicide.

The first time Glock was ever used
in a mass-shooting,

to my knowledge anyway,

was in Killeen, Texas.

And there was a guy
that walked into a cafe, a diner,

whatever, in Killeen, Texas.

And I don't know how many people
he shot, but... a lot.

And...

Usually, the company
would have hidden from that.

And this was...

This was, really, I think
about four months after I got there.

So, I was still getting my feet wet.

But instead of hiding from the news,

my recommendation to the company
at that point in time

was to get in front of it.

And I called a buddy of mine,
who was a media specialist,

and we set up a press conference

to talk to the press
about what happened.

And to, like I said,
to try to get in front of it.

But the reality is, you know,

as horrible as it may sound,
people see that and...

and once they look past
the horrific circumstances,

the next thing, apparently,
that occurs to 'em is that it worked.

So, it... As... You know,

it's not the kind of marketing
anybody wants.

But, unfortunately, it works.

Paul Januzzo was released from jail
a few months before this interview.

In 2009, he was convicted
of embezzling funds from Glock.

He avoided arrest by fleeing to Mexico
and was later arrested in the Netherlands.

After four years in custody, his sentence
was overturned due to procedural errors.

Januzzo sees himself
as the victim of a conspiracy

and is now suing Glock.

When I left Gaston Glock
and the Glock company,

in... on February 3rd, 2003,

it wasn't exactly
text book-style termination.

Definitely not one that Dale Carnegie
would recommend in one of his courses.

It was a huge argument.

It was right after the shot show
that I had mentioned before.

I was not particularly happy with him.

So, I called him up and told him

I was gonna meet him at his house
before he came into the office that day.

And I drove over, and I quit.

And I told him why I was quitting.

Basically told him he disgusted me.

And he went and got a gun.

I could hear him load it in his room

before he came back in
and it was stuck into his belt.

Part of our argument was, I told him
if he touched his pistol again,

I was gonna shove it so far up his ass
he was gonna blow his tonsils off.

And, you know, that was my termination.
Not good.

But on top of that, I had the fact
that I knew way too much,

because when we did
the investigation for Glock,

into his trustee,

we uncovered what can only
be described as massive tax fraud

to the tune of, I think a hundre--
at least 80 million dollars,

potentially a hundred million dollars

that he had siphoned off
the worldwide corporation

via shell corporations and phoney bills

and money laundering.

So, we had... There's two strikes.
The third strike

was that I was dating Monika
and eventually married her.

And he had been pursuing her since 1995.

And number four, you know,

it was almost a de rigueur in Glock.

You can... It's like the Mafia.
You can join,

but it's a capital offense to leave.

Gaston Glock...

the man behind the gun.

Who owns a Glock?

You guys, a lot of you
watching the channel

own a Glock, want a Glock,
or have shot a Glock in the past.

Boy, this gun has changed
the firearm industry

in a huge way for the better.

And, I gotta tell you,
this video is all about Gaston Glock,

the man and the history behind

how he created the empire
that we now know as Glock.

Gaston's still alive right now.
Doin' real well.

He's 83. He's got a 31-year-old wife,
we're gonna talk about that.

She's smokin' hot.

But did you guys realize that 1999...

someone tried messin' with Gaston?
And you don't mess with Gaston Glock!

His best friend, his business associate...

messed with him. You know what he did?
He tried to have Gaston assassinated.

Have you talked to him?

He's not too fond of the press.

Well...

How much liability insurance do you have,
when the lawsuits start?

That's his standard MO.
Mention his name and he sues you.

Anyway.

It was a partnership.

But...

the courts decided otherwise.

You're only referred to as a trustee.

By him, yes.

But in fact you spent 15 years
helping to build the Glock empire.

Not just build it.
I also helped to run it.

I was...

in Vienna three times a month

or in Klagenfurt.

Whenever there was a problem,

"Mr. Ewert, we need you.

Only you can break it to him."
I had to deliver all the bad news.

He couldn't fire me.

