One of the most interesting areas of American gun collecting involves miniature firearms, where a major collection worth many thousands of dollars can easily fit inside a lunch box...and sometimes the best of historical designs can be nicely rendered in quarter-scale.
It’s fitting that a spectacular new book from the NRA’s National Firearms Museum is entitled “The Illustrated History of Firearms” (rather than “An Illustrated History”) because of the way it so completely and skillfully spans all important firearm milestones within a single, practical volume.