Paul M. Barrett > Quotes

“Referring to his success in engineering the appointment”
― Paul M. Barrett, Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win

“in the gun industry, all publicity is good publicity, and high-profile enmity from anti-gun forces is the best publicity of all.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the ‘not invented here’ syndrome, but also the ‘we don’t have the tooling’ syndrome. Why invent something new when you can simply modify what you have?”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“Super gun,’ can you imagine?” Karl Walter would muse more than two decades later. Shaking his head, he chuckled. “You can’t buy that kind of attention, not for $50 million, not for $100 million.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“A revolver, or “wheel gun,” has a cylinder that typically holds five or six rounds of ammunition.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“statue.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“Today the Glock is on the hip of more American police officers than any other handgun.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“as Gaston Glock himself put it in an interview: “That I knew nothing was my advantage.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“Rutherford’s view was that if some armed nut decided to take out his frustrations on the congregation, he wanted to be prepared.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“When American soldiers hauled Saddam Hussein from his underground hideout in 2003, the deposed Iraqi ruler came to the surface with a Glock.”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun

“five-pound trigger”
― Paul M. Barrett, Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun