Pistols, Revolvers, and Ammunition

Introduction: This book is intended to fill what has long appeared to us an enormous gap in the Englishlanguage literature of handguns. That a breach might exist in such a dense thicket of bound and illustrated prose may seem cause for surprise, and therefore justifies a word of explanation. Handgun literature is rich in hyperspecialized works an particular brands and models of guns of interest to advanced collectors. However, many beginning students of the handgun, lacking the foundation and overall context which such books presuppose, find them virtually impenetrable. Often enough the authors of these imposing tomes aggravate the situation by concentrating an minute variations of the model that interests them, to the near exclusion of the mechanical principles and historical importance of their subject...