Grand Power
History
OUR MILESTONES
Therefore, he addressed the banks. He wanted to borrow USD 10 mil.. And failed. Mostly, he was laughed at or he was put off “If you have the patent and idea, it´s not enough. You are not interested for us.” At the end, private investors – friends helped, and the company grew. It was 2012. The K1 changed into K100 – it got its name after its inventor and constructer. “K” as the first letter in the surname and “100” as the actual weight of Jaroslav Kuracina. However, own production capacities were insufficient; therefore the weapon was made by Kops Detva according to drawings of Jaroslav Kuracina.
At the beginning, he was the only one in his company. Gradually, the company developed, new people came… new ideas… A new production hall was obtained. The K100 Pistol acquired it reputation also among the shooting community. Also, reviews in professional journals did positive advertising for the K100. The company started approaching foreign distributors. Initially, they were very careful, but when they tried the quality of K100, the cooperation started. Negotiations with the company STI International started in 2007. Following the visit of the owner of the company and auditing of our products, the BATF approval was implemented at the US markets, and in 2008, the first weapons were transported to the USA. Those were K 100 Mk6, under the commercial name GP6. The offer was extended to other models, such as STI GP 6C, GP5 and calibre.22 LR called STI GP2.
When Jaroslav Kuracina filed for his patent, they thought he was crazy. However, 12 years passed and it is only Jaroslav Kuracina having a reason to laugh.
Today, when producing weapons, the company GRAND POWER is 100% self-supporting, in terms of mechanical machining, thanks to own production plant. We use the latest 4- and 5 axis machining centers with an accuracy of +/-0.005mm and high productivity. Heat treatments and surface treatments, as well as molded plastic and metal parts, springs and pins are provided by our subcontractors.
Currently, the company has eighty own employees, than next tens of people work at our subcontractors. More than two thousand pieces of guns leave the production per month. The most favorite is the T12 model /Russia/, K100 and aslo X-Calibur.
Today, Grand Power produces more models of pistols X-Calibur, K100, K100 Target, K100 X-Trim, K100 Dynamic, P1, P1 Ultra,P1 DAO, P11, P380, CP380, LP380, P40, P45, P40L, P1S, K22, K22 X-Trim, P9M, T910, T10. T12, T11, G9, K105, K102, K100 Whisper a P380 Whisper
The uniqueness of our weapons lies especially in the unique patent-protected design of slide locking system by rotating the barrel. This locking method increases the comfort of shooting, mainly in two ways – it significantly eliminates the lift of the gun after shooting and the gun “will not kick”. The force applied on the hand of the shooter after the shot is significantly lower than with guns of comparable caliber. Certainly, this also includes good price and express service for all models.
Recently, the company exports almost 95% of its production. The remaining 5% are sold in Slovakia.
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