This is an article posted to the website Romance University, written by a weapons expert on the topic of travelling with weapons, a resource for writers. The article is US-centric.

http://romanceuniversity.org/2013/06/03/travelling-with-a-gun-by-weapons-expert-adam-firestone/

I need guns for two of my characters. Setting is near future Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I've read SL Huang's post on handguns and looked at various guns on Wikipedia ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern day USA. My character is using a spring airsoft pistol like this one (link SFW, if your workplace doesn't mind airsoft guns) as a prop. He has a high degree of knowledge in this area. Conditions are ideal, this is taking place indoors, and my character has done this preparation himself, taking as much time as he needs. No one else ( Read more... )

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Hi all! I've been an active Anon on here for a while--mostly on firearms topics--and I love this place! I just started a blog, and partly because of being active here I'm motivated to do an ongoing series on gun basics for writers (I work with firearms professionally). I've done one post so far (here (Read more... )

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Present-day US. Character is a 53-year-old man who breaks his arm pretty badly. I need to know when the earliest he could use his rifle with some degree of accuracy and also the safe estimate, how long a doctor would tell him to wait/heal before he can safely use his gun again. If it matters, he's probably going to wind up using a .270 Winchester. ( Read more... )

Hi, I've had a dig through the injuries to order tag and have a pretty good grip on the type of injuries I want but having have googled every variation I can think of around Gatling guns, ballistics, gun shot wounds, historic injuries I still can't make sense of the part about how someone would tell how the victim got injured. All I seem to get is ( Read more... )

Alright, I'm in the midst of a story where I'm in i situation where the main characters are put through the wringer. It's kind of a sci-fi/military fanfic piece that's also a 'fish out of water' story: one of the main characters is a USMC sergeant pulled over after an accident involving an experimental weapon ( Read more... )