BIBLIOGRAPHY
FIREARM BLUEPRINTS
GLOSSARY
SOME THINGS ARE STILL FREE
In the course of researching the topics treated on this website, we come across materials that we find exceptionally useful and may be of interest to our readers.
This page includes a bibliography covering the design, making and testing of guns and ammunition. In composing the bibliography, it has been our goal to consolidate the most complete possible list of information resources which will assist the attentive student in his or her quest to design and fabricate guns and ammunition. For each work cited, we have made our best efforts to locate a source from which our readers may obtain a copy. A few 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.) This bibliography will grow as we locate additional useful information, and you may wish to check back from time to time to view more inclusive versions of this document.
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. We also intend to add to this blueprint collection as new drawings are found and digitized.
The glossary has not yet been developed to a state that is suitable for publication, but it will be offered for download on this page when it reaches the appropriate state. Our goal is to place it before the public on or before February 1, 2026. It will also be a “work in progress,” as we intend to continually update it, just we propose to do with our bibliography and firearm blueprint collection.