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For technical knowledge there are a couple books/manual series you should be able to find in your library or used bookstore.
One is the Gun Digest's Firearms Assembly/Disassembly series. They are like the Chilton's for guns. There's nothing like seeing how to tear something down to figure out how it all works together. No need to buy them new.
http://www.amazon.com/Digest-Book-Firearms-Assembly-Disassembly/dp/0873417836
The second are the yearly Gun Digest's and Shooter's Bible's themselves. Collections of articles on various gun's histories and technical specs and listings of pretty much every gun offered each year.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b...ch-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=gun+digest
The NRA's American Rifleman magazine has a good mix of articles on new guns, old guns, gun maintenance and modification and politics as well. Other gun mags vary wildly in signal to noise.
I mentioned library and used for the gun books because they are reference books, read 'em and absorb them and move on, don't buy them new. While you are in the section you will also probably see various comprehensive histories of guns, B&N usually has some in their bargain racks, those can be a good overview as well. Heck, History Channel's "History of the Gun" is overall a pretty accurate resource.
The way most folks learn about guns, is as was said, hang out with gun people. Be aware though that there's as much nonsense circulated around gun shop counters as the old general store stove.
The modern "hanging out at the gun store" are the internet forums. Reading and lurking. There are some intelligent and thoughtful people of every stripe (political and otherwise, we aren't all white middle class men) and the usual group of kids acting up and idiots who give the rest of us a bad name. But there's a lot of information available in the various technical forums as opposed to the political (which can get ugly, as political forums all over can do) and conversational (which can be either brilliant or scary or both simultaneously).
The two better ones in my opinion are www.thehighroad.org which is owned by a photographer (and Russian Jew, son of holocaust survivors) named Oleg Volk - his site www.a-human-right.com and actual art stuff is worth checking out as well - and www.thefiringline.com which is owned by a longtime gun industry writer and owner of SWAT magazine named Denny Hansen.
There are other fora out there that range from more technical to more idiotic, but there are few with a better depth of info than those two. Cruise on over and look at old threads and click on a few.
For technical knowledge there are a couple books/manual series you should be able to find in your library or used bookstore.
One is the Gun Digest's Firearms Assembly/Disassembly series. They are like the Chilton's for guns. There's nothing like seeing how to tear something down to figure out how it all works together. No need to buy them new.
http://www.amazon.com/Digest-Book-Firearms-Assembly-Disassembly/dp/0873417836
The second are the yearly Gun Digest's and Shooter's Bible's themselves. Collections of articles on various gun's histories and technical specs and listings of pretty much every gun offered each year.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b...ch-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=gun+digest
The NRA's American Rifleman magazine has a good mix of articles on new guns, old guns, gun maintenance and modification and politics as well. Other gun mags vary wildly in signal to noise.
I mentioned library and used for the gun books because they are reference books, read 'em and absorb them and move on, don't buy them new. While you are in the section you will also probably see various comprehensive histories of guns, B&N usually has some in their bargain racks, those can be a good overview as well. Heck, History Channel's "History of the Gun" is overall a pretty accurate resource.
The way most folks learn about guns, is as was said, hang out with gun people. Be aware though that there's as much nonsense circulated around gun shop counters as the old general store stove.
The modern "hanging out at the gun store" are the internet forums. Reading and lurking. There are some intelligent and thoughtful people of every stripe (political and otherwise, we aren't all white middle class men) and the usual group of kids acting up and idiots who give the rest of us a bad name. But there's a lot of information available in the various technical forums as opposed to the political (which can get ugly, as political forums all over can do) and conversational (which can be either brilliant or scary or both simultaneously).
The two better ones in my opinion are www.thehighroad.org which is owned by a photographer (and Russian Jew, son of holocaust survivors) named Oleg Volk - his site www.a-human-right.com and actual art stuff is worth checking out as well - and www.thefiringline.com which is owned by a longtime gun industry writer and owner of SWAT magazine named Denny Hansen.
There are other fora out there that range from more technical to more idiotic, but there are few with a better depth of info than those two. Cruise on over and look at old threads and click on a few.
