 Then in the early 1980s, he got word that the Austrian military was looking for its next pistol. And he said, well, I'll volunteer. I'll design a new pistol, which made no sense to anybody since he had no background designing firearms. But he is a master delegator and assembles a crack team to make his dream pistol a reality. And the end product is a half-plastic, mean little brick of a gun. It's ugly, but very reliable and stupidly simple to use.