Guns Recognition Guide, Jane's 5th ed. - Media Review
Richard D. Jones & Andrew White - Smithsonian
464 pages - paperback - 2008
397+ firearm identifications
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The Games - Medic!
The drop had been the worst he had ever seen. Those re-entry pods that
hadn’t scattered in the thick atmosphere of the planet had been subject
to withering ground fire. Only sixty-percent of the battalion had
reached the ground. It was a wonder, thought the Corporal Barnes, that
he’d survived at all.
Now, crouched in a narrow alleyway, he
wondered how long that would last. The city around him had grown up
haphazardly, thrown together by successive waves of colonists using
whatever materials they had available. Unplanned, unmapped, it was a
rat’s warren of used cargo containers, recycled deep-space tug hulls,
gutted drive housings, and every size and shape of metal and plastic
scrap imaginable. It is also, he reflected, a friggin' deathtrap.
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