Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Gun books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
1. 40th Edition Blue Book of Gun Values (2019)
This new 40th Anniversary edition features a throwback cover style that pays homage to the very 1st Edition Blue Book of Gun Values and includes all the new 2019 makes and models, along with important pricing updates on many current and discontinued models. For the first time in decades, many values on collectible firearms, especially AR-15s, have gone down significantly – this new 40th edition carefully tracks this recent trend. 2,512 pages are included on nearly 1,700 manufacturers/trademarks, with almost 30,000 gun model descriptions, and over 180,000 values! Over 45…
2. Gun Digest 2020, 74th Edition: The World’s Greatest Gun Book! (2019)
has been the No. 1 go-to source and research guide for firearms enthusiasts worldwide. Informative and entertaining articles by the top writers in the field cover every aspect of guns and shooting, including hunting, personal defense, target practice, gunmaking and collecting. Historical articles provide a look at the role played by firearms in our country and around the world. Reports from the Field provide details on the newest firearms and accessories. And we present our annual photo essay spotlighting the finest custom and engraved guns. Gun Digest is the most comprehensive collection of firearms information in…
3. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (2017)
“Fascinating…. Lays a foundation for understanding human history.”―Bill Gates In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion –as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war –and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that…
4. Gun Digest 2019, 73rd Edition: The World’s Greatest Gun Book! (2018)
has been the No. 1 go-to source and research guide for firearms enthusiasts worldwide. Informative and entertaining articles by the top writers in the field cover every aspect of guns and shooting, including hunting, personal defense, target practice, gunmaking and collecting. Historical articles provide a look at the role played by firearms in our country and around the world. Reports from the Field provide details on the newest firearms and accessories. And we present our annual photo essay spotlighting the finest custom and engraved guns. is the most comprehensive collection of…
5. No Guns Life, Vol. 1 (1) (2019)
Ex-soldier Juzo Inui has one question–who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories?After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun! With no memory of his previous life—or who replaced his head and why—Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver, taking on cases involving the Extended. When a fellow Extended showed up in Inui’s office—on the run from the Security Bureau with a kidnapped child in tow and asking for help—Inui almost throws the guy out….
6. Gun Sense: Massachusetts Gun Law Information and Common Sense Firearm Safety (2019)
From the ForewordMark Shean’s “Gun Sense” is in reality a series of numbered and un-numbered articles assembled into a book. In 2018, after one of Mark’s License to Carry (LTC) classes, he was talking about wanting to take his blog and turn it into an E-book. There was a desire to be able to reach a wider audience and make it easier for his students to follow along with him/review the material. Mark Shean comes to readers with a combination of over 55 years of firearms, NRA LE Instructor and Nuclear security experience. Though originally from Maine, Mark has been…
7. Toys, Tools, Guns & Rules: A Children’s Book About Gun Safety (2018)
We talk to kids about the dangers of fire, drugs, strangers, drowning, and more—but not about guns. There are hundreds of millions of firearms in the United States alone. We must talk with our children about guns and firearm safety to protect them and help prevent deaths and injuries. World champion professional shooter, firearms instructor, and mother Julie Golob helps you start this crucial conversation with her children’s book about gun safety. Toys, Tools, Guns & Rules helps parents break the ice with kids about this taboo topic by comparing firearms to other potentially dangerous adult tools. Colorful illustrations help…
8. Johnny Got His Gun: A Novel (1984)
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. . . . This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome . . . but so is war. “[It is] very hard to write about Johnny Got His Gun without being guilty of understatement or hysterics. It is a terrifying book, of…
9. Negroes with Guns (2013)
2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of his movement, first established in Monroe, N.C. As prologue, the issues raised by events in Monroe are weighted by Truman Nelson and Martin Luther King Jr. Illustrated….
10. Gun Trader’s Guide, Fortieth Edition: A Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Guide to Modern Collectible Firearms with Current Market Values (2018)
If you are seeking a comprehensive reference for collectible gun values, the Gun Trader’s Guide is the only book you need. For more than half a century, this guide has been the standard reference for collectors, curators, dealers, shooters, and gun enthusiasts. Updated annually, it remains the definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith &…
11. The Politics of Gun Control (2017)
The new edition of this classic text covers the latest developments in American gun policy, including shooting incidents plaguing the American landscape–especially the Orlando nightclub shootings, the San Bernardino incident, and the ongoing legacy of Sandy Hook–placing them in context with similar recent events. The incidents described in the book sparked a wave of gun control legislation at local, state, and national levels, some of which was successful, some doomed and all controversial. Robert J. Spitzer has long been a recognized authority on gun…
12. The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I (2004)
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players,…
Best Gun Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Genesis and download some gun books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Bomber Legends : Aerial Gunner Training
Author(s): Kelsey McMillan
Publisher: Bomber Legends eMagazine, Year: не указан, Size: 13 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2146859
Expert Angular
Author(s): Mathieu Nayrolles, Rajesh Gunasundaram, Sridhar Rao
Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: July 2017, Size: 10 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2362856
Masters of the Air: The Great War Pilots McLeod, McKeever, and MacLaren
Author(s): Roger Gunn
Publisher: Dundurn, Year: 7 Dec 2019, Size: 9 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2449814
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Author(s): Serhii Plokhy
Publisher: Basic Books, Year: 6 Dec 2016, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2447669
Community Equity Audits: Communities and Schools Working Together to Eliminate the Opportunity Gap
Author(s): Kathryn Bell McKenzie, J. Martyn Gunn, Talitha Agan, Campbell John Bullock, Amelia Herrera-Evans
Publisher: Corwin, Year: 4 Dec 2019, Size: 11 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2448941
Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author(s): Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar
Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Year: 29 Nov 2018, Size: 43 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2394002
Essentials of medical genetics for nursing and health professionals : an interprofessional approach
Author(s): Gunder McClary, Laura M.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, Year: 2020, Size: 26 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2321172
Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Landscapes: Best Practices and Perspectives Across Europe and the Middle East
Author(s): Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Branka Cuca, Athos Agapiou, Vasiliki Lysandrou, Rosa Lasaponara, Nicola Masini, Gunter Schreier
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 27 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2407004
Gun Control Policies in Latin America
Author(s): Diego Sanjurjo
Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2020, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408210
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really best-sellers according to USA Today, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.