First Look: The Firearms Guide 15th Edition

Everything you've wanted to know about practically every gun ever made.

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posted on October 15, 2024
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The Firearms Guide 15th Edition

Impressum Media Inc. is releasing the 15th Edition of the Firearms Guide. This new edition contains a significantly updated guns and ammo reference guide with 2024 guns and ammo calibers added along with 2,233 newly added gun schematics, blueprints, manuals, firearms and ammunition catalogs.

Special 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 26,433 zoomable and printable hi-res gun schematics, blueprints, gun manuals, firearms and ammo catalogs for all types of antique and modern guns. 2,233 guns have been added just in the 15th Edition.

This huge gunsmithing library provides gunsmiths with 24/7 access to printable high-resolution gun schematics, exploded views, drawings and diagrams, as well as gun parts lists with original parts numbers, blueprints with dimensions for complete guns or gun parts. This includes cross-sectional views, printable complete original gun manuals for antique and modern guns as well as firearms and ammunitions catalogs from the 1800s through today, as well as an guide to ammunition dimensions for cases and bullets.

The Firearms Guide contains over 80,000 antique and modern firearms, air guns and ammunition types with technical specifications, high-resolution pictures, ballistic information and prices from 1,770 manufacturers in 62 different countries. There are 14 different search criteria such as years of manufacture, price, action, caliber, country and more. Guns can be compared side by side and are cross-referenced with the searchable ammunition database that contains over 7,000 different rounds. In addition to this, there are over 60,000 high-resolution color pictures of guns and a gun value guide that presents antique and modern guns with gun values based on 100-30 percent condition ratings.

The new Firearms Guide Flash Drive 15th Edition is published in two formats:

  • A cloud-based, searchable online edition and a flash drive edition for Windows PCs. The Flash Drive Edition is an offline standalone Windows app that runs from a flash drive.
  • The new 15th Edition of the Firearms Guide is available at your local firearms retailer with a 6-month activation card.

“When purchased in the gun shop, these new Firearms Guide Activation Cards enable a buyer to anonymously activate and use the newest Firearms Guide Online Edition for 6 months,” says Chris Mijic, publisher of Firearms Guide. “Firearms Guide Online Edition Activation Card is a new way gun publications are now sold in gun shops and how gun shop owners can offer modern products to their customers and have repeated sales to raise shop revenue."

More information on the 15th edition of the Firearms Guide is available at firearmsguide.com.

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