First Look: Firearms Guide 16th Edition

Everything you need to know about what’s inside your firearm.

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posted on September 24, 2025
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Firearms Guide 16th Edition

Impressum Media Inc. is releasing the 16th Edition of the "Firearms Guide" by Chris Mijic. This new edition contains a significantly updated guns and ammo reference guide with 2025 guns and ammo calibers added, along with 1,600 newly added gun schematics, blueprints, manuals and old guns and ammo catalogs.

An emphasis has been placed on adding original manuals and catalogs from iconic manufacturers such as Harrington & Richardson, Ithaca Gun Co., Iver Johnson, Merwin, Hulbert & Co., Hopkins & Allen, Remington, Mauser, Savage, Stevens, Winchester, Colt, Smith & Wesson, FN, Browning, Mossberg and many others.

Published since 2009 at firearmsguide.com for both gun enthusiasts and shooting industry professionals worldwide, Firearms Guide is the world’s largest gunsmithing library with 27,650 zoomable and printable high-resolution gun schematics, blueprints, gun manuals and old guns and ammo catalogs for all types of antique and modern guns. This library provides gunsmiths with 24/7 access to printable high-resolution gun schematics (exploded views, drawings or diagrams) with gun parts lists with original parts numbers, blueprints with dimensions for complete guns or gun parts, cross-sectional views, printable complete original gun manuals for antique and modern guns, old guns and ammo catalogs from 1800s to today, and an Ammunition Dimensions Guide.

The Guide also includes a Reference Guide that presents over 84,000 antique and modern firearms, air guns and ammunition with tech specs, high-resolution color pictures, features, ballistics, and prices from 1,820 manufacturers from 62 countries.

With its 14 search criteria like Year, Price, Action, Caliber, Country, Stock Type, and other, the Firearms Guide enables fast, complex searches of 84,000 antique and modern guns and side-by-side comparisons of search results. The guns are cross-referenced with the searchable Ammo Database with over 7,000 different rounds with ballistics and ammo pictures. There are also 60,000 high-resolution color pictures of guns in resolutions up to 4000x1492.

In addition to this, there is a Gun Value Guide that presents antique and modern guns with gun values online based on 100- to 30-percent condition ratings.

The New Firearms Guide Flash Drive 16th Edition is published as a cloud-based, searchable Online Edition for desktop, laptop and tablets and as a flash drive Windows users.

For more information on the Firearms Guide16th Edition, visit firearmsguide.com.

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