First off, the author has no sense of style. Imagine in your mind the too plain style used in all Paladium Books publications. Now strip it to its barest bones. That's what this book is; one font in various sizes (mostly large to pad the page count), a few pics, and black bordered text boxes.

Next we have the "interview" of a fictitious ex-marine turned shooting instructor. This character spits out one incredibly bad piece of advice, "Buy Jacketed Hollowpoints". As an ex-marine, this character should know that the only bullets legal on the battlefield are full metal jackets, and to that end, while he may prefer JHP, he should tend to stick to the government line of "buy FMJ". And as a shooting instructor, he should know that possession of JHP rounds is illegal in quite a few places throughout the United States, yet does not mention this.

Third, we have the excess complication. It's like the author raided Cyberpunk 2020's Solo of Fortune books and Chromebook books and adapted all the gun enhancements to D20. D20 Modern is intentionally coarse and narrow in enhancements to prevent the appearance of "uber-guns" that will destroy a game campaign. This entire section of rules on gun "tuning" reintroduce the uber-gun factor. And I don't want to hear any comparisons to magic items; in D20, you're lucky if the biggest cities will have enough spellcasters capable of making magic items that you use all the fingers on one hand while counting them. On the flip side, the biggest cities will have dozens, if not hundreds of gunsmiths perfectly capable of making any of these modifications to a weapon, and that doesn't include the run-of-the-mill machinists who are also capable of making these modifications behind the government's back!

Last, we have an actual section on guns! This book provides you a whopping 26 guns, the scrawniest selection I have seen anywhere. Every one of them is described with 50 words or less. The "guns per buck" ratio on this book is less than 1/3 that of other books.

Overall, I find this book extremely disappointing. Maybe if the first two issues of this series where combined into a single book, I might consider it an average product.

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