Some of the best places to get your gun-oiled fingers on some gun blueprints can be hard to come by. We thought it would be a neat idea for us to search for your benefit and provide you with some advice about the best places to seek reliable prints while working within a limited budget. As this article is online, it shouldn’t be a problem for you that several of the places we thought were best for blueprints are online so you’ll definitely need access to a computer and modem!

A quick search for ‘firearm blueprints’ yielded some very positive results from the larger search engines.

WeaponsCombat is one of the best online sites for the publication of weapons blueprints and schematics. This internet site boasts a full range of firearms blueprints as well as invaluable advice on how to read the prints and how to go about making the gun for yourself. WeaponsCombat also offers and a ton of other useful and interesting e-books and articles about firearms and tactics.

If you have a great computer, you can probably afford the diskspace and try downloading the blueprints from sites like TorrentReactor which allows you to download files in bulk from their site and other related bit-torrent sites. However, this might not be the best idea for you if you’re not great with computers as you’ll not be able to inspect the file before downloading and, as with most torrents, you can easily download corrupted files which will disable your computer.

Alternatively, if you have a dinosaur computer that takes forever to load the large files, you could hit your public reference library and ask them if they have any or if they can run an inter-library loan from a copyright or military library. If you are tired of searching and are ready to pay, you could contact an armory or a weapons manufacturer as they should be able to provide you with a fresh or photographed copy for a concession.

One final site you might try is the best which we saved for last, the ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of weapons blueprints and schematics, the well-named FirearmsManuals. This site has a live community filled with people trading in and selling old and new firearms manuals, blueprints, models and ideas. not to mention a range of options to let you read print schematics for free and you can even buy sections of rare multi-page documents so you only pay for what you want and not for the entire thing which might include a lot of padding. Probably one of the most effective in the genre, this site provides exactly what its domain name suggests.