Foreword
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Essential Weapon Facts
Chapter 2 Weapons Myths
Chapter 3 Ammunition History and Facts
Chapter 4 Ammunition Myths
Chapter 5 Things that go Boom
Acknowledgements
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Everything you want to know, don't want to know, and don't know you need to know about weapons.
A complete guide to weapons history, facts, myths and trivia, Gordon Rottman offers a step by step guide through interesting weapon facts and statistics, including a section on ammunition, while breaking apart popular myths and misconceptions.
Covering subjects from weapons designations to the longest serving military rifles, where rifles get their names from and everything in between, Osprey is proud to present The Big Book of Gun Trivia.

Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments before retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas.