howtofightwrite: Let’s see what I can do. Fair warning, there’s probably going to be a few very minor technical inaccuracies. I’m typing this off the top of my head. Gun: pretty much any gunpowder based weapon. This includes both hand… Read moreI’ve seen you write some really great in-depth things about firearms and most of it goes way over my head. There are words that I recognize as having to do with guns, and I have no idea what they mean. Any chance you could give kind of a brief Guns And Characters That Shoot Them 101 crash course for those of us who might work with characters that use guns and don’t want to sound like idiots while writing them, but aren’t necessarily going into the nitty-gritty details of gunfighting scenes?

howtofightwrite: Let’s see what I can do. Fair warning, there’s probably going to be a few very minor technical inaccuracies. I’m typing this off the top of my head. Gun: pretty much any gunpowder based weapon. This includes both hand… Read moreI’ve seen you write some really great in-depth things about firearms and most of it goes way over my head. There are words that I recognize as having to do with guns, and I have no idea what they mean. Any chance you could give kind of a brief Guns And Characters That Shoot Them 101 crash course for those of us who might work with characters that use guns and don’t want to sound like idiots while writing them, but aren’t necessarily going into the nitty-gritty details of gunfighting scenes?