BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GUN TECHNOLOGY
GLOSSARY OF FIREARMS TERMINOLOGY
GUN BLUEPRINTS
SOME THINGS ARE STILL FREE
In the course of researching the topics treated in this website, we come across materials that we find exceptionally useful and may be of interest to our readers. These materials are either in the public domain, or permission to distribute them has been granted by the copyright owners. Here, you will find books, periodicals, articles, and drawings.
This page includes a bibliography covering the design, making and testing of guns and ammunition, and also a glossary of terms related to this subject. In composing the bibliography, it has been our goal to consolidate the most complete possible list of books and other information sources which will assist the attentive student in his or her quest to design and fabricate guns and ammunition. For each book cited, we have made our best efforts to locate a source from which our readers may obtain a copy. Some of these volumes are in the public domain, and we therefore have linked those titles to collections where they may be downloaded for free (e.g., archive.org, the Hathi Trust, Google Books, etc.)
The materials we make available on this page are, for the most part, in the public domain due to their age. This means that they reflect old technology which may no longer used commercially. However, we provide them to our readers because they illustrate processes which may be useful on a small scale, or they show processes which we envision as easily adaptable to scaled down fabrication techniques.
The blueprints provided should be approached with a certain degree of caution. Their origins are unknown, though they appear to be a mix of development sketches, and in some cases bid drawings put out by the agencies of various governments. The point to this is that any given drawing almost certainly represents one of the developmental stages of the weapon it covers, but there is no guarantee that it shows the weapon as it was eventually put into production.