User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Gunlances/@comment-1011548-20130129073833/@comment-5853890-20130130042437

As of my knowledge on monster hunter weaponery, there is a few status GL in MH2/MHFU as said above but however I believe there is none in MHp3rd.

GL=better elemental power

Lance=better status inflecting

That is what I see so far in the trend between the two.