📚 Firearms

Handgun and long arm: the mechanisms, the safe handling, and the politics that orbit them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject firearms in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The gun collector's handbook of values	Charles Edward Chapel	1940	16
	The Anarchist Cookbook	William F. Powell	1971	13
	Gun and Its Development	W. W. Greener	1888	12
	The gun and its development	W. W. Greener	1881	11
	Small Arms of the World	W. H. B. Smith	1948	11
	Guide to antique American firearms and their values	Norm Flayderman	1977	10
	Gunnery In 1858	William Greener	1858	8
	Antique guns	Hank Wieand Bowman	1953	8
	That every man be armed	Stephen P. Halbrook	1984	8
	Gunpowder	Chris Oxlade	2011	8
	The identification of firearms and forensic ballistics	Sir Gerald Burrard	1934	7
	How to Kill	John Minnery	1970	7
	Handbook of firearms and ballistics	Brian J. Heard	1997	7
	Cartridges And Firearm Identification	Robert E. Walker	2012	7
	Elementary gunsmithing	Perry D. Frazer	1938	6
	Professional gunsmithing	Walter J. Howe	1946	6
	Best guns	Michael McIntosh	1989	6
	Guns, crime, and freedom	Wayne R. LaPierre	1994	6
	The gun digest book of modern gun values	Dan Shideler	2006	6
	Deanes' manual of the history and science of fire-arms ..	John Deane	1858	5
	Modern gunsmithing	Clyde Baker	1933	5
	The Gun digest book of modern gun values	Jack P. Lewis	1978	5
	Gun Show Nation	Joan Burbick	2006	5
	The Gun Digest book of firearms, fakes and reproductions	Rick Sapp	2008	5
	Tommy	Karen Blumenthal	2015	5
	Sharpshooters	Gary Yee	2017	5
	Science and Engineering of Small Arms	Prasanta Kumar Das	2021	5
	The modern gunsmith	James Virgil Howe	1934	4
	The age of firearms	Robert Held	1957	4
	Firearms	Howard L. Blackmore	1964	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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