The Glock 17 and the win-or-die M.O.

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pivotal · UNDATED (~B.S. tour years)

When: from his first appearance onward (~B.S. 2000-01)
What: Clipperton owned an immaculately maintained Glock 17 semiautomatic in a blond-wood case with German High-Gothic script and a velvet gun-shaped concavity, and he carried it onto court with his towels and gear, making clear from his first appearance his intention to blow his own brains out publicly, on court, if he ever lost even once — lending "Win or Die in the Attempt" a grotesquely literal sense.