Guns & Ammunition

Gun Education and Safety

by Brian Kevin

This title explores different types of guns--such as long guns and handguns--their components, and how they operate including different types actions such as pump, bolt, lever, automatic and break, and revolver. Ammunition such as bullets, shells, and cartridges are examined, broken down into their components, and how they each work is discussed. Special ammunition such as slugs and shot, dummies, and hollow points are introduced, as are important concepts such as caliber and bore. How to load ammunition into long guns and handguns including barrel, magazine, and self-load processes such as automatic and semi automatic is covered. How guns fire ammunition via various firing mechanisms is explained. Air guns, how they operate, and ammunition such as pellets and BBs are also examined. Automatic and assault guns and their regulation are also covered. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

I’m a writer who contributes to magazines, travel guidebooks, and the occasional website. I’m also a contributing editor at Down East magazine and the author of The Footloose American, forthcoming from Broadway Books in May of 2014.

I like the outdoors, public lands policy, American history, beer, people with interesting jobs, the Grateful Dead, and airport newsstands.

Some of my stories have been recognized in the Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing anthologies, and I’ve received a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. I grew up in Wisconsin and have lived in Minnesota, Montana, and Oregon. Home is currently a fishing village in Maine.

Oh yeah, and I really did write those gun books, which is kind of a funny story.