Product Description

Since the publication of the first edition in 1996, Janes Guns Recognition Guide has sold over 55,000 copies worldwide. This new, fully updated third edition ensures its recognition as the most authoritative and comprehensive firearms handbook available. This full-colour, third edition features all new photographs and additional information on firearms today. The new format allows for a greater range of firearms, making it easy to distinguish the key features of the weapons. Foreword Pistols Revolvers Submachine Guns Bolt Action Rifles Automatic Rifles Machine Guns Manufacturers' Index Brand Name Index

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #391834 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
Co-authors Ian Hogg and Terry Gander. Ian Hogg passed away shortly before completing this edition and Terry Gander took over. Both authors are experts in firearms. Ian Hogg wrote both the first and second editions. Both authors have worked for Jane's Information Group as well as on Weapons titles.

Customer Reviews

Good, but not good enough!
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!

Good but not what I expected
This is a very good book, but it didn’t have all the firearms I expected, e.g. Steyr Scout and Remington 700, which are along the lines of what type of firearm this book has. It would have also been nice to have seen more information on the firearms, but saying that there is a lot there! I would have given this book a lower score because of the errors and the fact it lies on the cover as it says “Every firearm in use today”, which it obviously doesn’t, as it doesn’t even include under levers and well known tactical rifles like the Rem’e 700 and Steyr Scout. BUT there aren’t many books like this around and give information on this level, be it a smaller ‘I know what this weapon is and a little it about it’ level and NOT a detailed ‘that’s how it works’ or ‘smeg me it takes a 20mm cannon’ level.

Defiantly a book to have if your interests sway in this direction, but be warned it doesn’t have all the weapons you probably would like to read about, but hay, there is still a good amount there, and what this doesn’t have is gained by what it has! But, yes another but, if you are looking for pics and detailed information there is just too much in here for the author to have written about! Don’t let that put you off it is still a good but, I am just trying to give you a heads up.

not much changed
this book is much the same as the previous books only the size has changed it gives the basics but never mentions pro's/con's of weapons its users,diffrent models,too many pistols not many modern weapons the ex warsaw pact states weapons,new czech army rifle,hungarys AMD but has many obsolete pistols ww1 webleys, is very similar to the first two books
i was hoping for something new but did not get it,more new guns and less old that have been covered in every other book.