Ex-Glock Exec: Out of Prison and Spitting Bullets

Once upon a time, Paul Jannuzzo embodied the U.S. firearm industry. Recently sprung from prison, he’s gunning for Glock GmbH, the Austrian pistol manufacturer he once served as an executive and in-house lawyer. Jannuzzo says that he and his attorneys are researching a potential civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution against his former employer and its founder and owner, Gaston Glock, who resides in southern Austria.

I recently met Jannuzzo for lunch in Savannah, Ga., where he and his wife, Monika, also a former Glock employee, have been decompressing since the Georgia Court of Appeals last month reversed his conviction for embezzling from the gun company and ordered him released. In the 1990s, Jannuzzo, a former prosecutor, debated gun-control advocates on national television, fought municipal lawsuits against the firearm industry, and, in anomalous moment, irritated the National Rifle Association by visiting the White House to pose for a Rose Garden photo with President Bill Clinton.