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Brassey's Essential Guide to Military Small Arms: Design Principles and Operating Methods
Brassey's UK, 1997
Good overview of small arms design, lots of formulas
+ CALCULATING SMALL ARMS DESIGN VARIABLES
As a broad treatise on small arms design this volume generally succeeds. It does not include every possible design, but has good coverage of the important ones. Since the main contributors are Czech it's particularly strong on East bloc designs including a few obscure ones, which is an interesting ...
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Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual For Military And Police Snipers
John Plaster
Paladin Press, 2006
Extremely detailed
+ Ol' Plaster did his Home Work.
+ Juba likes it.
+ Ultimate Sniper has been updated and expanded
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Military Small Arms of the 20th Century
Ian Hogg
Krause Publications, 2000
Most Comprehensive Ever!
+ Reference book even for non-shooters
+ Definitive
This is truly the first and last book when it comes to 20th century small arms. Ian Hogg does it again as he categorizes weapons by type then country. Every gun is included from WWI to 1990. This book is black and white but the photos are good, and he has some for some very rare guns. Each gun is ...
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Sniping in France
H. Hesketh-Prichard
R & R Books, 1996
A seminal book, of continuing relevance in the 1990s
+ Hesketh Pritchard was one of the greatest ever snipers
Despite some imperfections of style and editing, which may be accounted for by the fact that the author was more concerned about doing a job effectively rather than with the finer points of authorship and literary presentation - this is a key work on the emergence of sniping among the British and ...
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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
John R. Lott Jr.
University Of Chicago Press, 2000
Compelling ideas
+ More Guns DO = Less Crime, Particularly less violent crime
+ More Guns Less Crime
+ very informative
+ Crimes against unarmed citizens.
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The Gun Digest Book of Assault Weapons, Fifth Edition
Jack P. Lewis, David E. Steele, ...
Krause Publications, 2000
Tons of Info
This book has almost all the right things to be a hit. It has tons of pictures, gun tests, gun specifications, and hard to find information about guns never built. You can read it once and be amazed and then you can still pick it up and learn more. you can never stop learning from it. The ...
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The Black Rifle: M16 Retrospective (Modern US Military Small Arms Series- Volume Three)
R.Blake Stevens, Edward C. Ezell
Collector Grade Publications,Canada, 1992
Great book - but Amazon's price is outrageous
+ Super book; what it is and what it's not
+ WOW
+ Top of the Pops
+ Very technical book that tells the story
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Rifles of the World
John Walter
kp books, 1998
Excellent Reference
This book makes for excellent reference material for those thinking of investing in a great rifle or simply enthusiastic about the art of rifles today.Exhaustive gun list covering most commercial rifles of today and yesterday without wasting too many pages on worthless ballistic charts.Highly ...
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Bolt Action Rifles
Frank De Haas
Krause Publications, 1995
Very Useful
+ Worth the money
+ A Great Reference Book
+ Great Book!
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Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam
Michael Lee Col Lanning
Ballantine Books, 1998
Great research on the topic
I found this book to be excellent from an historic standpoint of what is a sniper and what do they do. It is not one that has lots of war stories but it does document what snipers did and how they did it. If youre looking of for a bunch of war stories then this isnt it. If youre looking for details ...
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Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam
Michael Lee Col Lanning
Ballantine Books, 1998
Great research on the topic
I found this book to be excellent from an historic standpoint of what is a sniper and what do they do. It is not one that has lots of war stories but it does document what snipers did and how they did it. If youre looking of for a bunch of war stories then this isnt it. If youre looking for details ...
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Military Small Arms of the 20th Century
Ian Hogg
Krause Publications, 2000
Most Comprehensive Ever!
+ Reference book even for non-shooters
+ Definitive
This is truly the first and last book when it comes to 20th century small arms. Ian Hogg does it again as he categorizes weapons by type then country. Every gun is included from WWI to 1990. This book is black and white but the photos are good, and he has some for some very rare guns. Each gun is ...
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Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual For Military And Police Snipers
John Plaster
Paladin Press, 2006
Extremely detailed
+ Ol' Plaster did his Home Work.
+ Juba likes it.
+ Ultimate Sniper has been updated and expanded
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The Gun Digest Book of Assault Weapons, Fifth Edition
Jack P. Lewis, David E. Steele, ...
Krause Publications, 2000
Tons of Info
This book has almost all the right things to be a hit. It has tons of pictures, gun tests, gun specifications, and hard to find information about guns never built. You can read it once and be amazed and then you can still pick it up and learn more. you can never stop learning from it. The ...
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Sniping in France
H. Hesketh-Prichard
R & R Books, 1996
A seminal book, of continuing relevance in the 1990s
+ Hesketh Pritchard was one of the greatest ever snipers
Despite some imperfections of style and editing, which may be accounted for by the fact that the author was more concerned about doing a job effectively rather than with the finer points of authorship and literary presentation - this is a key work on the emergence of sniping among the British and ...
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