Description: I've known Stan Skinner for a lot of years and it's safe to say, if there's anything out there that shoots, he's probably shot it. Most of us will never have access to the types of exotic hardware Stan has had his hands on, but with his Guide to Extreme Iron: An Illustrated Reference to Some of the World's Most Powerful Weapons, from Hand Cannons of Field Artillery , he's given us armchair aficionados the next best thing. Express rifles, submachine guns, heavy machine guns, Gatling guns, miniguns, suppressed firearms- even field artillery pieces such as the Parrot Rifle of Civil War fame are featured. If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to cut loose with a drum-fed Lewis Gun or 7.62x25 Russian PPSh-41, it's all here. Stan covers the biggest and baddest in handguns in the appropriately titled Hand Cannons" chapter. And his chapter on submachine guns covers stalwarts from the legendary Thompson, M3 Grease Gun," German MP-40 on up to a true machine pistol"- a select-fire 9mm Glock 18. In fact, if you are seriously interested in owning Class III weaponry your own self," there's a chapter that lays the application process out in step-by-step details. But you'd best have a case of wallet overload" if you're serious- a couple of bursts with a .50 BMG M2 Ma Deuce" will easily set you back a car payment or three. And that's not even getting anywhere close to counting the initial tariff on Browning's unsurpassed heavy MG platform itself. The chapter on suppressed and night-vision firearms is very timely in view of their increasing popularity. Not to mention the utility of such combos in fulfilling hog-eradication duties in places like Texas. Stan is always a pleasure to read when he gets his teeth into something. And in this case he has. Payton Miller, Guns Magazine

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