Reddit reviews American Rifle: A Biography

I liked American Rifle: A Biography. It was written by the same author as the book that inspired the TV show Turn: Washington's Spies. Compared to most gun books it had a lot more narrative, not just dry technical and historical recitation of fact.

I really enjoyed The American Rifle: A Biography which is about American service rifles up until 20087 or so.

Just finished reading American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose. Although it does not touch on 2A (as you are looking for), it is an excellent historical read. The book starts with the Kentucky Rifle and goes all the way up through the M4, covering mostly US standard issue small arms.

American Rifle is a good introduction to US military rifles. The Gun is a fantastic introduction to automatic weapons (Chiver's blog is worth a read too). Wolfe Publishing has a deal where you can get PDF copies of their three Magazines for about the price of subscribing to one for physical copies. They are a bit old fashioned but aren't extended ad copy like G&A is. Shooting Times is worth looking at online.

Despite this video's great optimism, the M16 was borderline rejected by troops on the ground for unreliability and the need for constant cleaning. Many troops wouldn't give up their M1s or M14s. A fascinating book on the US service rifle is American Rifle.