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JIC Archive · gun.jic.io · The world's firearms
Every firearm,
one archive.
A primary-source index of the world's guns — rifles, pistols, revolvers, shotguns, machine guns, submachine guns and the cartridges they fire — harvested from Wikipedia and Wikidata, normalized into one schema, with makers, calibers, service dates and images. And beyond the specs: the legends, cold facts and battlefield lore that make each gun a story.
00 — What this is
A reference, not a marketplace.
gun.jic.io indexes the world's firearms as an encyclopedia does — what a gun is, who made it, what it fires, when it served and where it came from. Every record is harvested from Wikipedia and Wikidata, normalized into one schema, and linked back to its source article. Nothing here is for sale; nothing here tells you how to build or acquire a weapon. It is a library of a technology that shaped history — read as history.
Sourced & linked
Every firearm links to its Wikipedia article and Wikidata entity. Facts — maker, designer, cartridge, service dates, production numbers — come from Wikidata's structured data, not from us.
Hand cannon → today
Six centuries of small arms: matchlocks and muskets, the revolvers of the American West, the rifles and machine guns of two World Wars, Cold-War Kalashnikovs and modern bullpups — and the cartridges that define them.
The stories, too
A gun is never only its dimensions. The archive carries the legends, cold facts, historical turning points and battlefield lore that specifications alone can never hold.
01 — Types
Fifteen classes, one index.
Counts update from the latest harvest. Click a type to filter the archive.
02 — Timeline
Six centuries of firepower.
Turning points in how the gun was invented, refined and reinvented. Each entry opens the matching firearms in the archive.
03 — Archive
Search the record.
Full-text search over names, makers, cartridges, countries and dates. Combine filters. Open any firearm for its full record, image and source links.
04 — Stories & cold facts
The lore behind the steel.
Legends, oddities, historical turning points and battlefield tales. The part of a gun's story the spec sheet can't hold.
05 — Rare on film
The rarest guns, caught on film.
The strangest, scarcest and most surprising firearms ever built — shown on video by the collectors, auction houses and museums that hold the surviving examples.
06 — Data
Open data. Open pipeline.
The whole catalog is static JSON you can download and reuse. Facts are drawn from Wikipedia and Wikidata, both freely licensed; the index and pipeline are released under CC0. The harvest pipeline (Python, no keys required) lives in the repository and can be re-run to pick up new entries.
Type shards
One file per type; compact keys (t name, k type, ds summary, ag maker, ca cartridge, cc country, u source URL, q Wikidata id).
Stories & video
The curated legends, cold facts and rare-gun videos, multilingual, with tags and linked firearms.
07 — Part of JIC
Why a gun archive belongs in the JIC continuum.
JIC — Just I Can — builds a positive-sum civilization for humans, agents and embodied intelligence, on a horizon of ten thousand years. Such a civilization needs shared, verifiable memory — including of the technologies that shaped it, for better and worse. gun.jic.io treats the firearm the way a museum does: documented, contextualized, made legible in every language, neither glorified nor erased. The same discipline runs through the JIC Canon, the XYZT spacetime record and the UFO archive.