Jane's Guns Recognition Guide 5e |  | Authors: Richard D. Jones, Andrew White
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 86345
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061374083
Dewey Decimal Number: 683
EAN: 9780061374081
ASIN: 0061374083
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
The most comprehensive, authoritative guide to identifying firearms includes: - Pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, machine guns, bolt-action and automatic rifles, and shotguns
- Technical specifications
- Manufacturers and brand names index
- Firearm safety information
- More than 400 photographs
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 good book August 10, 2010
David Call (Maine)
good book , small enough to take to gun shows on keep in the car or truck
Using the right tools for the job June 8, 2010
Jeffrey L. Knop (Kabul, Afghanistan)
I work as a Senior Weapons Analyst in the Security Assistance Office in Afghanistan. I often encounter FWP Weapons, components and equipment from around the World which somehow ended up here. The Janes Guns recognition Guide is an invalueable tool which I use to help identify some of the more obscure weapons. Great value and a super "Pocket-sized" reference when in the field.
Superb reference book on the subject of modern firearms. March 21, 2010
Alan Edward Creager (Henrico, VA, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jane's Guns Recognition Guide, 5th Edition, was first published in 2008 and has 464 pages. By my estimation, it contains information on 104 pistols, 46 revolvers, 61 submachine guns, 37 bolt-action rifles, 75 automatic rifles, 17 shotguns, and 57 machine guns, followed by a manufacturer's and brand name's index. It is a cold, humorless book full of lots and lots of cold, humorless facts. Not that it should be otherwise- it is a reference book on objects that were designed solely to take lives. When talking about firearms, one should always be nothing short of serious. Each profile on each firearm contains a picture- some are color and some are not- the name of the weapon, its country of origin, a description, and a list of specifications: cartridge, dimensions, in production, markings, safety, unloading. If you want information on a wide range of weapons, this is one of the best, if not the best, book available. It will no doubt be useful and relevant years after the 6th Edition is out. If you want a huge, in-depth description and history of each weapon, this book won't have what you are looking for. To do that would make this book comparable to the size of the Library of Congress. In its field and class- a general reference book on firearms- this book is superb. I highly recommend it, but I urge persons considering buying it to pay due attention to its limitations. It does not have the answers to the life, the universe, and everything of modern firearms. Well, maybe it does. But only a quarter of it.
 Great coverage but to little information June 4, 2009
Fredrik Granlund (Mariehamn, Åland)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
For the occasional reader or gun aficionado this book has it all; a wide range of weapons from around the world, detailed illustrations and basic data. But as a gun recognition guide it falls short of being complete in any sense.
To be really useful you'd need more info on safety features (preferably with schematics), more raw data on markings and serial numbers, photographs covering more angles, production data and manufacturing locations. And so on.
The best you'll find January 13, 2009
K. Bouma (USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a fully comprehensive guide for the most inspired gun freak. It has pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, submachine guns, and bolt action. This book covers it all!
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