Everyone knew that.

How did your relationship change
over time?

You met when the pistol was still--

The relationship was
always the same, always good.

It changed...

on the day he was attacked with a hammer.

An underground car park in Luxemburg.

On July 27, 1999, three men meet here.

Gaston Glock,

inventor and businessman,

his trustee, Charles Ewert,

nicknamed Panama Charly,

and former French paratrooper
and pro wrestler, Jacques Pêcheur,

nom de guerre, Spartacus.

The meeting led to the revelation
of the Glock company's financial network.

And it marks the starting point
of numerous myths.

Did you try to kill Gaston Glock?

If I wanted to have someone murdered,

it wouldn't be done in my presence
with a rubber hammer.

I'm smarter than that.

I would've been sitting on a terrasse
with five notaries as witnesses

and his body would've been found
floating...

somewhere off the coast of Latin America.

That's just not my style.

I mean, you can call me...

You can say, "That bastard,"
"He's a lush,"

"He cons people, cheats,
launders money." Whatever.

But murder?

No one would believe you.

So, Charles Ewert and Gaston Glock,
on the 27th July, 1999,

they were riding by car,
coming from the airport.

They came down this ramp.

And Charles Ewert stopped his car,

asked Gaston Glock to come out of the car,

and went backwards to park
next to the wall.

So, Gaston Glock was out first.

Charles Ewert came out.

And they both went in the direction
of the staircase to go upstairs.

So, Charles took out his key

and put the key in the key hole.

At that moment, Gaston Glock saw

a nice collection car, a Morgan,

and said to Charles,

"I believe this is your car, isn't it?
Or your new car?"

Charles said, "Yes."
And then Gaston Glock, by himself,

by his own initiative,
went in the direction of the car

and started looking at it.

And in that moment
Jacques Pêcheur arrived.

One thing is for sure.
Pêcheur came from here.

He had a hammer
made of plastic in his hand.

The kind of hammer you use for tiling.

When the attack started,

Charles Ewert got scared,

immediately pushed open the door,
with his key,

called the lift,

realized that the lift was busy,

or was not coming down.
So, he decided to run up the stairs,

run out the door,

and called his office.

His secretary answered.

He told them, "Call the police!
Gaston Glock is being attacked."

We have one witness
who arrived on the crime scene...

after those 15 minutes.
And he found Pêcheur on top of Glock.

But Glock did have
the plastic hammer in his hand,

and Pêcheur was holding his hand.

While Gaston Glock was laying
on his bed at the hospital,

he asked the bankers to come,
Mr. Rusch and Mr. Maurer.

And immediately asked for his briefcase,

asked for the banker
to look in his briefcase.

There were powers of attorneys
in order to operate on the bank accounts

of Reofin and other
various offshore companies.

And immediate instructions were given
to empty some of those bank accounts.

He tried to empty all, but...

one of the power of attorneys
was not drafted properly,

so one of the bank accounts
was not emptied that day.

So, just a few hours after the attack,

-a lot of money was transferred?
-Yes.

How much?

We’re talking about
at least $35 million US dollars.

Charles Ewert pioneered the setting up
of shell companies in tax havens.

Gaston Glock first contacted him in 1985.

He needed help to expand
his weapons company.

How can I start a venture without money?

By using...

the financial instruments
that existed then,

that today are frowned upon,
but that made Luxemburg the player it is.

You create equity using...

tax money that you haven't paid yet.

You know.

And then you reinvest it.

That, basically,

is the secret of his success.

The problem is the pie wasn't shared.

Or there'd never have been a problem.

If he'd had his share, and I'd had mine,

all good. But there was only one pot,

and we both helped ourselves to it.

How big was the pot?

Big.

You could've easily bought
a jet without...

Is there a ballpark figure?

A three-digit million figure.

No need to say more.

But you'd have controlled
$70 or $80 million in bank accounts,

if Glock had died on that day.

I controlled them anyway.

I had control anyway.

