01034nam a22002297a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260507104226.0 ta 260507s2025 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781626691988 1626691983 spa BJBSDDR eng P971i 2025 Pruitt, Daniel 48332 The illustrated encyclopedia of guns : a worldwide collection of fire arms from Hand-Cannons and Flintlocks to Revolvers, Rifles and Semi-Automatics / Daniel Pruitt New York : Moseley Road Inc, 2025 256 pages : illustrations ; 29cm From Hand Cannons to high-tech anti-materiel sniper rifles, the imperative of the weapons designer has always been to produce a weapon that is faster, deadlier, and more effective than the weapon in the hands of the opponent. This book traces the development of Guns from prehistory to the battlefields of the twenty-first century lcc 0 BK cmc 127019 127019 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-05-07 0 P971i 2025 00000199767 2026-05-07 10:43:07 1 2026-05-07 BK