Pratchett

I reread some Pratchett recently.  One of them has gun content.  Men at Arms.  And I need flog blodder.

It's a Discworld book.

For those 2 of you unfamiliar with this series, it's British, and funny, and a fantasy novel setting.   Fantasy means wizards and trolls and dwarves and swords and crossbows.  

There are guilds in the city.  The Seamstress Guild is the ladies of negotiable affection.  the Thieves Guild is in charge of stealing stuff.  If you pay them off they don't steal from YOU.  If you steal something and are not in the guild, the guild will come after you worse than the City Watch would.  The Assassins Guild is in charge of all the killing.  Well, the murdering.  You pay them and they do it for you.  You can get killed by committing suicide.  Like going into a bar and calling a Troll a Rocks-For-Brains or a Dwarf a Half-Man.  That's a good way to get yourself killed. 

Anyway, the Assassins Guild is full of toffs that like to get close to do their work.  But the equivalent of DaVinci invented a gun.  Or 'Gonne'.  Leonard of Quirm.  It's a 6 shot rifle/repeater.  It was confiscated long ago and the Assassins kept charge of it because the long range power offended their sensibilities. 

Well, the Gonne is sentient, a talisman of power, and Svengali's the current holder to kill even when they don't want to.  So, evil shennanigans happen. 

Remember, I said it was British.  From 1993.  That sort of firearms attitude can be found with those kinds of folks.  And it doesn't escape Terry Pratchett. 

It's not his best book, but it's still good, if you don't let that firearm detail get to you.  It's sort of the second City Watch book.  So read Guards Guards then this one and you are pretty much ready for the other of this stripe including the very good Night Watch.