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DocWatson
03-10-2022, 03:32 AM
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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_firearms_terms#Further_reading) 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 (https://www.amazon.com/images/I/71KHLXnJRBL.jpg), 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).

contender1
03-10-2022, 09:59 AM
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.

DocWatson
03-11-2022, 03:30 AM
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.

contender1
03-11-2022, 10:19 AM
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.

DocWatson
03-16-2022, 03:17 AM
I do have a book on proof marks & such. Any interest in the info on it?
No, but thank you. ^_^


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.