Guns Recognition Guide: Every firearm in use today (Jane’s) (Jane's Recognition Guides)

A good reference guide, though less good as a cover-to-cover read.

For a general quick. recognition guide , it is superb , quality description and photos ,as you come to expect from Janes . Book is just the right size to keep in jacket pocket .Highly recommended

A book about guns

Great informative book

Sold as slightly used, arrived in great condition, this book is a great reference guide to weapons which may be encountered by security service personnel, despite being about 10 years behind, it is nevertheless a good read. My only real problem is with the rather annoying index system, which makes looking up specific weapons quickly a bit of a trial. I am not in service, I'm just a nerd who likes military gear, I still got a lot of interesting facts from this book!

This book is a comprehensive guide to firearms, and does seem to cover the majority of firearms in use today. It of course, does not include shotguns, because these are not stictly firearms. there is a few mistakes with pictures and some details regarding the history of the guns, but that is to be expected with a book of this much depth and range. Does exactly what is says on the cover.

First of all the description of the book on the front cover 'every firearm in use today' is a little far-fetched, I don't mean it hasn't got all the kalashnikov copies and variants, I mean it doesn't give information on some of the other famous guns; Like the Walther P99 or a least a picture of a Mp5 and where's the shotguns? All in all it is a very good and comprehensive book with lots of useful information and some dark humour (athough for the next edition it should include a decent glossary)though it should be a slightly bigger format.

As a book which is advertised as being an essential guide for those who need to be able to recognise weapons, customs officers, police etc. It just doesn't cut it! At first it appears to be an excellent guide to recognition, not cluttered by too much detail of the tech specs of each weapon, however once you scratch the surface the errors start to appear. In the cover picture, should the cocking handle of the MP5k be on the right?Pictures that are quite obviously not of the weapons claimed (FN CAL), weapons wrongly named (Barrett M90 labelled as M82a1), write ups that don't match the weapon (M16a2) and there are many more.I counted nearly 50 mistakes in this book, and for a book by Ian Hogg this just isn't good enough.Enough of the negatives now, this book does the job that it is intended for, and the section in the back about markings on weapons has helped me ID many obscure old/ rare revolvers and other weapons.Hopefully the new 2002 edition of this book will have rectified these faults and will cut the mustard with those in the know!