Full Name Wilhelm Bubits Name Wilhelm Bubits | Occupation Inventor, gunsmith | |
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Born October 28, 1954 ( 1954-10-28 ) Lutzmannsburg, Austria | ||
Wilhelm Bubits (born October 28, 1954) in Lutzmannsburg, is an Austrian handgun designer and creator of the Caracal Pistol and Steyr Mannlicher M and S model pistols.
Biography
As a hobby shooter and former customs officer, Wilhelm Bubits used his experience and ideas about handguns to advance modern pistol design. Bubits worked for the Glock firearms company and in 1997 joined another Austrian weapons maker, Steyr Mannlicher. At Steyr, Bubits created the Steyr M and S pistols which were released to market beginning in 1999. In late 2002 Bubits worked with weapons experts from the United Arab Emirates in a UAE government sponsored "Small Arms Project" to develop a series of modern pistols. The result of the collaboration was the Caracal Pistol. Weapons manufacturer Caracal International was incorporated in Abu Dhabi at the end of 2006. Wilhelm Bubits currently heads Caracal's research and development team.