Grand Power Q1S, Q100 and X-Calibur @ SHOT 2018

The K100 was released before the Px4. However, I think the Steyr-Hahn is a rotating bbl as well which pre-dates both by quite a while.

Beretta also had the Cougar, but yeah the Steyr-Hahn preceded them all by most of a century.
 
I've owned a couple of GP's in the past but they just don't do anything exceptionally well. GP may have found more traction if their products were competitively priced. Not many will choose the GP offerings over similarly priced firearms (Shadow 2>X-Calibur or M&P>Q-100 etc.).
 
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The K100 was released before the Px4. However, I think the Steyr-Hahn is a rotating bbl as well which pre-dates both by quite a while.

Very true. The owner of Grand Power spend his summers as a child taking his grandfather's Steyr apart, trying to find the magic inside and imagining how he would build his own. The roller bearing in the frame making contact with a wide cam path on the barrel is an elegant approach. The others use a lug on the barrel riding in a slot on the frame for rotation that requires more slop for reliability.
 
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