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Table of Contents

  • Contents

  • Pistols & Revolvers

  • Introduction

  • Wheellock pistols

  • Wheellock pistol

  • Flintlock pistols 1550–1700

  • DICK TURPIN

  • Flintlock pistols 1700–1775

  • Ottoman Empire firearms

  • Indian firearms

  • BLACKBEARD

  • Flintlock pistols 1775–1800

  • Colt

  • Flintlock pistols 1800–1850

  • Percussion-cap pistols

  • Colt Model 1851

  • US Percussion-cap revolvers 1850–1900

  • WYATT EARP

  • British Percussion-cap revolvers 1850–1900

  • Brass cartridge revolvers

  • Smith & Wesson

  • Early self-loading pistols

  • Mauser C/96

  • Self-loading pistols 1900–1920

  • Self-loading pistols 1920–1945

  • Beretta

  • Self-loading pistols 1920–1945 (cont.)

  • Self-loading pistols 1945–

  • Glock 17

  • Self-loading pistols 1945– (cont.)

  • DIRTY HARRY

  • Revolvers 1900–1945

  • Webley & Scott Mark VI

  • Revolvers 1945–

  • JAMES BOND

  • Decorated handguns

  • RIFLES & MUSKETS

  • Introduction

  • Earliest firearms

  • Arquebuses & hook guns

  • European muskets

  • 17th century musket

  • Asian matchlocks

  • Wheellock rifles

  • Early flintlock rifles

  • TIMOTHY MURPHY

  • Flintlock muskets & rifles

  • Brown Bess

  • Ottoman firearms

  • Indian firearms

  • Other Asian firearms

  • Enfield rifle musket

  • Percussion-cap rifles

  • Percussion-cap breechloaders

  • Sharps carbine

  • Percussion-cap breechloaders (cont.)

  • Single-shot breechloaders

  • Dreyse Needle Gun

  • Manual repeater rifles 1775–1880

  • Winchester

  • Manual repeater rifles 1880–1890

  • ANNIE OAKLEY

  • Manual repeater rifles 1890–1900

  • Lee-Enfield No.4 Mark 1

  • Manual repeater rifles 1900–1945

  • Sniper rifles

  • VASILY ZAITSEV

  • Sniper rifles

  • Self-loading rifles 1900–1945

  • BONNIE AND CLYDE

  • Self-loading rifles 1945–

  • Heckler & Koch G3A3

  • Self-loading rifles 1945–

  • AK-47 assault rifle

  • SPORT RIFLES & SHOTGUNS

  • Introduction

  • European hunting guns

  • Sport rifles

  • FREDERICK COURTNEY SELOUS

  • Hunting guns

  • Survival guns 1945–

  • Early combat shotguns

  • Combat shotguns

  • Sport shotguns

  • Holland & Holland

  • SPECIALIST GUNS

  • Introduction

  • Combination weapons

  • Early multi-shot firearms

  • Multi-shot firearms

  • Anti-tank weapons

  • Taser Gun

  • Rifle-mounted grenade launchers

  • Stand-alone grenade launchers

  • Missile launchers

  • Mechanical-electrical guns

  • Special Operations Executive

  • Gentry guns

  • Covert forces guns

  • Silenced guns

  • Concealed spy guns

  • Improvised guns

  • Prototype guns

  • MACHINE GUNS & SUBMACHINE GUNS

  • Introduction

  • Early battery & machine guns

  • Gatling Gun

  • Recoil-operated machine guns

  • Gas-operated machine guns

  • Steyr-Mannlicher

  • Light machine guns 1900–1945

  • Light machine guns 1945–

  • Bren Gun

  • Light machine guns 1945– (cont.)

  • Submachine guns

  • PPSh41

  • Submachine guns (cont.)

  • AL CAPONE

  • Submachine guns (cont.)

  • Heckler & Koch MP5

  • Glossary

  • Index

  • Acknowledgments

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