5-foot steps and firearm reloading

[GalacticCow]

I have a relatively quick question.

One of the players in my campaign is a gunslinger with the Rapid Reload feat. This lets them reload their pistol as a move action.

The 5-foot step in the Combat section of the CRB states that "You can move 5 feet in any round when you don't perform any other kind of movement."

Is reloading a pistol with the RR feat considered a "kind of movement"? Or can the gunslinger reload, shoot, and take 5-foot step on the same turn?

[Durngrun Stonebreaker]

No, that means actual movement, not move actions.

[Nefreet]

If your character actually moves from one square to another (walk, fly, run, swim, charge, whatever), then they cannot utilize a five foot step.

Move-equivalent actions do not count as actual movement. Only the action type is the same.

Standing up from prone, actively using the Perception skill, or Reloading a firearm, despite all being move-equivalent actions, still allows you to take a five foot step, since your character did not move actual distance.

This general rule, of course, has exceptions, just in case anyone was thinking of posting any.