At the time of the interview,
Charles Ewert had spent 13 years in jail.

He was found guilty
of ordering the murder of Gaston Glock.

Charles Ewert, too, sees himself
as a victim of conspiracy.

If you were to run into Gaston Glock,

would you have anything to say to him?

No.

A gesture, though.

It would be a message...

to tell him...

You could kill him with a .22,

to show that smaller calibers can do
the job.

Something that would be inconceivable
to him.

He doesn't know
how the Mossad handled the terrorists

behind the 1972 attack in Munich.

They were all...

liquidated...

with .22s.

All you need are exceptional marksmen.

You don't hear a thing, though.

A .22 with a silencer.

That's all.

And on the street...

Someone walking on the Kärntner Straße.

You can shoot him from behind
and no one will hear a thing.

Or am I missing something? No, I mean...

I don't think we'll ever meet again.

Velden am Wörthersee.

Here, at the end of the rainbow,

lives Gaston Glock.

The tax scandal around Panama Charly ebbed

when the case was transferred
from Vienna to Klagenfurt.

Then governor Jörg Haider
publicly sided with Gaston Glock.

Glock oversees the Glock Horse
Performance Center in Treffen,

home of the world's most exclusive
equestrian events.

Photos show the engineer
with guests such as Chuck Norris,

Mariah Carey and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

When not watching dressage events,
patrons write checks to charities.

Glock gives to handicapped kids,

Syrian war refugees, local causes.

And most of all, animals.

Robbie Williams is flown in
for Gaston Glock's birthday

to sing the inventor's favorite song.

"My Way," by Frank Sinatra.

Do you have flashbacks?

Every day.

Flashbacks is a common,

natural courtesy of my brain.

It comes and goes.

Sometimes more, sometimes less.

But it's always there.

To many, this is not a gorgeous view.
To me, it's the best.

Nothing but open water ahead o' you
and then you see the lights.

Every light is a thought.

You turn it into a pattern.

Well, this is my relaxation.
My beauty, shall I say.

I come out here whenever, just sit down
and relax or release my stress,

‘cause if if I'm lookin' at the water,
I could go over there, I could work out.

I'd play handball, there's
a basketball court. I can run around.

This is actually like a smaller track,
so you can run around as well.

This is, at night time, a personal time.

Normally, I don't bring people out here.
I don't...

wanna be with nobody.

I prefer being left alone
when I'm thinking and...

or I'm in a state of mind
where I deem myself...

unfit to be around other people,

or mentally unstable, shall I say.

And then I come here for a couple hours
and I go back like it was a normal day.

Short and simple.

In September of '02,

I was shipped out to Kentucky
for my training...

as a scout, as infantry,

as a tank driver.

We had different kinds of weapons,
that were being...

set up and transported around.
So, we had to test them.

After about three or four months
of all this special training...

already in my head, I already had it set
that I was goin' over for war.

Picked up the phone, called my wife,

my family, said, "I'm leaving.

I just wanna say goodbye. Love you guys.

In case you don't hear from me
ever again," stuff like that.

We were originally supposed to come
in through Turkey,

but we came in through Baghdad.

I got attached to a special force unit

in the green berets unit,

to run the black list.

December 13, 2003.

Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Operation Red Dawn.

We been workin' on missions
on blacklist guys.

Our missions all were

well detailled, a little bit of goin' out
for several days and several nights,

overwatching locations
to where these guys on the blacklist was.

Especially number one was Saddam Hussein.

On this particular night,

we were supposed
to raid the area in Ad-Dawr,

where Saddam was. And how there was
once again no real guarantee he was there,

'cause our intel, as we watched, we didn't
see much of anybody coming in and out.

We noticed the size of the hole.
The gap there was.

We had to pick the thinnest guy
to be able to go in there.

But the one with the senior ranking.

Which wasn't me, either way.

But unfortunately, commander comes over,

"You, Cruz, you're gonna go in.

Take off your flak vest
and make sure the guys are watching.

