Once upon a time (early 1980s) militaries around the world were looking to update their sidearms. In Austria the Browning Hi-Power was the chosen sidearm for the Austrian Military, but they wanted something new. Steyr, an Austrian arms maker decided to create a new pistol just for this competition.
What they created was an 18 round 9mm, gas delayed pistol that, while very well designed and built, still lost to the then new Glock 17.
The pistol Steyr built was called the GB, standing for Gas Bremse (Gas Brake).
Steyr also entered the US Military competition a year or two later and lost that competition to the Beretta M92.
Sometime during all of this Steyr's US importer got their hands on some drawings or a preproduction sample and decided to build the GB stateside. Details are not clear on whether this was a licensed copy or a poorly designed unlicensed clone.
The importer was a company called LES Manufacturing in Morton Grove, Illinois. What they produced was a pistol that barely worked and was basically a fixed barrel blow back 9mm.
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After a short time, the guns were no longer being produced, again details are fuzzy, we are not sure if Steyr sued them or pulled their license or if it was the local township outlawing the manufacture of guns within their borders. Either way only a few thousand of these pistols were produced.
What Remains:
The gun is universally thought of as a joke, look at any auction and you will see they are sold as a novelty, not a serious weapon.
Nailing down the place where the Rogak was produced was difficult, the ad above shows an address of 2301 N. Davis Street, North Chicago. That address doesn't exist, at least not anymore. The closest I found was the home of King Wire, which occupies a massive warehouse.
