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    Looking for firearm dictionaries/glossaries

    Greetings and felicitations. I am looking for English-language firearm dictionaries/glossaries/lexicons—not encyclopedias of firearms per se, but books of gun terminology. I own two of the ones listed here in the "Further reading" section and have just ordered copies of the other two (the ones by Olson and by Petzal). (The cover of Shooter's Bible Small Arms Lexicon and Concise Encyclopedia, the only one the Internet Archive does not have.)

    Am I missing any? I started this because I'm looking for the book that was in my high school library over thirty years ago, and none of these four look familiar (though I'll be glad to have them).

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    I may have a book like you seek. I'll have to check.

    Well crap,, I must have already sold the book I was thinking of. My apologies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by contender1 View Post
    I may have a book like you seek. I'll have to check.

    Well crap,, I must have already sold the book I was thinking of. My apologies.
    That's okay. I'm just looking for information (author, title, ISBN, etc.)—I didn't expect receive it from anyone, by purchase, trade, or otherwise.

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    I do have a book on proof marks & such. Any interest in the info on it?

    Also,, I'll see what I can dig up. I do have a lot of books etc. & enjoy chasing information.

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    Quote Originally Posted by contender1 View Post
    I do have a book on proof marks & such. Any interest in the info on it?
    No, but thank you. ^_^

    Quote Originally Posted by contender1 View Post
    Also,, I'll see what I can dig up. I do have a lot of books etc. & enjoy chasing information.
    So do I. ^_^ I will warn you that the books in the Wikipedia article were all that I could find (I added the missing ones to the section before posting) in the Library of Congress catalog and the Internet Archive.

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