Gun Encyclopedia - Useful site for Authors

[beren_writes]

Author's Note: This is a repost from my other blog, but I thought a gun encyclopedia would be useful to some so I've posted it here as well.

So I'm currently writing a short story with a character who is an assassin and I wanted her to use handguns. Since I know nothing about handguns at all I turned to Google and this really useful site popped up. It has everything you could possibly need to know about guns and ammo. of the 20th Century.

World Guns


I thought I'd pass it on because these are the kind of resources I know we writers are always after. I suspect many of you have found it already, but I hadn't so for those that also haven't here is the link.

I had no idea there were so many different types of gun out there; it's all a little scary really. The site gives run downs on what a type of gun is as well, so if you want to know the difference between a submachine gun and a machine gun, this is the site for you.

The site is in English and Russian.

This is a list of the categories the site has:

• Handguns
  
• Submachine guns
  
• Military Rifles
  
• Assault Rifles
  
• Sniper Rifles
  
• Civilian Rifles
  
• Shotguns
  
• Machine guns
  
• Anti-tank rifles
  
• Grenade launchers
  
• Ammunition
  
• Traumatic Weapons