I jumped into the hole,
followed by one of the other guys.

Already... Saddam Hussein
was already stunned in the corner.

He was holdin' his AK-47 in his hand.

And on the bed, he had a Glock there.

Everybody was trying to get their hands
on this Glock.

Whatever trophy was caught
from his capture

was gonna go to the president
who put us out in Iraq.

That was a guarantee.

So whatever was brought back from Saddam,

that was gonna be personal,
was gonna go to George W. Bush.

And when we got back to Texas,

they had the ceremony
where he was receiving the Glock.

We will not tire, we will not falter...

Tonight we are a country
relating to danger.

We are called to defend freedom.

I think about the families,
the children...

who carried out yesterday
against our country...

They were acts of war.

So the visitor just got done learning
all about the creation of the Patriot Act,

the creation of the Department
of Homeland Security,

Iraq's first democratic election.

And now they get to learn
about the Bush doctrine.

The Bush doctrine is simply four ideals

that completely describe why we are
fighting a global war on terrorism.

"Take the fight to the enemy."

"Make no distinction between terrorists
and the nations that harbor them."

"Confront threats
before they fully emerge."

And "Advance freedom."

Right there, those four thoughts
completely summarize

what this entire portion of museum
is all about.

Advancing freedom,

spreading democracy,

fighting terror.

Simply put, in four different statements.

Now, when the visitor is in this section,

there is an artifact
that they may not even know it exists.

So when they come through here,
they see this big glass stanchion.

They notice the giant arrow, they notice
the shield, they notice the poster

and then all of a sudden,
right there in the middle of the stanchion

there's a Glock.

Now, they're not quite sure who the Glock
belongs to, so they start to read.

And they notice that this was the pistol

that Saddam Hussein had on his person

when Special Forces captured him

in that spider hole.

Course, after they detained him,
they took that pistol,

they framed it and they said,
"Mr. President,

right here you have
Saddam Hussein's nine-millimeter Glock."

We put it on display.

Why do we put artifacts like this
on display? Well, this

is an important part of the narrative.

This symbolizes the point where Iraq

was underneath the thumb of a dictator.

And now had the opportunity
to become a democratic nation.

While some may only see it as a Glock,

this is one of the most important
historical artifacts that we have

because of the symbolism.

Here's some pictures that I have.
Here's the original of that one.

When I first came back to see my child
and everybody else on R&R.

everybody thought that I was locked up
a long time, or on crack, or I was dying,

'cause of how skinny I was.

I went from being a 200-plus-poiund guy
that lifted weights and played football

to bein' 125 pound.

So, that was that struggle.

You see the colorations on my hand,
they start from sandstorms,

and burns from fires and RPG attacks.

My memories…

Then goes the bastard there.

See on the bottom of this,

"Captured Saddam Hussein,
13th December, 2003, in Ad-Dawr, Iraq."

It's a... It's definitely a day
you don't forget.

And I have other things, ARCOMs and stuff
like that, I left all that in Jersey.

Presidential award.

Garbage.

All this paper. I keep sayin' on people
all these papers is just garbage.

It's waste o' trees.

It's a waste o' trees.

So you guys still got factories out there
building the...

these weapons?

How rapid are they doin' it, you know?

I think every few minutes. I mean,
it takes only probably a few minutes

to make a Glock. 

-It's, you know, made out of plastic.
-Yeah.

So...

Doesn't cost anything.

It'll cost you your life, eventually.

Remember that one.

Nothing in this world is free.

That's what I...
Who was I tellin' that yesterday to?

That, "No, but it's free."
I said, "Nothing in this world is free."

No matter how you look at it.

It could be handed,
you could have found it,

some way somehow you're gonna pay
in return for it.

In my true, honest words,
karma is a bitch.

I've lived it.

I've done wrong things
and wrong things have been done to me.

I live by this, karma…

It will come back around and bite you.

And it may not be as soon as you think,

but it's definitely gonna catch up to you.

