When I started collecting guns, an exciting early find was the Blue Book of Gun Values. My tattered copy accompanied me to every show or auction. When I formed Old Town Station to deal in collector firearms, I relied on the Blue Book of Gun Values for buying, selling, auction estimates, and research for my columns and articles. Now that I m heading up the NRA National Firearms Museum, I find that the Blue Book of Gun Values is still my single most used reference. It s the place to start, and stands the test of time. --Jim Supica, Director, National Firearms Museum
Any avid gun collector or dealer and reference holdings catering to them must own a copy of the Blue Book of Gun Values. The latest 32nd edition is even larger, packing in well over 2,000 pages of accurate information and updated values for antique and modern guns alike. It reflects the latest current information and lists a range of prices for all types of guns, making for a fine, specific key to the latest industry values and trends. --The Midwest Book Review, The Reference Shelf
Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate you sending me the new Blue Book of Gun Values every year. It just keeps getting bigger and better! --Jack Heath, retired
Remington Historian
Reader Reviews
The BlueBook of Gun Values is a yearly publication that I have purchased since the 1980's. In the early years of the publication, each new edition had updates of gun values that were pretty close to 'real-time' commercial prices. In the more recent years, the book does not do as good a job of keeping up with these values. Today the concentration seems to be more on adding new information about guns that were not previously in the book or about developmental history of various guns. All such information is of value to the collector, but most retailers and collectors have classically used the BlueBook as a 'bible' for pricing their items. The BlueBook, by not keeping up with price changes, has lost much of its value as a pricing guide. In the early days of the BlueBook, collectors and dealers could not wait for the new edition to come out. Today there is much complaining by these same people that "This year's book looks about the same as last year's book."
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