Designs such as the Mauser Broomhandle, the Luger, the Mauser M1910/1914/1934 that were state of the art in their day, had long production runs but that manufacturers and later designers found to be over complicated to manufacture and to disassemble and reassemble and while desired by collectors have resulted in no modern recreations. Interarms sort of revived the Luger-the Parabellum, there were the Astra lookalikes and Chinese copies of the Broomhandle, but no revivals like the cap and ball revolvers, the new versions of the S&Ws. I have a M1914 Mauser, a CZ-27, both are well made, good shooters, but have poor ergonomics, somewhat tricky takedown, features such the removal of an empty magazine allowing a locked back slide to go forward and hard to engage and release safeties.
The rotating barrel doesn't seem to have caught on, the H&K P7 is long out of production, the blow forward action-the Schwarzlose, e.g., loading from stripper clips-the Broomhandle, the M1912 Steyr Hahn, etc. The Dardick was a good example of what Jeff Cooper called "an ingenious solution to a non-existent problem", the Gyrojet-?
The rotating barrel doesn't seem to have caught on, the H&K P7 is long out of production, the blow forward action-the Schwarzlose, e.g., loading from stripper clips-the Broomhandle, the M1912 Steyr Hahn, etc. The Dardick was a good example of what Jeff Cooper called "an ingenious solution to a non-existent problem", the Gyrojet-?