Throwing Lead

If you write fiction, you have to know about them--but what if you don't have any formal training, or a job that brings you into regular contact with firearms?

Sure, you could watch a lot of CSI, but as you'll quickly discover upon cracking open this volume, you can't trust everything you see on TV.

Entertaining and humorous in style, Throwing Lead shows you the gestalt of guns, showing you the history of small arms in one readable, accessible, graphics-rich and easy-to-reference volume. Pack...