9/11 and the ensuing War on Terror

created a gold rush
for arms manufacturers.

After the US invasion of Iraq,
Iraqi security services were disbanded.

Police officers left their posts
with their weapons.

The US interim government
ordered Glocks from Austria

to arm the new Iraqi security forces.

The deal was controversial.

Can a neutral country
ship arms to war zones?

Glock threatened
to move production abroad

unless export licenses were granted.

The Ministry of Commerce relented

and allowed the arms shipments,
arguing that,

"Pursuant to the Foreign Trade Law,
arms shipments are only approved

when there are no grounds to believe

that the arms will end up
in terrorist hands."

Don't tell him too much.
Give short answers.

When the Americans equipped us
with these Glocks,

they also trained us to disassemble
and clean them.

They took us to the firing range
and practiced shooting with us.

It's certainly a good pistol
to have on you.

Unfortunately we don't have enough Glocks
for all our men.

Because for a policeman,
a Glock is really necessary.

We have enough Kalashnikovs,

but they're not suited to daily use,

whereas for policemen Glocks
are very practical. So, I'm still short.

For example,
I have 750 police officers here,

and we've been sent only 100 Glocks.

So you have some information
whether ISIS is using Glocks as well?

Do you information

whether ISIS is using Glocks as well?

I am pretty sure they can get Glocks,

because there are places where to buy.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they can, you know,

get Glocks because there are some places
they could sell Glocks. It's easy to get.

Salaam-Alaikum.

Dear brothers, especially brothers,
and also sisters.

I am in the land of jihad at the moment
with a Glock 19.

Yeah? Most of you playboy guys
ain't seen this yet.

I've got a box of ammunition

from our so-called brothers,
the Free Syrian Army.

What I was come to do here,

it's what's prescribed

to us as Muslim men.

So while you are sitting
down on the corner,

on a block,

you know, chasing that squealer,

chasing that honey that walks past,

with the low batties on,

-with your hands down your trousers...
-Getting semis.

...getting semis...
we're busting semis actually.

But what really is, and what I ask Allah

to keep us sincere on this path
and keep us firm.

Where are you
when the women are calling

in the jails getting raped
by these dirty Kuffars?

Where are you when we need
to start taking heads off?

So like I said I asked Allah

to keep us sincere in the land of jihad.

But I also invite you all
over to the land of jihad.

Allah akbar!

We deal with Glocks here.

We also deal in M4s and M16s.

In 2006 you could get a Glock for $ 1,200.
Today they cost $ 2,400.

We tell Arabs in ISIS territories

to buy Glocks and bring them here.

They're half the price there.

When the Iraqi army in Mosul was smashed,

people looted the armories.
Any child could grab five or six guns.

In 2006 everyone who joined the police

was issued a Glock.

Later they'd leave the police,
sell the Glock,

join the force again
and get another Glock.

Government didn't do anything
to stop that.

They were all corrupt.

You could help us.

Maybe you start doing this. You bring
Glocks from Austria, and we sell it here.

Maybe you start doing this.

You bring Glocks from Austria,
and we sell them here.

It would be nice to get a permit,
an international permit,

be a weapons supplier
for those conflicted areas.

So I'll be the master of the war.

This is a lot of money to supply, like,
the Peshmerga, for instance, 

to supply them with weapons.
You make lot of money.

You know who makes the Glocks.
You could talk to them to get me a permit.

You might not be able to get a permit
from them to be a weapons supplier.

But maybe you can talk to them get me
a permit and we'll be partners.

There's a lot of money in there.

And I'll make sure they won't get
in wrong hands.

Glock began production in the 1980s,
with 1,000 units a month.

Today 34,000 leave this factory
every week.

That's over 1.5 million guns a year,

supposed to stay out of the wrong hands.

Demand is on the rise.

Since 2015, even Austria has witnessed
a surge in private gun ownership.

Because of this increasing demand, Glock,

as stated in its annual report,

looks to the future with great optimism.