Home Workshop Prototype Firearms : How To Design, Build, And Sell Your Own Small Arms (Home Workshop Guns for Defense & Resistance)

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Summary: I do not agreed with other reviews
Review: People who really know Bill Holes' books should understand that this book was never meant as a how to build book. I have all volumes of bill's home workshop guns for defense and resistance and this book is just not one of the series on how to build a gun, it is written as a supplement on the first 5, it is a book written in a general style concearning general gun issues. However, the book gives a nice idea of several subject concearning gun design, and bill gives some nice alternatives for some designing problems wich you might encounter. People tend to see bill as some form of gun messiah who gives away a nice design in every book for a few bucks, well, he is not, he is just an experienced gun disigner who designed some nice guns and gives a lot of practical designing ideas of his own mind in his books home workshop guns part 1 to 5. Finally, you people go out and try to find one decent gun design on the internet, let me tell you, there are none. Every info you can get on gun designs is valuable, including the info written in this book, so just buy it, it will be soon that books like these will be forbidden by the weak pacifist mass.

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Summary: I do not agreed with other reviews
Review: The author of this book prides himself of not having a formal education and it shows. You will find no useful technical information necessary to safely design, build, and test firearms.
What I didn't like about this book: Outdated information about firearms laws, hand drawn technical drawings (get a DELL dude), no information on new manufacturing technologies such as composite materials or CNC, total lack of technical information, single page on marketing of firearms. (There is more but I stop here)
What I did like about this book: It has a shiny cover.
If you are looking for real information on the engineering of firearms look elsewhere.

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Summary: Outdated by 20 Years
Review: The author of this book prides himself of not having a formal education and it shows. You will find no useful technical information necessary to safely design, build, and test firearms.
What I didn't like about this book: Outdated information about firearms laws, hand drawn technical drawings (get a DELL dude), no information on new manufacturing technologies such as composite materials or CNC, total lack of technical information, single page on marketing of firearms. (There is more but I stop here)
What I did like about this book: It has a shiny cover.
If you are looking for real information on the engineering of firearms look elsewhere.

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Summary: Before you order this book . . . .
Review: This book is nice reading if you already know what the gun trade is about, but it gives only minimal information on the actual construction of firearms. Too much talk and crude drawings do not really promote this publication. If you're after a nuts-and-bolts handbook for firearms construction, don't buy this one, but start off with something simple. P.T.Luty's book would be a useful alternative.